Plaid Cymru

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5,536 speeches and questions

3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
I might watch that session.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
That's obviously a different—we're not going down that route now, but it's interesting to understand that.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
But in England they would appoint a private company to do this.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
On the work carried out. But it's still proportional to the amount of work that you're doing and that's what we agree in the fee scale beforehand.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
A couple of hundred pounds per community council, as it were.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Typically, roughly how much is 'small'? Is it hundreds?
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Because you're back with us in two or three weeks, aren't you?
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
I just wanted to clarify that position, just for fullness, really.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Sorry, remind me, then, as we come to the end of this financial year, coming soon, if there's any underspend, then that will be returned to the block grant. So, because this is from your earned income, and then an underspend on that, how do the mechanics of…
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Peter.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
And that then answers to the board, and the board makes those decisions and then we scrutinise the board and that's how it all works. Lovely.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
And I suppose, when you come to doing the procurement for that consultant, it then becomes a balance of—. You know, you're going to spend an absolute fortune on this, but you could spend nothing, and it's highly risky not to spend anything; it's, maybe, too…
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Yes, this isn't a session about password security, Mike. [Laughter.] But I get your point, yes.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Rhianon, did you want to just come in on that?
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Mike, if I may, as a new chair, even though you've been there for a little while as well, what's changing from when the previous chair was there? What sort of things would you like to see changing, or is this a trajectory that you're driving as chair, or is…
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Mike.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Out of £500,000, did you say?
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Thank you very much. Sorry, Rhianon, I'll come back to you. Diolch.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Sorry, Rhianon, I'm cutting across. Do you offer sabbaticals as well?
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
That's where my question was going. Is that something that you actively encourage, through secondments and things, so that they get the experience of being in a different body, to be able to bring that experience back?
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Are you seeing anybody leaving and then coming back—so that they potentially would step up to a different role and then come back to a higher role, as happens within the public sector, maybe? Do any trends like that happen?
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Rhianon, I think Mike just had a quick supplementary on that.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
What was the peak?
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Thank you. I'll bring Rhianon in at that point. We'll just unmute Rhianon, hopefully. Hang on—there we are.
3 October 2024Finance Committee
Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
Then the world gets involved.