, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Okay, thank you. So, can I just, finally, go on to a question that is slightly different? So, can you provide a clear timetable for Welsh access to the Chester mother and baby unit, and confirm the long-term future of Uned Gobaith, including implementation of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
So, in achieving the intention of the community of practice model, in hindsight, do you think that you should have consulted better with the key stakeholders and discussed option appraisals with them?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Yes, if I can, thank you. So, key stakeholders report, Minister, that they weren't consulted on the proposals to disband the perinatal clinical implementation network, and you've not yet set out what other options were considered. Now, the committee has…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Yes. Bore da. I'm going to be asking questions about perinatal mental health. The first question is about stakeholders. Having made it absolutely clear that national co-ordination is essential to making progress in perinatal mental health, how will the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Thank you, Chair. Sorry, I've thought of one additional question that I should have asked earlier, so apologies for that. About a year ago, the First Minister wrote to the committee saying that she would publish a manual for the possibility of a new…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Okay. Thanks, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Okay, thank you very much. And the last question about losses. You report a loss of £2.1 million relating to the Transforming Towns—Building for the Future programme, which results from a £4.1 million correction to expenditure following the final claim by…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Sorry, go on.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Diolch yn fawr—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
If I can just carry on on the theme of losses, the 2024-25 accounts show another loss relating to the Wales life sciences investment fund. So, what are your own reflections on the loss and how do you respond to the recent media coverage about the Welsh…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Thank you. Just on the back of that, we've also seen losses of two dairies in north Wales reported in the 2024-25 accounts. So, are the circumstances similar? What lessons again can we learn from this process in regard to these two dairies?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Thank you, Chair. The first question is on losses, and it relates to about £1.6 million that the Government gave to a charity to develop a maritime centre in Porthcawl. An Audit Wales report said that due diligence was not sufficient or rigorous enough and…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Okay. No more questions, Chair. Thank you. Diolch.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Okay, thank you very much. And my final question on this section: in his introduction to the 2024-25 accounts, the audit and risk assurance chair noted that the group audit and risk assurance committees have transitioned to group assurance boards. Could you…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Thank you. I'm sure that the members of the committee in the future would be pleased to receive that programme of work. If I may move on to a different question, the number of advisory audits, or audits that internal audit have not provided an opinion on…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Thank you very much. If I may ask a supplementary question, really, what's the timetable that you have for implementing each of the 141 recommendations made to do with the arrangements for the management of programmes and projects in the Welsh Government? You…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Thank you, Chair. Sorry, I had a blip on my computer earlier on, so if I can just return to a set of questions around governance. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you. So, in its 2013-14 and 2014-15 accounts, the Welsh Government said it had established a centre…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Okay, diolch yn fawr. Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Thank you for the explanation there. You just used an analogy that you're on the road to completing this review. So, could you give us an indication of a revised timetable, when we can expect to see this being published?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Welsh Government 2024-25: evidence session with Dr Andrew Goodall, Permanent Secretary - Welsh Government
Diolch, Mark. Bore da. My first question is: at the time of our preparation for this session, you had yet to publish any revised chapters of 'Managing Welsh Public Money', despite telling the committee that you would do so as officials updated them, with the…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
Quintile 1 is 21 per cent. [Interruption.]
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
It was the two parts. It's the deprived communities and also the general cohort being about 8.6 per cent lower than the average.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
Thank you. My question is on the university sector. Recent Universities and Colleges Admissions Service figures show that roughly about 32 per cent of 18-year-olds have made applications to universities. That's 8.6 per cent below the UK average. For young…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
General scrutiny session with the Welsh Government - Education
Okay, fine.
