Concise Minutes - Public Accounts Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 - Senedd

Meeting date: Monday, 28 January 2019

Meeting time: 13.18 - 16.55
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/5047.tv/

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Attendance

Category	Names
Assembly Members:	Nick Ramsay AM (Chair) Mohammad Asghar (Oscar) AM Neil Hamilton AM Rhianon Passmore AM Adam Price AM Jenny Rathbone AM Vikki Howells AM
Witnesses:	Dr Andrew Goodall, Welsh Government Alan Brace, Welsh Government Simon Dean, Welsh Government Jo Jordan, Welsh Government
Wales Audit Office:	Adrian Crompton – Auditor General for Wales Matthew Mortlock Dave Thomas Mike Usher
Committee Staff:	Fay Bowen (Clerk) Meriel Singleton (Second Clerk) Claire Griffiths (Deputy Clerk) Stephen Boyce (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the Committee and welcomed Vikki Howells AM back following her recent election. He thanked Jack Sargeant AM for his contributions.

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2 Paper(s) to note

2.1 The papers were noted.

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2.1 Implementation of the NHS Finance (Wales) Act 2014: Letter from the Welsh Government (7 January 2019)

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2.2 Scrutiny of Accounts 2017-18: Letter from the Permanent Secretary, Welsh Government (14 January 2019)

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2.3 The Welsh Government's Supporting People Programme: Letter from the Welsh Government (15 January 2019)

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3 Governance Review of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Lessons learnt - Evidence session with the Welsh Government

3.1 Members received evidence from Dr Andrew Goodall, Director General of Health and Social Services and Chief Executive NHS Wales; Simon Dean, Deputy Chief Executive NHS Wales; Jo Jordan, Director of Mental Health, NHS Governance & Corporate Services; and Alan Brace, Director of Finance, Welsh Government as part of the inquiry into Lessons learnt from the Governance Review of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

3.2 Dr Goodall agreed to send an analysis of the BCUHB staff survey which shows the level of improvement over the last three years. He also agreed to send details of staff surveys from other health boards to provide a picture across Wales.

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4 Care experienced children and young people: Welsh Government response to the Committee's Report

4.1 Members considered the response and it was agreed that the Chair would write to the Welsh Government seeking clarification on a number of issues.

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5 Natural Resources Wales: Responses to the Committee's Report

5.1 Members considered the responses to the report and noted that Natural Resources Wales were scheduled to attend Committee on 11 February.

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6 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:

6.1 The motion was agreed.

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7 Governance Review of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board: Lessons learnt - Consideration of Evidence Received

7.1 Members considered the evidence received.

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8 The Welsh Government’s relationship with Pinewood: Consideration of draft Report

8.1 Members considered the draft report. It was agreed that a further version would be emailed to them, for agreement, later this week.

8.2 Members agreed to hold a plenary debate on the Report.

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9 Scrutiny of Accounts 2017-18: Consideration of draft report

9.1 Members considered the draft report and due to time constraints, agreed to return to it at the next meeting.

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