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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
There we are. If we look at that in—I think you're with us in November, to look at that again.
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Yes.
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Well done, Mike—brevity. Thank you ever so much, Mike, for that. And thank you for coming this morning, Adrian, Lindsay and the team there; thank you for joining us. Just one quick question to finish off: how much are the resources that you've put forward to…
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you. I'll hand over to Mike now, and we'll try, hopefully, to finish by midday on this session, but I don't want to stifle Mike with his questioning, so over to you, Mike.
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you. Peter, I think you've got one more question, have you, Peter?
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
I think Rhianon has a comment on that, so I'll just bring her in quickly then.
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Yes. Unless Peter's got a final question to come through, so I can go to Mike, then.
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Maybe. We're plagued with technical difficulties today, unfortunately. Ah, I think you're back.
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Yes, we're losing you, Adrian. [Interruption.] No. No, I think Adrian's frozen. Maybe, Adrian, if you turn your camera off and see if that helps. No.
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you, Rhianon. Peter, I'll bring you in now.
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
I'll bring Rhianon in now. Thank you very much, Adrian.
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Just touching on the staff survey before I move on to Rhianon, one of the measures in there is on how change is managed within the organisation, and it appears low at 26 per cent. With you running a change programme at the moment, and we've heard about some…
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Lovely. Thank you very much. And, moving on slightly, I think you have the maxim now of, 'self, family, work...in that order' at the forefront of your staffing policy. And part of your key performance indicators involves the employee experience. But, as part…
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you. I think you mentioned in the report that you set up in the work programme a COVID learning project, so how successful has that project been? And whether or not you can demonstrate the outcomes of this work. What difference has that made for your…
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Oversight of Audit Wales—Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 and the Annual Plan 2021-22: Evidence session
Thank you, Peter, for stepping into the breach, and sorry about the technical difficulties we had just then. So, hopefully I'm coming through clearly. Thanks, Peter, for starting with those questions. One of the interesting things there you said was that…
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
Thank you, Minister, for attending. I'd like to thank you all for attending this morning. It has been excellent to listen to your responses and it's good that we have come together like this to discuss these important issues. We look forward to seeing the…
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
I know Mike wants to come in. There you go, Mike.
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
With regard to that, I'll bring Mike in in just a second. Do you think you've got—? Because I've read a few of the reports and inquiries about these different taxes. Do you think the level of data that is collected and that we have and the accuracy of the…
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
I'd be very interested, and I'm sure that my colleagues in the committee would be interested, in hearing that. Coming to the final part of our conversation today—thank you very much for your time again—the previous Welsh Government explored the use of land…
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
You're talking about some of these schemes, and that's great—that you're working with your colleagues across areas. I talk to quite a few charities and people who are going through very regular funding grants and trying to keep very, very good schemes going…
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
Okay. We know that there have been quite a few things coming through now; we've seen universal credit being cut, we've seen gas prices going up, we're seeing an increase in national insurance. That's just a few of these things that are really going to hit…
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
Lovely. Going a little bit further on that point, with inflation starting to rise and the pay awards in place for education and health, how do you think that's going to impact your budgets?
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
Thank you, Peter. I'll bring Mike in now, then. He's been waiting patiently there. Mike.
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Rhianon. I'll bring Peter in now, if I can.
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Introductory session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Evidence session
Thank you, Andrew. I'll come back to Rhianon.
