2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Luke Fletcher has some questions.
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Thank you. Natasha Asghar.
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Thank you. I'll just ask a quick supplementary before I bring Natasha in. I chair the cross-party group on disability and we've taken evidence on this. Some disabled people have learnt, through experience, not always to declare their impairment at the…
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Thank you. Rhianon, could you take up the questions again, please?
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Okay. Mike.
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Sorry, Rhianon, Mike Hedges is asking if he can come in, but have you finished your sentence, first?
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
No further questions, Mike? Well, in that case, can I invite Rhianon Passmore to take up the questions?
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Okay, thank you. Did anybody else wish to comment? No. Other Members will now take up the questions. I invite Mike Hedges to raise some matters with you. Mike.
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Okay. And a further question for you in particular, if I may: what procedures does the organisation have in place to support you and the Senedd committees in arranging the recruitment to Crown and Senedd appointments, and how do you ensure that these are…
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Thank you. We have a number of questions for you. I’d be grateful if both yourselves and Members could be as succinct as possible in answering them in order to cover the wide range of topics generated. As you’ve heard, we propose a short break after about an…
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Penodiadau Cyhoeddus Comisiwn y Senedd
Croeso, bawb. Welcome, everybody, back to the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee meeting this morning in the Senedd. We will now take evidence from the Senedd Commission, the Welsh Parliament Commission, in relation to our usual annual…
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Cynnig o dan Reol Sefydlog 17.42 i benderfynu gwahardd y cyhoedd o'r cyfarfod ar gyfer eitem 4 a gweddill y cyfarfod ar ôl eitem 6
In accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), I propose that the committee resolves to meet in private for item 4 of today's meeting and the remainder of the meeting after item 6. Are all Members content? Thank you. I see that all Members are content, so I'd…
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
Hwyl.
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
Okay. Thank you. Members, do you have any further questions? I can't see any indication. In which case, I thank Dr Goodall for being with us this morning. We've concluded our questions a little earlier than anticipated, which I'm sure will be devastating for…
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
Thank you. If you were pushed on this, hypothetically, in the future, could you just say 'no'?
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
Can I bring in Luke Fletcher?
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
And that would be permissible.
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
If a Minister texts their family to say they're going to be late for dinner, or texts their friend to say that they'll meet them in the pub on Saturday night, is that official Government business?
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
And just developing on your answers, if you could just clarify, are all communications on Welsh Government-issued devices considered official business, and if not, why not?
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
Will this be a routine part of ministerial induction in the future?
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
You referred to the guidance issued internally. Could you develop that a little bit? What specific guidance, if any, is provided to Ministers on the use of Welsh Government-issued devices, including mobile phones, and does such guidance specify any activities…
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
Moving on, the ministerial code sets out that Government property should not generally be used for constituency work or party political activities. But as you know, the waters have become muddied by the development of modern technology and what devices can…
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
Just to confirm, the other Governments in the UK have appointed independent advisers into a role specified for that purpose. Am I correct?
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
Given, as you quite rightly indicate, that civil servants are required to provide impartial advice to Ministers and support for them, is it right in your view that civil servants should be put in the position of having to potentially investigate the very…
2 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Sesiwn dystiolaeth: Llawlyfrau Cabinet a Chod y Gweinidogion
Okay. Thank you very much indeed. I think I will just pick up on a point there. Transparency International have provided a response to us, stating the Welsh Government should appoint an independent adviser 'through a transparent process, removed from the…
