Agenda and minutes

Venue: Committee Room 3 - Senedd

Contact: Policy: Tom Jackson 

Items
Expected timing No. Item

(9:00 - 9:05)

1.

Introductions, apologies and substitutions

Minutes:

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members and members of the public to the meeting.

 

(9:05 - 10:00)

2.

Issues arising from the findings of the Wales Audit Office report 'Caldicot and Wentlooge Levels Internal Drainage Board'

Via Video Conference: Audit Commission (9:05 – 9:30)

David Aldous, Associate Controller – Audit Technical Services, Audit Commission

 

Wales Audit Office (9:30 – 10:00)

PAC(4) 17-13 – Paper 1

Anthony Barrett, Assistant Auditor General for Wales, Wales Audit Office

Mike Usher, Technical Director for Financial Audit, Wales Audit Office

David Rees, Governance Manager, Wales Audit Office

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Audit Commission

 

2.1 The Chair welcomed David Aldous, Associate Controller of Audit Technical Services, Audit Commission

 

2.2 The Committee scrutinised the witness.

 

Wales Audit Office

 

2.3 The Chair welcomed Anthony Barrett, Assistant Auditor General for Wales, Mike Usher, Technical Director for Financial Audit and David Rees, Governance Manager, from the Wales Audit Office.

 

2.4 The Committee scrutinised the witnesses.

 

Action Points:

 

2.5 The witnesses were asked to provide:

 

·         A note on when Newport Internal Audit became involved in investigating concerns about the Drainage Board; and

·         A note on the escalation options available to auditors.

 

 

 

3.

Papers to note

PAC(4) 17-13 (p2) Correspondence from Dean Jackson Johns to Assistant Auditor General for Wales - August 2012

 

PAC(4) 17-13 (p3) Correspondence from National Audit Office to Assistant Auditor General for Wales

 

Work programme – summer 2013

 

Minutes of the previous meeting.

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

3.1 The Committee noted:

·         Correspondence from Dean Jackson Johns to the Assistant Auditor General for Wales;

·         Correspondence from the National Audit Office to the Assistant Auditor General for Wales;

·         The Committee’s Summer 2013 work programme.

4.

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

Items 5 and 6.

Minutes:

Items 5 and 6

(10:00 - 10:20)

5.

Consideration of evidence on issues arising from the findings of the Wales Audit Office report 'Caldicot and Wentlooge Levels Internal Drainage Board'

Minutes:

5.1 Members discussed the evidence heard during their inquiry

(10:20 - 11:00)

6.

Consideration of draft Committee report 'Civil Emergencies in Wales'

Minutes:

6.1 Members discussed amendments to their draft report, and agreed that a final text of their report would be formally agreed via e-mail.

Transcript

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