, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Housing-with-Care Fund
I very much welcome the Minister's statement on housing with care. Members probably remember my continual and regular call that decent, affordable housing is fundamental to the health and well-being of everyone in Wales. It's been really nice to have that…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Can I thank the First Minister for that response? Since the second world war, society has changed, which has led to an increase in loneliness and isolation for some. Families are smaller and more spread out, chapels and pubs have closed and the numbers…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
5. Will the First Minister outline Welsh Government action to combat loneliness in Wales? OQ58032
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
I'll finish on this, just as a comment you may wish to answer or not. I'm sure if I went to Morriston Hospital and walked in there and met nurses, doctors and auxiliary staff, and I said, 'Who do you work for?' The majority of them, if not all of them, would…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Yes, and you don't have to work out how long it's going to take everybody to get there and methods of travel. My final question. You support the delivery of the ambition to create a one Welsh public service, across the Welsh public service, one I agree with…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
I think that the situation is that sometimes it's useful to be in the same room as everybody else, other times it isn't, and, quite often, travelling several hundred miles for a one-hour meeting isn't necessarily the best use of anybody's time or good for the…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Thank you for that answer. I've spent 25 years telling people that video-conferencing was the way that we were going and people weren't going to have to travel long distances, and it took one month of COVID for 25 years of lack of action to be turned into…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Thank you. Well, if I could first of all just thank the Member for his comments about the civil service and the way it's reacted to the pandemic response, I'm very grateful for that, and I am proud of the way in which the civil service has discharged its own…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I've got three questions. The first one is: COVID showed the Welsh Government civil service at its best, and I think that you must be very proud of the role that the civil service played in that. Under this new restructuring, do you think…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Thank you. Finally from me: was that an offer to come back in 12 months' time to tell us how it's worked?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
How will you ensure that the transition is effective, and how will you review it?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
You've talked about the senior changes; how far into the organisation are changes occurring?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
I could ask the question, why not just one Minister, one director general, or one Minister and two directors general, or two Ministers, one director general, and two heads of service?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Can I ask you about progress towards implementing the restructure? In my experience of restructuring from different levels in different places, you end up with some months of people worrying about what's going to happen, where they're going to end up, and…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Thank you very much. Can I talk about the current Welsh Government's senior restructure implementation? We seem to have had an awful lot of senior restructuring in Welsh Government over recent years. I think Chairman Mao would be proud of your continual…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
When will the appointment take place?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of public administration: Evidence session
Diolch. My first question is on the chief operating officer—I think that's a very important role. How does that relate to your role? Because you were, effectively, the chief operating officer as the position you currently hold as Permanent Secretary. How is…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Thank you. I'll just finish with a comment that mergers sometimes mean you have somebody in charge of both, and then you go to the next layer down and they separate back out again.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
And the final question from me: should Care Inspectorate Wales and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales be merged?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
And, of course, we know that moving care homes can have a serious effect on life expectancy as well. Moving on to the role of the care home inspectors—is that working in helping to drive up care quality, or is it, like a lot of inspections in different…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Thank you for that. It's not just care homes, I've got one doctor's surgery that is very unhappy to have any complaints, and the first thing they say to somebody who complains is, 'All right, we'll kick you off our register. You can go and find yourself…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
Thank you for that. Again, round by where I live, of the big care home providers in Swansea East, three of them I think are very good. They invite me to things and they want to show off the quality of what they're providing. Others are less keen on having any…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Election of Temporary Chair
My first question is: should we have more collaboration between purchasers and providers, rather than this almost two-side, 'We're buying, you're selling, and we'll negotiate from there'? Is there a role for more collaboration between the two, because at the…
