, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
I think that it's not all or nothing, is it? You can reduce the training budget rather than slash the training budget. I think we do need this discussion amongst Members of virtual versus visits. I know there are friends of ours who are very keen on…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
You don't have to convince me of the importance of buying the building. I've said that for the last 11 years, 12 years, without getting very far. I'll just say it again for the record that it's always better to own than to lease.
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
If the windows all had to be replaced and we walked away—. If the windows had to be replaced, it wouldn't fall on us—you would be negotiating with them how much of that fell to us.
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
So, it isn't 100 per cent full repair lease—
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Generally, let's take windows as an example. If the windows need replacing, are you and ultimately we responsible for replacing them, or is it a landlord's responsibility? I'm trying to get to, not very well, but I'm trying to get to the split between…
, Finance Committee
Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session
Talking about the lease, is it full repairing lease, or a partial repairing lease?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
No.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
Okay, thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
No, that's fine. I don't want a number, I just wanted to know that you do have them.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
I speak from experience in local government where, at one time, we had over 250 key performance indicators, and I don't think you can have that number of key performance indicators. Are there any performance indicators under the key performance indicators…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
Yes, I'll take them forward, Chair. Please be careful—I may run out of voice. How do the key performance indicators drive the delivery of Commission objectives, and how effective are they in assessing the Commission's performance in delivering them?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
Yes.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
Okay, thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
Okay. I won't take it any further today. I'll save that up for tomorrow. Are you revising the timing of capital projects that form part of your mid-term carbon reduction strategy, and how will this impact on reaching your goals?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
You've got to be disciplined about the year end financially, but the year end is an arbitrary date that bears no relationship to when projects are needed, does it? It stops in April, whenever, whether it's 1 April, 6 April. The project has to be done by this…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
There are advantages in being on both.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
Rhianon and I will be there at the Finance Committee as we are here in public accounts.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
I'm sure it will as well, as you know.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
Did you drift any projects across year ends? That's always the trick that people do with projects, isn't it, that instead of finishing on a date within that year, you drift it so it goes into the following you. Did you do any of those?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Scrutiny of Senedd Commission Accounts 2023-24
I may stop part of the way through. Given the reduction in funding, can you summarise how in-year project fund costs were managed and how do you prioritise projects?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Senedd Commission Public Appointments
A postcode, which you must have, that gives you information, doesn't it? Because most areas are fairly homogenous.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Senedd Commission Public Appointments
If Adam was here, he'd say, 'How do you ensure we have 20 per cent of applicants speaking Welsh?' I will say, 'Are you now recording the first part of the postcode of where people live?' because I have concerns that it's posh Cardiff and the Vale that do…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Senedd Commission Public Appointments
Thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Senedd Commission Public Appointments
Diolch, Cadeirydd. The Senedd Commission internal audit plan 2023-24 noted it would carry out an audit review of the systems and processes in place to support committees in their roles in relation to public appointments. What was the outcome of the audit, and…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Cabinet Manuals and the Ministerial Code
Can I just say, without going into cases, it doesn't work, because I know at least one former Minister who feels really aggrieved by the action of certain civil servants. I won't go any further than that, but that's just for your information. Okay. Thank you…
