, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
NHS Finances: evidence session with NHS Wales health boards
A follow-up very quickly from that—has that £12,000 been recovered?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
NHS Finances: evidence session with NHS Wales health boards
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
NHS Finances: evidence session with NHS Wales health boards
There was a process that was started, though, and the end of that process was never reached.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
NHS Finances: evidence session with NHS Wales health boards
Not surprisingly, I’m going to return to the industrial action and the health visitor dispute. I wonder whether the board have ever reflected on beginning a process locally and then reneging on that process, which is the basis for the dispute. I wonder…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
NHS Finances: evidence session with NHS Wales health boards
Okay.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
NHS Finances: evidence session with NHS Wales health boards
Oh, to whomever.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
NHS Finances: evidence session with NHS Wales health boards
Just to follow up from that, I find it hard to believe that it's not becoming the norm, and I find it hard to believe that it's not losing its punch. Because something that happens persistently, apart from going into different levels of regulation—. It's hard…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
NHS Finances: evidence session with NHS Wales health boards
Yes. Just to follow up—sorry, Carrie—if that's okay.
, Plenary
Short Debate: The importance of port infrastructure and maritime traffic to the Welsh economy
Can I thank my fellow Member from Afan Ogwr Rhondda for allowing time within this debate? Across the Siambr, we can often agree that certain issues are important, even if we don't agree on what should be done or the specific actions that are necessary. We…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care
Diolch, Weinidog. I recently met with the British Heart Foundation Cymru, and they estimate that cardiovascular disease costs the Welsh economy in the region of £1.7 billion a year. With around 27,000 people in Afan Ogwr Rhondda living with cardiovascular…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care
4. Will the Cabinet Minister outline the Welsh Government's plans for tackling cardiovascular diseases in Afan Ogwr Rhondda? OQ64659
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
Just following on in terms of bus reform and franchising, I wonder whether you can outline where we are, particularly in terms of risks—the operational risks, delivery risks around that. I'm particularly thinking in terms of some of the things you said…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
To follow up on that, I think you've been incredibly bullish in terms of that £14 billion—and, strategically, I think that's the right thing to do, to assume that those words are real. What we have, though, is history of decades and decades of underinvestment…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
It's almost an observation rather than a question, and I apologise in advance. Everything you've said in terms of both the difficulties that we face in terms of road transport, and the opportunities—I wonder whether you can reflect on some of the criticisms…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Transport
In terms of learner travel, I know that the Government is reviewing the Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008. Can you outline some of the thinking that you're developing in terms of that? Our collective experience is that we have a situation where learners are…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Yes, okay. [Interruption.] No, no. That's why I was surprised.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Ah, right, okay. So, that's not a—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Very quickly, I was surprised that the pay for the lowest paid within our organisation actually went down by down 4.8 per cent over the last year—the median pay for the twenty-fifth percentile went down 4.8 per cent, and everybody else went up 5 per cent. Was…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
And I guess—sorry, Pred—that voter turnout, the 5 per cent increase in voter turnout, was part of the things that we might measure, and, in fact, I guess, with some of the areas around 16 and 17-year-olds voting for the first time, whether there was an…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Yes, absolutely.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Yes. So, it's gone up—it's double what it was in 2021-22, for obvious reasons.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
—and then we'll, hopefully, cover as much as we possibly can. The 2025-26 budget for election costs was almost double that of 2021-22. How do you assess whether that budget has the desired effect and measure that effectiveness?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
—happy for me to carry on? Unfortunately, I think we're going to jump around a bit—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Diolch. Are you—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Diolch. Last autumn, a risk was added to the corporate risk register around the passing of the Welsh Government budget. I wonder whether that risk has increased or decreased, and, particularly, I think the then Llywydd said, in terms of whether that…
