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Barriers to the successful Implementation of the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
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Meeting: 05/07/2023 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)
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2 Letter from Permanent Secretary to Chair of Equality and Social Justice Committee on Welsh Government and Future Generations Commissioner working
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Meeting: 22/06/2023 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)
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2 Letter from the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip on implementing the recommendations of the Fifth Senedd Public Accounts Committee report: Delivering for Future Generations – the story so far
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Meeting: 03/05/2023 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)
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- Transcript for 03/05/2023 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
2 Letter from the Minister for Social Justice to the Chair of the Equality and Social Justice Committee on the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
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Meeting: 26/01/2023 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 7)
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7 Papers relating to the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales
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- Restricted enclosure 15 , View reasons restricted (7/1)
Meeting: 15/12/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)
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2 Letter from the Minister for Social Justice - Update on the Welsh Government's Progress in Implementing recommendations from the Public Accounts Committee (5th Senedd) report on 'Delivering for Future Generations: The story so far'
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Meeting: 19/10/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)
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2 Letters in relation to the Auditor General for Wales's examination of the setting of Welsh Government’s well-being objectives
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- PAPA(6)-14-22 PTN2 - Letter from AGW to WG on well-being objectives - e, item 2 PDF 793 KB
- PAPA(6)-14-22 PTN3 - WG response to AGW Well-being Objectives - e, item 2 PDF 852 KB
Meeting: 21/09/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)
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2 Letter from Auditor General to Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government: Examination of the setting of well-being objectives - 1 September 2022
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Meeting: 16/06/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)
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2 Update on the Welsh Government’s progress in implementing the recommendations provided in the Public Accounts Committee (5th Senedd) report Delivering for Future Generations – the story so far.
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Meeting: 27/04/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2.3)
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- Transcript for 27/04/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
2.3 Annual scrutiny of the Future Generations Commissioner: an update - Letter from the Chair of the Equality and Social Justice Committee (7 April 2022)
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- PAPAC(6)-05-22 PTN4 - Letter from Chair of ESJ on FGC, item 2.3 PDF 685 KB
- PAPAC(6)-05-22 PTN4a - Annex 1 ESJ Committee report on WFG Commissioner, item 2.3 PDF 842 KB
Meeting: 27/04/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2.2)
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2.2 Barriers to the successful implementation of the Well-being of Future Generations Act: Letter from the Minister for Social Justice (7 March 2022)
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Meeting: 09/03/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)
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2 Barriers to the successful Implementation of the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015: Letter from the Chair of the Equality and Social Justice Committee to the Minister for Social Justice (15 February 2022)
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Meeting: 09/02/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 5)
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5 Barriers to the successful Implementation of the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015: Letter from the Future Generations Commissioner (19 January 2022)
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Minutes:
5.1 The paper was noted.
Meeting: 24/11/2021 - Plenary (Item 7)
Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee and Equality and Social Justice Committee debate: Well-being of Future of Generations Act 2015: Scrutiny of implementation
NDM7841
Mark Isherwood
(North Wales)
Jenny Rathbone
(Cardiff Central)
To propose that the
Senedd:
Notes:
a) the Report of
the Public Accounts Committee of the Fifth Senedd, Delivering for Future
Generations: The story so far, laid in the
Table Office 17 March 2021;
b) the Welsh
Government response to the Committee’s Report, published on 5 October 2021;
c) the Auditor
General for Wales’s response to the Committee’s Report, dated August 2021;
d) the Future
Generations Commissioner for Wales’s response to the Committee’s Report dated 3
September 2021;
e) the Llywydd’s
response to the Committee’s Report dated 22 September 2021;
f) the Welsh
Government response to the Auditor General for Wales’s Report, So, what’s
different? Findings from the Auditor General’s Sustainable Development
Principle Examinations, dated 8 October 2021; and
g) the Welsh
Government response to the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales’s Report,
The Future Generations Report 2020, dated 8 October 2021.
Minutes:
The item started at 16.15
NDM7841
Mark Isherwood (North Wales)
Jenny Rathbone (Cardiff Central)
To
propose that the Senedd:
Notes:
a) the
Report of the Public Accounts Committee of the Fifth Senedd, Delivering for
Future Generations: The story so far, laid in
the Table Office 17 March 2021;
b) the
Welsh Government response to the Committee’s Report, published on 5 October
2021;
c) the
Auditor General for Wales’s response to the Committee’s Report, dated August
2021;
d) the
Future Generations Commissioner for Wales’s response to the Committee’s Report
dated 3 September 2021;
e) the
Llywydd’s response to the Committee’s Report dated 22 September 2021;
f) the
Welsh Government response to the Auditor General for Wales’s Report, So, what’s
different? Findings from the Auditor General’s Sustainable Development
Principle Examinations, dated 8 October 2021; and
g) the
Welsh Government response to the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales’s
Report, The Future Generations Report 2020, dated 8 October 2021.
The
motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
Meeting: 17/11/2021 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 4)
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4 Barriers to the successful Implementation of the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015: Consideration of responses to Reports
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 53 , View reasons restricted (4/1)
- PAPAC(6)-05-21 P1 - FGC- Response from Auditor General Wales, item 4 PDF 2 MB
- PAPAC(6)-05-21 P1A - FGC -Response from FCG, item 4 PDF 2 MB
- PAPAC(6)-05-21 P1B - Response from Llywydd, item 4 PDF 1 MB
- PAPAC(6)-05-21 P1C - Welsh Government response, item 4 PDF 2 MB
- PAPAC(6)-05-21 P1D - Letter from Welsh Government, item 4 PDF 2 MB
- PAPAC(6)-05-21 P1E - Welsh Government response to Auditor General, item 4 PDF 925 KB
- PAPAC(6)-05-21 P1F - Welsh Governemnt response to Future Generations Commissioner, item 4 PDF 782 KB
- PAPAC(6)-05-21 P1G -Letter from the Permanent Secretary to the Committee Chair, item 4 PDF 1 MB
Minutes:
4.1 The Committee considered and discussed the responses to all the previous Committee’s Report together with the Welsh Government responses to the Auditor General for Wales and Future Generations Commissioner Reports, which were published in May 2020.
4.2 Members also discussed the ‘accept in principle’ issue regarding Committee recommendations.
4.3 Members noted the plenary debate scheduled for 24 November on the implementation of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015.
Meeting: 06/10/2021 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 3)
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- Transcript for 06/10/2021 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
3 Barriers to the successful Implementation of the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 65 , View reasons restricted (3/1)
- PAPAC(6)-03-21 P2 - Future Generations Commissioner - Response from Audit Wales, item 3 PDF 712 KB
- PAPAC(6)-03-21 P2A - Response from Future Generations Commissioner, item 3 PDF 959 KB
- PAPAC(6)-03-21 P2B - Response from Llywydd, item 3 PDF 666 KB
- PAPAC(6)-03-21 P2C - Welsh Government response, item 3 PDF 970 KB
- PAPAC(6)-03-21 P2D - Letter from Welsh Government on delivering to Future Generations, item 3 PDF 1 MB
Minutes:
3.1 The Members discussed the responses to the Report.
3.2 The Chair agreed to write to the Permanent Secretary, Welsh Government regarding the practice of ‘accept in principle’ in response to the Committee’s recommendations.
3.3 The Chair agreed to write to the Chair of the Equality & Social Justice Committee with the responses and requesting that we give consideration to how the two Committees can work together on this issue.
3.4 The Committee agreed to table a further debate to enable the responses to the Report to be debated.