6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Sioned Evans.
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
I think Ms Williams was first and then I'll bring—.
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
And I think it should perhaps also be noted for the record, certainly from my casework, that a number of pupils were unable to take up their school placements until they'd had that screening, which is certainly something I corresponded with you about at the…
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Okay. Thank you.
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Excuse me, Mike. Emma Williams would like to come in first.
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Okay, thank you. I'll bring in Mike Hedges, who has some questions for you.
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
We're always wary of acronyms that we all understand but not—. The great people of Wales who may be watching this wouldn't necessarily understand the acronym. Thank you. Finally from me, and it's following on from the early part of your answer then, what, if…
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Thank you. And you used the term 'private rented sector'; I think, earlier on, the term 'PRS' was used, so I presume they—
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Yes, Ms Williams.
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
So, again, with the benefit of hindsight, what, if anything, would you have done differently?
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Okay, thank you. On what basis did you think that Ukrainians would move on from welcome centres within 12 weeks, and what might you have done differently in trying to assess accommodation needs with the benefit of hindsight?
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Thank you. Again, I was told that there were effectively three waves of arrivals. The initial wave was people perhaps in professions, highly skilled, qualified people who could afford to leave early. The later arrivals were those who then became subject to…
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Lovely, yes. Ruth.
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
You know the skill sets better than me, so—
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Thank you. Anecdotally, I attended an event in north Wales, I believe in July, for Ukrainians who’d arrived, and coaches were literally arriving with new people as we were there. But how were officials working with their UK Government colleagues to plan the…
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Yes, please. Ruth, would you like to elaborate?
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Thank you very much. To what extent do you consider that, as officials, you could or should have advised Ministers to pause the scheme at an earlier stage?
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Thank you. It was reported, certainly last year, that Wales had taken a lower proportion per capita than other UK nations. Is that accurate, and if so, why is that the case?
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Diolch yn fawr. As you would expect, we have several questions. I'd therefore be grateful if Members and our witnesses could be as succinct as possible in their questions and answers so that we can cover as wide a range of these as possible. As convention has…
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Oh, sorry, yes. Sorry, I won't do that again.
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Diolch. Thank you—
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cefnogi Wcreiniaid yng Nghymru: sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag uwch-swyddogion Llywodraeth Cymru
Croeso. Welcome to our witnesses who have now joined the meeting for our next evidence session on supporting Ukrainians in Wales. Could I begin, please, by asking the witnesses to state their names and roles for the record?
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Great. Thank you. Well, we will pick this up—I think it's going to be item 5 on the agenda now—and agree our further course of action, capturing those comments also. So, if we can go into a temporary break—I think a five-minute break—before we reconvene for…
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Thank you. I suspect there will be general consensus with the view expressed, unless I've misread Members. Natasha Asghar.
6 Tachwedd 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Mike Hedges, Adam Price, are you content with that proposed action? Thank you. So, if we could capture that. Otherwise, you're content to note? Thank you. The fourth item to note is correspondence from the Welsh Government director of propriety and ethics…
