Meetings

Inquiry into influencing the modernisation of European procurement policy

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

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Meeting: 09/07/2015 - Enterprise and Business Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)

4 Follow-up to actions derived from the meeting of 17 June on Public Procurement

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Minutes:

4.1.1 The paper was noted by the Committee.


Meeting: 17/06/2015 - Enterprise and Business Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)

2 Public Procurement

Dr Rachel Bowen, Policy Manager, Federation of Small Businesses

Iestyn Davies, Senior Head of External Affairs (Devolved Nations), Federation of Small Businesses

Gareth Coles, Public Service Delivery Officer, Wales Council for Voluntary Action

Rhodri Jones, Chair, Wales Construction Federation Alliance

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Minutes:

2.1 Dr Rachel Bowen, Iestyn Davies, Gareth Coles and Rhodri Jones answered questions from Members of the Committee.


Meeting: 17/06/2015 - Enterprise and Business Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)

4 Public Procurement

Jane Hutt, Minister for Finance and Government Business

Kerry Stephens, Deputy Director - Procurement, Value Wales

Julie Harrison, Senior Stakeholder Manager, National Procurement Service

Jeff Andrews, Specialist Policy Adviser, Welsh Government

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Minutes:

4.1 Jane Hutt AM, the Minister for Finance and Government Business, Kerry Stephens, Nick Sullivan and Jeff Andrews answered questions from Members of the Committee.

4.2 The Minister for Finance and Government Business agreed to provide the following:

·         A note on the implications of the new general designation for public procurement that the Welsh Government has secured from the UK Government.

·         The Minister offered to respond in writing to Mohammad Asghar’s question about whether the NHS could save money by upgrading expensive machinery, rather than replacing it when relatively new, but obsolete due to technological advances.


Meeting: 17/06/2015 - Enterprise and Business Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 3)

3 Public Procurement

Christopher Chapman, Programme Manager, Welsh Local Government Association

Mark Roscrow, NHS Shared Services Partnership

Howard Allaway, Procurement Manager, Higher Education Purchasing Consortium, Wales

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Minutes:

3.1 Christopher Chapman, Mark Roscrow and Howard Allaway answered questions from Members of the Committee.


Meeting: 18/07/2012 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly (Item 7.)

Debate on the Enterprise and Business Committee's report: Influencing the Modernisation of EU Procurement Policy

NDM5042 Nick Ramsay (Monmouth)

 

The National Assembly for Wales:

 

Notes the Report of the Enterprise and Business Committee: Influencing the Modernisation of EU Procurement Policy which was laid in the Table Office on 14 May 2012.

 

Note: The response of the Minister for Finance and the Leader of the House to the report which was laid in the Table Office on 11 July 2012.

 

Supporting documents:

Report of the Enterprise and Business Committee

Response of the Minister for Finance and the Leader of the House

Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee - Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Public Procurement

Decision:

The item started at 16.20


NDM5042 Nick Ramsay (Monmouth)

 

The National Assembly for Wales:

 

Notes the Report of the Enterprise and Business Committee: Influencing the Modernisation of EU Procurement Policy which was laid in the Table Office on 14 May 2012.

 

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.


Meeting: 02/05/2012 - Enterprise and Business Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4)

Influencing the Modernisation of EU Procurement Policy - Discussion of Draft Report

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Minutes:

4.1 The committee agreed the report subject to a few minor amendments.


Meeting: 12/03/2012 - Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 5.1)

5.1 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Public Procurement

Papers:

CLA(4)-06-12(p1) –Letter from the Chair to the Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee Mr William Cash MP dated 23 February 2012

CLA(4)-06-12(p2) – Response from the Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee Mr William Cash MP dated 29 February 2012

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Meeting: 20/02/2012 - Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 4.)

4. European Commission draft proposal for a directive on public procurement - Possible Subsidiarity Issue

Papers:

CLA(4)-04-12(p1) - Letter from the Chair of the Enterprise and Business Committee dated 7 February 2012

 

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