Finance Committee

Y Pwyllgor Cyllid

To Consultees

Cardiff Bay Cardiff CF99 1NA 9 October 2012

A call for evidence – Invest to Save

The Finance Committee is calling for information to help inform our inquiry into the Welsh Government’s Invest to Save Fund.  The Fund is available to Welsh Government funded public service organisations to support their strategic improvement projects which lead to significant cash-releasing efficiency savings, while ensuring effective citizen-centred services.

The inquiry’s Terms of Reference

The purpose of this inquiry is to consider how effective the Invest to Save Fund has been to date. We are particularly interested to learn whether the fund is working, and if so, are projects being copied across the relevant sector?

The Committee would welcome your views on any or all of the following points:

· What impact is Invest to Save having, is it meeting it’s intended purpose  - “supporting organisations involved in public service delivery make the transition to more efficient, more effective and more sustainable forms of service delivery”?

· How widely has it been taken up?

· What are the lessons learned and could examples of good practice be shared and extended more widely across the public sector?

· What savings have been achieved as a result of awards from the fund?

§ Are there any barriers to entry i.e. are there any elements of the Invest to Save fund process that make it difficult to participate in the scheme?

Providing information to the Committee

Interested parties are invited to submit written evidence to the Clerk of the Finance Committee at the above address, to arrive by Tuesday 6 November 2012. If you wish to contribute but are concerned that you won’t be able to meet this deadline, please speak with the Clerk of the Committee on 029 2089 8409.

If possible, please supply an electronic version in MS Word or Rich Text format, by e mail to FinanceCommittee@wales.gov.uk by Tuesday 6 November 2012.

Disclosure of Information

Witnesses should be aware that once written evidence has been submitted to the Committee it is treated as the property of the Committee.

The Committee welcomes contributions in English or Welsh, and we ask organisations with Welsh Language policies/schemes to provide bilingual submissions, in line with their public information policies.

It is the Committee’s intention to place written evidence on its website, and it may subsequently be printed with the report. The National Assembly will not publish information which it considers to be personal data with the exception of personal opinion and personal data relating to your identity as author of the evidence and the capacity, if any, in which you provide the evidence (for example, a job title).

However, in the event of a request for information (which includes personal data) being submitted under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, it may be necessary to disclose, in whole or in part,  personal data that you provide. This may include personal data which has previously been removed by the National Assembly for publication purposes (as described in the paragraph above).

If you are providing any information, other than personal data, which you feel is not suitable for public disclosure, or if you do not wish your identity, as author of the evidence, to be disclosed, this must be clearly identified and it is up to you to stipulate which parts should not be published, and to provide a reasoned argument to support this. The National Assembly will take this into account when publishing information or responding to requests for information.

Further information about the Finance Committee and its call for information can be found at: www.assemblywales.org

Yours sincerely

Jocelyn Davies

Chair, Finance Committee

Annex 1

	Local Authorities & LEAs.
	Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council
	Bridgend County Borough Council
	Caerphilly County Borough Council
	Cardiff County Council
	Carmarthenshire County Council
	Ceredigion County Council
	City and County of Swansea
	Conwy County Borough Council
	Denbighshire County Council
	Flintshire County  Council
	Gwynedd Council
	Isle of Anglesey County Council
	Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
	Monmouthshire County Council
	Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
	Newport City Council
	Pembrokeshire County Council
	Powys County Council
	Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council
	Torfaen County Borough Council
	Vale of Glamorgan Council
	Wrexham County Borough Council WLGA
	Local Health Boards
	Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board
	Aneurin Bevan Health Board
	Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
	Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
	Cwm Taf Local Health Board
	Hywel Dda Local Health Board
Powys Teaching Health Board All Wales Ambulance NHS Trust
The Welsh NHS Confederation
	General
	Forestry Commission Wales
	Countryside Council for Wales Environment Agency for Wales
	Care Council for Wales
	Children's Commissioner for Wales
	Older People’s Commissioner for Wales
	Equality and Human Rights Commission
	Welsh Language Board
	Welsh Local Government Association
	Wales Council Voluntary Action National Botanic Garden of Wales Carbon Trust and Energy Saving Trust WEFO
	Universities
	Aberystwyth University
	Swansea University
	University of Glamorgan
	Bangor University
	Cardiff University Newport University Cardiff Metropolitan University Swansea Metropolitan University UW Trinity St David Glyndwr University Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
	Further Education Colleges
	South East Wales
	Barry College
	Bridgend College
	Coleg Morgannwg
	Coleg Gwent
	Merthyr Tydfil College
	Ystrad Mynach College
	South and West Wales
	Coleg Sir Gâr
	Neath Port Talbot College
	Pembrokeshire College
	Swansea College
	Mid Wales
	Coleg Ceredigion
	Coleg Powys
	North Wales
	Coleg Harlech
	Coleg Llandrillo Cymru
	Coleg Menai
	Deeside College
	Yale College Wrexham