, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
I'd just like to go back in terms of the development agency and the framework that they would work within. Possibly my biggest concern is accountability. How do we balance the accountability of a development agency with that swiftness of action—that not going…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Following on from that question, and I hear it quite often, particularly in the Chamber and here, about plans for plans et cetera—. But we have a new Government, and sometimes different decisions are going to be taken. The idea that decisions are slower in…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Diolch.
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Diolch. Just to go back in terms of those targets and that approach to renewable energy and net zero, can you outline a bit more in terms of what your thinking is in terms of that, and particularly how that affects community-owned energy production? Where are…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: Welsh Government arrangements for funding local government
Okay, thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: Welsh Government arrangements for funding local government
Sure, okay.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: Welsh Government arrangements for funding local government
Sure.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: Welsh Government arrangements for funding local government
I'll try my best. We've seen, I think, from what you've written, the effects of an omnishambles chaos at Westminster and how that plays through in terms of the financing of the Welsh Government: an increasingly unpredictable schedule of reviews, which is…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
I won't take up the time, Chair, but—I will [Laughter.]—the last question is: where those examples of good practice are, I guess the question is why that is not being transferred elsewhere. I mean, is it not being widely used in all of the authorities, in the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Yes. So, are there examples of digital transformation projects or programmes that have delivered well?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Thank you, Chair. Briefly, a couple of quick questions. It's a depressing report, partly, and it's not new, is it, but that historic look back, where some of these issues had been identified several years ago and we're still facing the same problems. One of…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. Over the summer months, I've met with a number of organisations who are involved in food poverty and food insecurity. From frontline provision to community pantries and growing schemes, everyone seems to be saying the same thing…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Will the First Minister provide an update on progress relating to the development of a new food strategy and how that could start to deal with food poverty in Afan Ogwr Rhondda?
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
4. Will the First Minister provide an update on progress relating to the development of a new national food strategy? OQ64561
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Thank you very much for the report. In the report's title, you ask whether public bodies know if the system is working. Without revealing everything, you could have reworded that by saying that those public bodies don't know whether the system is working, and…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
Yes, I do. It strikes me, though, that 'oversight' is another word that we use for exceptional activities. What I'm seeing is a pattern of activities that are there because I believe those boards and senior managers do not believe that they are truly…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
I'd like to return to that. There's a duty to break even. 'Duty' says to me that that is an expectation, not just a hope that that would happen. I think it's increasingly difficult to call that a duty to break even. It hasn't worked. I guess the reality is…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductory evidence session with the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Thank you, Minister. I'd like to come back to one of the areas that perhaps you have touched on already, namely trust, and perhaps you have a role in terms of restoring trust in this body and politicians—good luck with that. As I understand it—and you've…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductory evidence session with the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Thank you. If I can just very briefly follow up on where you'd arrived towards the end, beyond the UK as well, I guess, internationally as well, there's always a question then in terms of ethos as well. So, what do we know about a public service in Wales, the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Introductory evidence session with the Cabinet Minister for Government Effectiveness and the Constitution
Diolch. You've already outlined that one of the areas that you're looking at is having one Welsh public service. You're not the first person to have outlined that. So, can you tell us how the new body, Arwain, will lead on that and what you hope to achieve in…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Valedictory evidence session with Adrian Crompton, Auditor General for Wales
Thank you, Chair. In your letter, you reflect on two decades of financial pressures on public bodies in Wales, austerity throughout Wales, and you mentioned some of the measures that we've tried to introduce to regulate spending, regulate how we spend. What…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
Papers to Note
It is important for the economy, not just for that area, but for the economy of Wales. We have to make certain that those connections to the grid are available. It seems as if it's perhaps something we'll come back to in this committee, what those…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
Papers to Note
Just to note, I am supportive of that. I represent that area, Port Talbot.
, Plenary
Debate: Fair Funding
I will. I will go on to outline how they are not related. Changes to how the Welsh budget operates does not necessitate changes to the Scottish budget. The 2014 and 2017 Wales Acts did not change Scotland's framework, nor did the Scotland Act 2016 change…
