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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.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
I noticed Tim there using social model language, which wasn't used earlier. Thank you. Adam.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you. I believe Rhianon Passmore wants to come back in.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Natasha.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Rhianon Passmore.
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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…
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Adam Price.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
I'll bring in Adam Price.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Thank you very much. Natasha Asghar, you have some questions.
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Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government
Okay, thank you. I'm going to bring in Rhianon Passmore, who has some questions for you.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
