17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
As someone who also gets lost on the Welsh Government website, it's a barrier to access; you search for a subject area and you get a long list of correspondence and statements over a long period of time, rather than being taken to the relevant document or…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Okay, thank you. Can I bring in Mike Hedges, who has a line of questions on a related but separate matter? So, Mike Hedges, over to you.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Thank you. Before I bring Mike Hedges in, I've got one supplementary question myself. What, if any, learning is there from the Senedd Commission's experience in exactly the same area? In their evidence to us previously, they said that although on balance the…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Thank you. I believe Rhianon Passmore wants to come back in.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Natasha.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Rhianon Passmore.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Okay. Just developing on that, my understanding is that the purpose of strategies and outputs is to deliver outcomes, but, of course, things change sometimes, and you mentioned some of the outliers that have come in, including the pandemic. So, when the…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Adam Price.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
I'll bring in Adam Price.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Thank you very much. Natasha Asghar, you have some questions.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Okay, thank you. I'm going to bring in Rhianon Passmore, who has some questions for you.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
And you, I think, described how you're seeking or generating better linkage within the different departments and units in Welsh Government. In terms of reaching out and ensuring better understanding amongst those who might be engaged in the process, how…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Okay, thank you. Evidence provided to the committee and to board members surveyed identified concerns about the visibility of the public appointments team and about a lack of clarity about its role in the public appointments recruitment process. What action…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
And how seamless has that been? Because change is aways disruptive, no matter how effectively managed it is.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Related to this, in your evidence to us on 14 December last year, you said that the public appointments team had just moved into the chief security officer's division. Why was this second move made so quickly after the first? And what, if any, impact has this…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Diolch yn fawr. I'll begin, as usual, with the first set of questions and then colleagues will take up further questions, as we proceed. The evidence you provided to us ahead of this session states that the public appointments team has moved to the expert…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Penodiadau Cyhoeddus: sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda Llywodraeth Cymru
Croeso. Welcome to our witnesses, who have now joined the meeting. Thank you for being with us this morning. As you'll expect, we have a number of questions, so I'd be grateful if both yourselves, in your answers, and Members, in their questions, could be as…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Great. Thank you. That brings us to the end of our papers to note. If Members wish, we can have a short break to 09:35, before we resume for our evidence session on public appointments. Can we have a three-minute private session?
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Okay. Mike Hedges.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Thank you. Unless anyone has any questions now, are you otherwise content to note the letter until we revisit this later? It would appear we are, so thank you very much indeed. The next paper to note is a letter from the director general for the education…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Thank you. Are there further observations? We're clear on where to go on that one. The third paper to note, from Amgueddfa Cymru, is a response to our report. Their officials have responded dealing with the recommendations we made specifically to them. Six of…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Mike Hedges, I believe, wishes to speak.
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Do any other Members have any comments or thoughts? Not that I can see. Would you like to defer action on that until we see the Government in the new year, or write to them in the meantime—write to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning?
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
No other comments? In which case, if we can just take the action identified. The second paper to note is a letter received relating to the Welsh Government's international strategy and Cardiff Airport, in response to a letter from the Chair of the Culture…
17 Hydref 2024 , Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Papurau i'w nodi
Okay. Thank you. Members, do you have any comments, and are you otherwise content just to note the letter, subject to the actions already agreed?
