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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)

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)

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)

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)

7 Papers relating to the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

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Meeting: 15/12/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)

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)

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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Meeting: 21/09/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2)

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)

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)

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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Meeting: 27/04/2022 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 2.2)

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)

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)

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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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.

Responses and Report

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.

Responses and Report

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

 


Meeting: 17/11/2021 - Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee (Item 4)

4 Barriers to the successful Implementation of the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015: Consideration of responses to Reports

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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)

3 Barriers to the successful Implementation of the Well-Being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015

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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.