, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Covering Teachers' Absence: evidence session with Welsh Government
Within the current contract, there are great variations in the fees that are levied by the agencies themselves. Is that great variation related mainly to the different levels of profit that the agencies make, and if so, in your new framework contract, are you…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Covering Teachers' Absence: evidence session with Welsh Government
How are you going to reflect, for example, the decision to bring to an end this idea of the national supply pool? How is that going to be reflected in any changes that you make?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Covering Teachers' Absence: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you, Chair, and good morning to you. I want to turn now to the new framework contract, when the current contract comes to an end in the summer of 2027. So, when exactly will you be starting the formal work on the successor contract?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Paper to note
Yes, let's invite them, then.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Paper to note
Personally, I think that it is worth asking Industry Wales to appear before us, because I think that this matter does raise some very serious questions that are broader than just pertaining to this particular organisation. So, maybe that's something that we…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Paper to note
Yes, I do, and they don't relate to the audit matter that the auditor general has just discussed, but to the broader question surrounding the dissolution of the organisation, which the Welsh Government claim was unrelated to the audit matter. And I think they…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
Clause 11 of the Bill creates a new criminal offence of misleading the public by Ministers and public authorities. As currently drafted, it doesn't apply to Welsh Ministers or public authorities in Wales as regards devolved functions. That's why, in your…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
The report depicts a situation that is soberingly poor, with data either being limited or not available at all in key areas such as prevalence, trends over time, outcomes, expenditure and workforce, to such an extent that the report says that often users look…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
7. Will the First Minister make a statement on the Welsh Government's response to the Office for Statistics Regulation's review on mental health data in Wales? OQ63708
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
Okay. On that basis, I'm content to support the amendments.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
So, for example, you might have inadvertently deleted a section within previous legislation and, inadvertently, in doing so, you've actually prevented yourself from availing—[Inaudible.]
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
Right. And it doesn't in any way expand the scope of any—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
I'm grateful if somebody can understand my question, let alone give me an answer.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 2: Transitional and saving provisions (Amendments 20, 21, 22)
Yes. Just in relation to amendment 20, it does seem quite broad and, from what you were saying there, it's deliberately so because there might be bits of re-enacted or consolidated legislation that interrelate with other Bills that you haven't mapped yet, and…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 1: Consequential amendments to enactments (Amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
Fine. Okay, with that clarification, I'm happy and content to support the amendments in this group.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 1: Consequential amendments to enactments (Amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
Fine. It's not that we don't want Welsh Ministers to have powers—
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 1: Consequential amendments to enactments (Amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
No, amendment 8, if I'm on the right one, which relates to grants for education and training, if I'm correct here.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Group 1: Consequential amendments to enactments (Amendments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
Just very briefly, amendment 8, which you just referred to in summary, which relates to section 304 of the 1990 Act that you referred to, about relating to grants for research and education, could you just walk us through that again? You seem to have had a…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
And there are no interim reports in terms of the different phases during Pegasus. You're waiting right until the end.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
Yes, but is there—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
Are all of the Governments taking the same approach in terms of Exercise Pegasus, or have some of them published reports already?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
Finally from me, Chair, the UK COVID inquiry, in its module 1 report, does suggest that we need to publish reports on exercises by all of the Governments within three months, and an action plan then within six months, and that they are all kept within the UK…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
We've had some evidence that has suggested that we need to strengthen the mechanism for learning lessons from the multi-agency exercises across Government. And one of the suggestions is that we do something similar to what's happened in Scotland with SMARTEU…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
Very quickly, could I just flag up some of the criticisms that have been made about the blind spots of Exercise Pegasus, if I can put it that way? One relating to compound risks—for example, a pandemic happening at the same time as severe flooding—and the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
COVID-19: evidence session with the Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS, First Minister of Wales
And in drawing up the scenario, was one of the things that you were trying to reflect, in order to make it realistic and to reflect things on the ground, as it were, policy divergence between the different Governments?
