Meeting Venue:
Hybrid –
Committee Room 4, Ty Hywel
and video
conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 4 March 2026
Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:
Sarah Beasley
Committee Clerk
0300 200
6565
SeneddHealth@senedd.wales
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Private
pre-meeting
(9.00-9.30)
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Public
meeting
(09.30-10.15)
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1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions,
and declarations of interest
(09.30)
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Pre-appointment hearing for the role of
Chair of Social Care Wales: evidence session with the Welsh
Government's preferred candidate
(09.30-10.15)
(Pages 1 - 33)
Katija Dew, Welsh Government’s preferred
candidate for the role of Chair of Social Care Wales.
Research brief
Paper 1 – Pre-appointment hearing
questionnaire
Paper 2 – Welsh Government briefing
Paper 3 – Information for candidates
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3
Papers to note
(10.15)
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3.1 Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social
Care re Welsh Government 2026-27 draft budget
(Pages 34 - 35)
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3.2 Response from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and
Social Care re Welsh Government 2026-27 draft budget
(Pages 36 - 47)
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3.3 Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and
Social Care Committee to the Petitions Committee re: P-06-1456 -
Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer (EMRTS) services in North
Wales
(Pages 48 - 49)
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3.4 Letter from the Auditor General for Wales re
Challenges and opportunities for Welsh public services
(Pages 50 - 66)
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3.5 Letter to the Minister for Children & Social Care
re the inquiry into improving access to support for unpaid
carers
(Pages 67 - 71)
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3.6 Response from the Minister for Children & Social
Care re the inquiry into improving access to support for unpaid
carers
(Pages 72 - 76)
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4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi)
and (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of
today’s meeting and for the meeting on 11 March 2026, for
consideration of the draft report on improving access to support
for unpaid carers and the draft report on the future of general
practice in Wales
(10.15)
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Private
meeting
(10.15-11.30)
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5
Pre-appointment hearing: consideration of
evidence and draft report
(10.15-10.30)
(Pages 77 - 81)
Paper 4 – Draft report
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6
Inquiry into the future of general
practice in Wales: consideration of draft report
(10.30-11.30)
(Pages 82 - 172)
Paper 5 - Inquiry into the future of general
practice in Wales: draft report
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