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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
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…
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
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…
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
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…
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Papers to note
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?
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Papers to note
Okay. Mike Hedges.
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Papers to note
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…
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Papers to note
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…
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Papers to note
Mike Hedges, I believe, wishes to speak.
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Papers to note
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?
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Papers to note
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…
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Papers to note
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?
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Papers to note
We have a number of papers to note, starting with correspondence from the Permanent Secretary, who has written to us to provide a further update about the updating of 'Managing Welsh Public Money', after recommendations made in our previous committee report…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome, everybody, to this morning's meeting of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee in the Senedd, the Welsh Parliament. The meeting, as always, will be held bilingually. Headsets provide simultaneous translation on…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning and welcome, everybody.
, Plenary
Debate on the Children, Young People and Education Committee Report, 'Implementation of education reforms: Interim report'
Thank you. I'm possibly the only or one of the very few people remaining who sat on the Education and Lifelong Learning Committee from 2005 that produced the reports that eventually led to this legislation. I'm also the parent of what was then a child who had…
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Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Bill relating to planning processes for quarry development
There is much in this motion to commend it. As referenced by the proposer, it is taken, in large part, from the Westminster private Member's Planning (Quarries) Bill proposed by Conservative MP Paul Holmes, which had a First Reading in the House of Commons in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
I'm frequently contacted by parents whose children are being left in a vulnerable position by local authorities' strict interpretation of the Welsh Government's Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008, which restricts free home-to-school transport to learners of…
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Business Statement and Announcement
As chair of the cross-party group on deaf issues, I call for an oral Welsh Government statement to be scheduled here on the scrapped plans to introduce a British Sign Language, BSL, GCSE in Wales. I know you were asked about this in the business statement…
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Questions to the First Minister
We can't build sustainable public buildings without construction firms. In Wales, these are predominantly small and medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs. A new report by the Chartered Institute of Building has highlighted a rising number of Welsh construction…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
I propose that, in accordance with Standing Order 17.42(ix), the committee resolves to meet in private for the remainder of today's meeting. Are all Members content? I think that all Members present are content, so I'd be grateful, Owain, if you could take us…
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Papers to note
So, if we could do that, then, perhaps, later and agree how we wish to take this forward with the Welsh Government in our further scrutiny. If Members are content with that, we'll move on to our sixth paper to note, a letter received from the Chief Executive…
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Papers to note
Oh, sorry. Adrian.
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Papers to note
—what we're going to be doing.
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Papers to note
Lovely. Well, perhaps Owain could capture that within—
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Papers to note
Yes, please.
