, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
How does the Welsh Government communicate any proposals to amend the Order in Council to citizens, public bodies and the Senedd?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
That's accessible to committee, is it?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
When you say it's updated once a year.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
So, that's a document, is it?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Okay, thank you. In practical terms, what is the process for adding or removing Welsh devolved public bodies from the Order in Council works?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Are those listed, or is that discretionary?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Is there a set of criteria that could be shared with us, or is it—?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Okay, thank you. I'll try being succinct in my questions as well. What criteria are used by Welsh Government Ministers to decide whether a public body should be regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments and added to the list of bodies included in…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
We're very short on time, so if that could be your last question, and if you could be as succinct as possible in your answers. Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
I noticed Tim there using social model language, which wasn't used earlier. Thank you. Adam.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Can I just intervene on that point? Amongst other things, I chair the cross-party group on disability in the Senedd, and this is a recurrent issue. As you know, employment of disabled people is well below the level for the population at large, and the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
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…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
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.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
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…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you. I believe Rhianon Passmore wants to come back in.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Natasha.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Rhianon Passmore.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
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…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Adam Price.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
I'll bring in Adam Price.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you very much. Natasha Asghar, you have some questions.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Okay, thank you. I'm going to bring in Rhianon Passmore, who has some questions for you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
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…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
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…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
And how seamless has that been? Because change is aways disruptive, no matter how effectively managed it is.
