, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Potentially.
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Well, no, not automatically 'you're out', but that there is a vote of the Members of the Parliament to say 'yes' or 'no', that you've transgressed badly enough—
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
If somebody had done something, and they had a suspended sentence of eight months, for example, so they've triggered the recall bit, and our equivalent committee in Scotland then finds that they've breached the rules, did you consider that that would be…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Did you consider whether or not those triggers were sufficient with, potentially, a supermajority vote in the Scottish Parliament to be able to remove somebody, rather than go down the by-election route?
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
I wasn't suggesting that it would be invalid. It was just the practicalities of turnout. Looking at the triggers that you have—so, you have the same triggers as Westminster—did you consider any other triggers as you were going through this, or is that beyond…
, Standards of Conduct Committee
Inquiry into Individual Member Accountability: Evidence session 10
Hello, Graham. Thanks for this. It's good to tease some of these things out, because you've done a lot of thinking about this. So, as a practical example and looking at—. You mentioned yourself, if something happened like this for you and you were going…
, Finance Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
I now propose that we go into private, under Standing Order 17.42, resolving to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and the start of the next meeting, if everybody's okay. Yes. Okay, we'll do that. Diolch yn fawr.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
Thank you very much for this morning. We’ve gone through that very thoroughly. Thank you for your answers. Of course, there will be a transcript for you to check for accuracy.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
So there's no haircut taken by the Welsh Government on that.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
Okay. Rhianon.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
In the same way as the conversations you're having with the health Secretary around, possibly, winter pressures, are you having that sort of conversation with the transport Secretary to say, 'Well, with these big capital projects, how's the profile looking?'…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
There we are. I'll just bring Rhianon in for a couple of questions now, and then we'll come to time. So, Rhianon. Oh, hang on. There we are. Yes, your mike's on now.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
And it's lucky, Mike, that you're on this committee to be able to explain to the headteachers that you come across what's happening.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
Back to Peter.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
Okay. Rhianon, sorry, you had your hand up on the previous question. I don't know if you want to still come in.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
No, I understand that. But at this point in time—
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
So, you're more confident this year than you might have been last year. You're not thinking of any interventions currently that you need to reallocate from different parts of the budget to cover that.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
So, basically, you couldn't put it in until you knew for definite that it was going to be there.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
Peter.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
I think the narrative on the draft budget, when it comes out, is very detailed, and I know it creates work, but it also creates clarity potentially on the supplementary, so it might be something to consider for future supplementary budgets, to give maybe a…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
Is there a way of strengthening the documentation around the supplementary budget in particular in this case, where the narrative, for that person sat on a bus to be able to understand some of this—? I don't know if there's anything that Government could do…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
The expertise is there to understand it anyway.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
With that, reading the supplementary budget, how have you made sure that people understand that that's the case? Because it isn't always clear that it's an accounting standard that causes that change, rather than a—. So, people can see lots of, effectively…
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
But they have to be reflected within the budget and within the accounts.
, Finance Committee
Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session
It's a cash element, but it's ring-fenced, in a way.
