Grants Management in Wales
Grants Management in Wales
The Auditor General published his report Grants Management in Wales 2011 in November 2011. In his report, the Auditor General commented that grants administration costs are relatively high and that many grants are poorly managed, with funders and recipients failing to learn from past mistakes. However, he also found clear evidence of a desire by some funders to improve.
The Public Accounts Committee undertook an inquiry into the issues raised by his report.
The Committee published an interim report on Grants Management in Wales in August 2012 and a final report in June 2013.
The Committee has scrutinised the Welsh Government’s Annual
Grant Management Report in a series of evidence sessions between March 2014 and
February 2016. Those sessions drew on the content of the Welsh Government’s
annual reports on grants management for 2013, 2014 and 2015 which were
published as part of its response to the recommendations from the Committee’s
work.
The Committee recommended in its Legacy Report that the
successor Committee continues to scrutinise the Welsh Government’s progress in
improving grants management, drawing on the Welsh Government’s annual reporting
and reflecting on any new evidence on grants management arising from the
Auditor General’s work or other concerns that are brought to the Committee’s
attention.
Business type: Committee Inquiry
Status: Complete
First published: 11/04/2013
Documents
- Letter from the Permanent Secretary - 29 March 2016 PDF 424 KB
- Public Accounts Committee Report - June 2013
- Welsh Government Response - July 2013
- Wales Audit Office Interim report - August 2012 PDF 813 KB
- Wales Audit Office Interim Report - Welsh Government response PDF 121 KB View as HTML (5) 46 KB
- The Welsh Government's relationship with the All Wales Ethnic Minority Association PDF 704 KB
- Correspondence from WCVA - January 2013 PDF 116 KB View as HTML (7) 21 KB