Agenda and minutes

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1.1       The Chair welcomed the Members to Committee.

1.2       Apologies were received from Alun Ffred Jones. Jocelyn Davies substituted.

2.1 The papers were noted.

PAC(4)-12-14 (paper 1)

PAC(4)-12-14 (paper 2)

3.1 The Committee considered the response from the Welsh Government and noted that it did not provide information on the cost of pay protection in NHS Wales (Recommendation 12).  Members asked the Auditor General to look at this issue in the further work he has undertaken to do.  

Research Brief

Mark Jones, Principal Gower College & Chair Colegau Cymru

4.1 The Committee questioned Mark Jones,  Principal Gower College & Chair Colegau Cymru, on Senior Management Pay.

4.2 Mark Jones agreed to send the following information:

·       Further detail on how the figures for St David’s Catholic College and Coleg Gwent were reached

·       What constitutes a ‘benefit in kind’

·       Latest benchmark report from the Association of Colleges

Items 6 & 7

5.1 The motion was agreed.

6.1 Members considered the evidence received.

6.2 Members asked that the Research Service and /or the WAO consider whether the merging of colleges has led to a step up in principals’s pay.

PAC(4)-12-14 (paper 3)

7.1 Subject to a minor change, Members agreed the draft report.