, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, and Estimate 2025-26: Evidence session
I assume there’d be some narrative, then, as to why that’s potentially been rolled back, or made harder if the KPI is easily hit and you’re not stretching yourselves.
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, and Estimate 2025-26: Evidence session
—and how do we as a committee, then, look at how it works from year to year? You could virtually stay still on a KPI, or be very good on a KPI, but your targets got easier over time, or harder over time. So, it’s just for us to understand that.
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, and Estimate 2025-26: Evidence session
So, would that make the KPIs easier or harder, depending on how your case load is looking? Is that how you’re going to—? How do the targets and KPIs link together, I suppose? So, if you make a target higher, then it makes the KPI harder to hit—
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, and Estimate 2025-26: Evidence session
Sorry, you talked about the KPIs. So, are they KPIs that will change annually, or are they KPIs that are set and that you’ll measure performance against, so you’re likely to keep the same KPIs so that you see differences?
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, and Estimate 2025-26: Evidence session
Okay, diolch yn fawr. Thank you. Thank you for that overview, and we'll delve into some of this. Now, this is your first annual report and accounts following the publication of your strategic plan. How has the plan informed the operation of the office this…
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, and Estimate 2025-26: Evidence session
Thank you for the papers that we've had already and the supporting documents. We've got your annual report and your estimate for next year as well. Right, we'll start with some questions to explore the performance in 2023-24, and then we'll come on to the…
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, and Estimate 2025-26: Evidence session
A warm welcome to you this morning and thank you for the papers.
, Finance Committee
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - Scrutiny of Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24, and Estimate 2025-26: Evidence session
Okay, we'll go to our substantive item this morning, which is item 3, the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, scrutiny of the annual report and accounts and estimate for—. The accounts for 2023-24 and the estimate for 2025-26. We've got witnesses with us…
, Finance Committee
Papers to note
So, the papers to note. We've got one paper to note. Happy to note that paper? Yes, okay. Fantastic.
, Finance Committee
Papers to note
Therefore, we will move on to the papers to note.
, Finance Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Well, good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Finance Committee. It's good to see everyone present. We know that Rhianon Passmore is on her way, but she hasn't arrived yet, so she has sent her apologies that she hasn't arrived quite yet. This meeting…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
We've heard from a number of councils that they're going to have to make further cuts to a number of their services that they don't have a legal duty to provide. For example, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council…
, Plenary
Topical Questions
I thank Peter Fox for asking this question.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
One thing that I think we can all agree on is that the public transport network is not where we'd like it to be in Wales. For anyone with a car, this is an inconvenience, if they would prefer to travel by bus or rail. If you are without a car, because you…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Thank you for that response.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
7. How is the Cabinet Secretary working with the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales to ensure there is equality of opportunity and access on the public transport network? OQ61704
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
You talk about a twenty-first century standard; are we going to have to wait until the twenty-second century for it happen? It would be worth knowing what sort of timescales you’re looking at there and what sort of conversations you’re having on that. The…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
I'm not sure you agree that we should be getting that bit as well. I agree with you on that, but £350 million is very different from £5 billion or £4 billion, and imagining what that could do to help the legacy of underinvestment in our own railway network…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
Diolch yn fawr. Cabinet Secretary, we've recently heard from your counterpart in Westminster, the Secretary of State for Transport, Louise Haigh. She said that the HS2 railway line is very likely to run to London Euston and that it would make absolutely no…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
And one of the things within the legislation will be to look at a boundaries review post 2026. So, if we were to go down this route and to do—. In the first instance, would you be in favour of 10 per cent in both, post 2026, before any new changes, and then…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Just, maybe, to clarify what Sam was saying, our new regions would be, effectively, two Westminster constituencies. So, I suppose the question is: should it be 10 per cent in both constituencies, similar to what you were explaining earlier, that you need…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Thank you, Graham. That's great, Chair, thanks.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Okay. With a trigger, did you give any consideration to somebody changing or leaving a political party as a potential trigger for recall? And then in the second part, if you think that wouldn’t be a trigger, but somebody was sitting as an independent or…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Sam, did you want to come in on—? Chair, if Sam wants to come in on this point, then I was going to raise—
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Thank you.
