23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
Just in terms of the ministerial code, you generally are directly involved, I think, in investigations and, indeed, in the case of Dawn Bowden, your report was published. Did you provide any advice to the First Minister in relation to a breach of the code by…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
Yes. So, the UK Government manual has some extensive information on whistleblowing. Well, it refers, actually—I apologise. The section on leak inquiries does reference the section of the civil service directory that covers whistleblowing, which, among other…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
It's a complex area, I think we can agree on that, but we'd be very grateful to receive that further advice from you, and some clarity, in this decidedly grey area. Could I just ask, you chair the whistleblowing panel?
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
So, it would be legitimate under some circumstances for public resources, the use of a civil servant in most cases, the head of security, to investigate the sharing of information that was not in a Government context, so a minute of the Labour Party group…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
Right, okay. So, an unauthorised disclosure would consist of either the disclosure of the actual document itself, and then it's fairly clear, isn't it, or disclosing the information that's contained within the document, presumably in another format. I know…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
If I build on Mike Hedges's set of questions, really, which I think is about understanding the nature of information and whether confidentiality applies to it—. Government documents—and I had some experience of this during the co-operation agreement—are…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
So, Mr Richards, you are the director of propriety and ethics of the Welsh Government. Forgive me in my simplicity here, but I would have expected the director of propriety and ethics at least to have knowledge of this matter. Are you saying that the only…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
I don't think that the issue of sensitivity—. I don't understand the issue of sensitivity. It's certainly within the remit of this committee to ask questions in relation to leak inquiries—we've already established that. A predecessor committee had extensive…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
The established procedures are set out in some greater detail in the documents referenced in the UK Cabinet manual. What are the established procedures in the case of the Welsh Government in terms of unauthorised disclosures or leaks of information, and where…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
But the First Minister, in referencing it, presumably there is—
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
Let's delve a little bit deeper into the similarities and differences between the Cabinet manual and the Cabinet handbook, and also the relationship of the handbook to other processes, procedures and policies, and look at one particular area, which is covered…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
Thank you for that. So, we have a more limited document, which is not published but internal. Then, there are other sets of guidance documents or policies in relation to specific areas outside of the handbook, presumably because you don't have the compendium…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
You said that you—and, presumably, the other senior civil servants—use the UK Cabinet manual, you refer to it a lot. Would it be correct to say that the Welsh Cabinet handbook reflects many of the provisions of the UK Cabinet manual? Or, if not, are there…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
One of the purposes of the UK Government's Cabinet manual was to increase transparency by, and I quote, 'shedding light on the inner workings of Government'. Would you accept, given what you have just said in terms of the Cabinet handbook, that we have less…
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
Would it be possible for this committee, given the usual assurances in our dealing with confidential information, as we often do, to see a copy of that Cabinet handbook?
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
Why is that an internal document only?
23 Mai 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn ar Lawlyfr y Cabinet a Thrafodaethau Mynediad
Thank you very much, Chair. Bore da. If I understand you correctly, then, there isn't a Welsh Cabinet manual.
22 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Ogledd Cymru a Thrafnidiaeth
Mae sefydliadau trafnidiaeth gymunedol yn fy etholaeth i wedi bod yn darparu gwasanaeth rhagorol i'r cymunedau hynny a allai gael eu tanwasanaethu gan ddarparwyr gwasanaethau bysiau mawr a thraddodiadol. Mae Dolen Teifi, er enghraifft, sy'n gwasanaethu llawer…
22 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Ogledd Cymru a Thrafnidiaeth
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21 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol
Fe garwn i dynnu sylw'r Cwnsler Cyffredinol at y ffaith mai 18 Mehefin fydd y pedwerydd cyfle ffurfiol i'r Senedd drafod y cynnig hwn. Dyma'r hyn y mae Seneddau yn ei wneud—maen nhw'n diwygio Biliau'r Llywodraeth, ac mae hi'n debyg y dylem ni wneud hynny'n…
21 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol
Yn eich sylwadau'r wythnos diwethaf yn y cyfnod pwyllgor, roeddech chi'n dweud nad oedd y Llywodraeth wedi cynhyrchu archwiliad dwfn cynhwysfawr eto—rwy'n credu mai dyna oedd eich ymadrodd chi, Cwnsler Cyffredinol—dadansoddiad cyfreithiol o'r cynnig. Rydym ni…
21 Mai 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Cwnsler Cyffredinol
Diolch, Llywydd. Cwnsler Cyffredinol, rydych chi a minnau wedi cael cyfle ar fwy nag un achlysur erbyn hyn i drafod y cynnig i gyflwyno gwaharddiad ar ddichell fwriadol gan Aelodau presennol a darpar Aelodau'r Senedd. Nawr, fe ymgorfforwyd y cynnig hwnnw mewn…
16 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Grŵp 18: Adolygu’r Ddeddf (Gwelliannau 94, 95)
Yn symud.
16 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Grŵp 18: Adolygu’r Ddeddf (Gwelliannau 94, 95)
Ddim yn symud.
16 Mai 2024 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Grŵp 18: Adolygu’r Ddeddf (Gwelliannau 94, 95)
Yn symud.
