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Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Obviously, that could, theoretically, produce quite a differential approach, so, what, if any, central oversight or monitoring arrangements exist for the Welsh Government's use of external consultants?
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Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
So, when considering appointing a consultant, or advising a Minister on appointment of consultants, what would determine the line of recommendation you might follow?
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Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Okay. I shall begin, then. A quite straightforward question: what guidance does the Welsh Government have for its use of external consultants, and what does that guidance state about when it can go to the market, rather than deliver services in-house?
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Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Thank you. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. I believe that there have been traffic problems with at least one of you, so thank you for making it. Would you like to make an initial briefing, or would you like us to go straight into questions?
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Evidence Session: Local Partnerships LLP
Croeso. Welcome to our witnesses. Thank you very much for being with us today. For the record, I'd be grateful if you could state your names and roles.
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Papers to note
Thank you very much indeed. If there are no further comments at this point, are Members content to note? Thank you. We have one additional item, I believe. Oh, that was the additional item, so—. [Laughter.] In which case, can we break momentarily while we…
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Papers to note
So, on that basis, are Members content to note at this point? Thank you very much indeed. Next item: a letter from the director of propriety and ethics, responding to outstanding issues following our session on 23 May. They address issues relating to the…
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Papers to note
And then I picked up in the auditor general's comments about the £164,000 to pick up in future scrutiny. Thank you very much. So, otherwise, are Members content to note? Thank you. Next item: Welsh Government response to the Audit Wales report, 'Governance of…
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Papers to note
Thank you. Members, do you wish to comment? If I remember correctly, in terms of the Acorn consortia, the key ask related to the extent to which they were aware, at the time decisions were initially made, of the convictions in Japanese and Spanish courts, and…
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Papers to note
Thank you very much. Well, notwithstanding our later discussion, are Members content to note the letter? Thank you. The next item to note is a letter from the director general of the health, social care and early years group for the NHS Wales chief executive…
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Papers to note
Thank you. Rhianon, is your hand up?
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Papers to note
Okay. Thank you. The next paper to note is, again, a letter from the auditor general to the chief pharmaceutical officer on the community pharmacy data matching pilot. This shares with us findings from the community pharmacy data pilot project the auditor…
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Papers to note
Any thoughts?
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Papers to note
Thank you very much. Rhianon.
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Papers to note
Are there any comments, Members, or are you content to note the letter?
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Papers to note
Any comments from anyone else? No. Okay, thank you. So, happy to note the letter. The next paper to note is a letter from the Auditor General for Wales to the Chair of the Finance Committee regarding the Finance Committee's recommendation that he notifies the…
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Papers to note
Thank you very much indeed. Members, do you have any comments or suggestions on the plan for us to consider alongside the future reports of the auditor general and future generations commissioner? Could you indicate whether you're, in so responding, content…
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Papers to note
We have several papers to note. The first is a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice, who has written to us highlighting the publication of a progress report on the 'Welsh Government’s Well-being of Future Generations Continuous…
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Introduction, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Bore da a chroeso—good morning and welcome—to this morning's meeting of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee in the Senedd—Welsh Parliament. This meeting is bilingual; headsets provide simultaneous translation on channel 1 and sound…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Planning policy for new power lines
Diolch. Undergrounding cables providing electrical power or telecommunications, rather than hanging them on poles or towers, helps improve system reliability and to reduce the risks of outages during high winds, thunderstorms, heavy snow or ice storms…
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Plaid Cymru Debate: Mental health and learning disability services at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Don't you agree that, in order to draw a line under this and go forward, the Welsh Government also need to apologise to the families of the victims, especially given the denials over many years that there had been institutional abuse and that there's now been…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Economic policy
—and 17 G20 countries currently have higher inflation rates than the UK in consequence of the global cost-of-living crisis. I conclude, there is a hope for the future, provided that a UK Labour Government is not elected to wreck the economy once again.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: Economic policy
Devolution was supposed to reinvigorate the economy and liberate the life chances of people in Wales. However, although Wales can be an agile nation with a thriving high-wage economy, its entrepreneurial spirit has been kept on a leash, and this has sadly not…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
Wales has a housing crisis, and although the last UK Labour Government oversaw the lowest level of house building since the 1920s, it was the Welsh Government that by 2010 had by far the lowest proportional level of housing expenditure of any of the four UK…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Institutional abuse on the Hergest mental health unit and Tawel Fan dementia ward was validated and exposed in successive reports. The Tawel Fan families state that in October 2018, the then health Secretary, now First Minister, Vaughan Gething, told them…
