, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
And I guess—sorry, Pred—that voter turnout, the 5 per cent increase in voter turnout, was part of the things that we might measure, and, in fact, I guess, with some of the areas around 16 and 17-year-olds voting for the first time, whether there was an…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Yes, absolutely.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Yes. So, it's gone up—it's double what it was in 2021-22, for obvious reasons.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
—and then we'll, hopefully, cover as much as we possibly can. The 2025-26 budget for election costs was almost double that of 2021-22. How do you assess whether that budget has the desired effect and measure that effectiveness?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
—happy for me to carry on? Unfortunately, I think we're going to jump around a bit—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Diolch. Are you—
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts - Senedd Commission 2025-26: evidence session
Diolch. Last autumn, a risk was added to the corporate risk register around the passing of the Welsh Government budget. I wonder whether that risk has increased or decreased, and, particularly, I think the then Llywydd said, in terms of whether that…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
I'd just like to go back in terms of the development agency and the framework that they would work within. Possibly my biggest concern is accountability. How do we balance the accountability of a development agency with that swiftness of action—that not going…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Following on from that question, and I hear it quite often, particularly in the Chamber and here, about plans for plans et cetera—. But we have a new Government, and sometimes different decisions are going to be taken. The idea that decisions are slower in…
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Diolch.
, Economy, Energy and Connectivity Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy
Diolch. Just to go back in terms of those targets and that approach to renewable energy and net zero, can you outline a bit more in terms of what your thinking is in terms of that, and particularly how that affects community-owned energy production? Where are…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: Welsh Government arrangements for funding local government
Okay, thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: Welsh Government arrangements for funding local government
Sure, okay.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: Welsh Government arrangements for funding local government
Sure.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: Welsh Government arrangements for funding local government
I'll try my best. We've seen, I think, from what you've written, the effects of an omnishambles chaos at Westminster and how that plays through in terms of the financing of the Welsh Government: an increasingly unpredictable schedule of reviews, which is…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
I won't take up the time, Chair, but—I will [Laughter.]—the last question is: where those examples of good practice are, I guess the question is why that is not being transferred elsewhere. I mean, is it not being widely used in all of the authorities, in the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Yes. So, are there examples of digital transformation projects or programmes that have delivered well?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales brief: NHS digital transformation
Thank you, Chair. Briefly, a couple of quick questions. It's a depressing report, partly, and it's not new, is it, but that historic look back, where some of these issues had been identified several years ago and we're still facing the same problems. One of…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. Over the summer months, I've met with a number of organisations who are involved in food poverty and food insecurity. From frontline provision to community pantries and growing schemes, everyone seems to be saying the same thing…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Will the First Minister provide an update on progress relating to the development of a new food strategy and how that could start to deal with food poverty in Afan Ogwr Rhondda?
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
4. Will the First Minister provide an update on progress relating to the development of a new national food strategy? OQ64561
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
Thank you very much for the report. In the report's title, you ask whether public bodies know if the system is working. Without revealing everything, you could have reworded that by saying that those public bodies don't know whether the system is working, and…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
Yes, I do. It strikes me, though, that 'oversight' is another word that we use for exceptional activities. What I'm seeing is a pattern of activities that are there because I believe those boards and senior managers do not believe that they are truly…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Audit Wales Brief: NHS accounts 2025-26
I'd like to return to that. There's a duty to break even. 'Duty' says to me that that is an expectation, not just a hope that that would happen. I think it's increasingly difficult to call that a duty to break even. It hasn't worked. I guess the reality is…
