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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Okay. Thank you. If I can bring in Adam Price, who will take up the questions now.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you very much. Could I just ask a question very briefly on that final point, in terms of disability and people with hidden impairments, perhaps neurodevelopmental conditions, neurodiversity or sensory loss, in addition to those who have physical…
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Okay, thank you for your response. Can I now bring in another Member to take up the questions, Rhianon Passmore?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Okay. Thank you. I'll move on, if I may, with a question to Mr Birns and Mr Harvey. Companies House records show that, in May of this year, Jonathan Stott, the finance director and board company secretary, resigned from the airport board. The records show…
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
The Holdco board.
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you for sharing that. This particular question was very much focused on what measures the Welsh Government will implement and on what timescales, to monitor the performance of the board itself. I understand from the initial responses that there's an…
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you, yes.
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Okay, thank you. Well, again, a question to the Welsh Government, following on from that. How will the Welsh Government assess the performance of the new Holdco board, including ensuring that there are no apparent conflicts of interest manifesting themselves…
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you, yes.
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you. One of the new executive directors appointed to the Holdco board in January of this year served as a non-executive director on the airport board for 10 years until May 2023. In making the appointment, how has the Welsh Government balanced perceived…
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you. Is the Holdco board now complete?
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Thank you. Given that you have adopted the code of governance for public appointments, to what extent do you consider that the chair and non-executive directors are, effectively, public appointments?
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Diolch. Thanks for attending committee today. As you'll expect, we have a number of questions. I therefore ask both members of the committee and you as witnesses to be as succinct as possible to enable us to cover the wide range of issues generated by this…
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Evidence Session: Cardiff Airport
Croeso. Welcome to the participants and witnesses who have now joined the meeting. I'd be grateful if we could start this session by inviting them to state their names and roles for the record, perhaps starting with Welsh Government representatives and moving…
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Papers to note
Thank you very much indeed. Do Members otherwise have any comments or questions, or are you content to note? I see heads nodding, so we'll take that as a 'yes'. That moves us on to paper to note 9. The committee has received the Welsh Government's response to…
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Papers to note
Thank you. In many border areas, such as where I live in north-east Wales, a substantial number of people living in England use pharmacists across the border in Wales, and people living in Wales use the pharmacists down their high street, which happens to be…
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Papers to note
That's great. Thank you very much indeed. Our next paper to note, paper 8, is a letter from the chief pharmaceutical officer to the Auditor General for Wales on the community pharmacy data matching pilot. The auditor general wrote to the chief pharmaceutical…
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Papers to note
Thank you. I think that's unanimous, so we'll move on to paper to note 7. In response to our request, the Welsh Local Government Association has written to us with its response to Audit Wales’s report on supporting Ukrainians in Wales, and to help the…
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Papers to note
Thank you. Are other Members content for us to do that as a general question about process rather than any individual case? Great. Well, if we could take that action. Thank you very much indeed. If you're otherwise content to note that letter, I'll move on to…
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Papers to note
I had one question myself, which was, without commenting on any individual case, this or any other, that the criteria that Welsh Government have described in this letter may or may not include a broader check on the trading history of the person or…
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Papers to note
Thank you. All other Members seem content also, so we will move on to paper to note 5. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office has written to us in response to our letter of 24 June, which raised a series of questions about the…
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Papers to note
Thank you. Remaining Members, are you content to note? Thank you. The fourth paper to note is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office on our report on Welsh commissioners, July 2023. The response seeks to provide an…
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Papers to note
We only know what we know, and we understand that any report the CMA provide will be non-binding, but will, nonetheless, presumably include recommendations. What we don't know is how the Welsh Government will provide further information subsequently, in what…
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Papers to note
We have several papers to note. I propose to take the first three of these en bloc, all relating to Cardiff Airport. The first being a letter from the director general for economy, energy and transport group with an update on said airport. The Welsh…
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Introduction, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da. Croeso, pawb. Good morning and welcome, everybody. Here we are at the first Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee of this new Senedd term. This meeting will be conducted bilingually. Headsets provide simultaneous translation on channel…
