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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Okay, then, thank you. Can I bring Rhianon Passmore back in, then, please, to pick up some questions about your staffing?
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
And finally, before I move on, what specific actions have you taken to address the issues with single tender actions, and what assurance can you provide us with about the controls you had in place in 2022-23 as a result of the changes made?
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Thank you very much indeed. Not all of your internal audit's recommendations in 2021-22 have been implemented in-year. Are you on course to action them by the revised deadline of the end of this month?
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Could you perhaps check and clarify?
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Okay, thank you. Again, before we move on to the next set of questions, can I just clarify a couple of points on the back of Mike's questions to you? Why did your internal auditors only conduct three reviews during 2022-23 compared with six the previous year…
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Okay. Thank you. I'm going to bring in Mike Hedges.
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
So, that would have to be handed back to Welsh Government if you did inadvertently generate a surplus.
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
And, of course, you come from a co-operative and mutual background in your previous role. When you say that you can't make a profit, can you make a surplus, as long as that's reinvested in the operations?
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Okay. Thank you. Can I just go back to one point? Given that the previous commissioner said her funding level had a negative impact on the quality and level of support and advice the office could provide for public bodies covered by the Act, and also—I think…
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Where.
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Where.
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Just on that, where will they be published?
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Okay, thank you. Rhianon Passmore, please.
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Thank you. Just on that section, before I bring in Rhianon Passmore, if you could just further clarify how you keep track of the recommendations made in the reports published by your office and assess progress in their implementation. And perhaps to throw in…
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Okay, thank you. Natasha Asghar.
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
And finally, before I pass on to colleagues, will those key performance indicators and measures include the five ways of working under the Act?
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Okay, thank you. The report's structure, style and narrative largely follow the same pattern as that of previous reports. To what extent were you able to influence this report, for 2022-23, and what plans, if any, do you have to change the presentation…
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Okay. You were only in the post for the last month of the period to which the report relates. What specific assurances did you therefore seek before you approved the report?
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
As you indicated, you came from a third sector body, Cwmpas. As somebody with that third sector background, what differences have you noted with this—? I don't know where you would sit this sector—it's quasi-governmental, but independent of Government.
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Thank you, indeed. Well, as you'll expect, we have a number of questions to ask you. I ask Members and you, as witnesses, to be as succinct as possible to enable us to cover as wide a range of those issues as we possibly can. And, as convention has it, I'll…
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Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
The first and main item on our agenda today is consideration of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales's annual report and accounts for 2022-23. Could I start by, again, welcoming the participants and asking each of you to state your names and roles…
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Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good morning and welcome to this morning's meeting of the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee in the Senedd, the Welsh Parliament. No apologies have been received for this meeting. We have Members participating online, with Rhianon Passmore on…
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Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Good morning and welcome.
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Short Debate: Stroke awareness and the FAST/NESA campaign
By coincidence, I actually led a debate here almost exactly a year ago on stroke services, where I stated: 'The Stroke Association has also called for a renewed FAST campaign' —face, arms, speech, time— 'by Public Health Wales...to improve awareness of stroke…
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Topical Questions
Well, the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 is supposed to make public bodies listed in the Act, including local authorities and Natural Resources Wales, NRW, think more about the long term, work better with people and communities and each…
