Agenda item

Research Briefing

PAC(5)-18-17 Paper 1 – Auditor General for Wales Report

PAC(5)-18-17 Paper 2 – Welsh Government response to the Auditor General for Wales Report

PAC(5)-18-17 Paper 3 – Letter from the Welsh Government (16 June 2017)

PAC(5)-18-17 Paper 4 – Letter from the Welsh Government (21 June 2017)

PAC(5)-18-17 Paper 4A - Letter from the Committee Chair to the Welsh Government (21 June 2017)

PAC(5)-18-17 Paper 4B - Letter from the Welsh Government to the Committee Chair (23 June 2017)

PAC(5)-18-17 Paper 4C - Letter from the Committee Chair to the Welsh Government (23 June 2017)

James Price – Deputy Permanent Secretary, Economy, Skills and Natural Resources Group, Welsh Government

Tracey Mayes - Head of Governance and Compliance, Economy, Skills and Natural Resources Group, Welsh Government

3.1The Chair made an opening statement regarding the recent correspondence between the Welsh Government and himself.

3.2 The Committee scrutinised James Price, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Economy, Skills and Natural Resources Group, and Tracey Mayes, Head of Governance and Compliance, Economy, Skills and Natural Resources Group, Welsh Government on the Welsh Government's initial funding of the Circuit of Wales Project.

3.3 James Price agreed to:

·       Write to the Committee with clarification on the total expenditure incurred and the funding the Welsh Government has put in to date;  

·       Send the internal guidance officials adhere to when assessing grant applications;

·       Provide further details, following the Cabinets’ decision on funding the Circuit of Wales project, on the due diligence process carried out; and

·       Investigate who from the Welsh Government made the comment on a press statement about ‘grandstanding’ and advise the Chair.