, Health and Social Care Committee
Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
So, it is the optimal system?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Just very briefly, I'm just thinking of MOD and some of the commissioned vehicles and the health of some of those as we move forward. I know that this has been around for a very long time and, with WCCIS in its new iteration, there's nervousness around…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Scrutiny of Digital Health and Care Wales: Evidence session with Digital Health and Care Wales
Thank you very much. Mike Hedges has mentioned buy-in and you've mentioned clinical leadership and the importance of the CaNISC system and the risks around technical and systems. What about the broader risks in terms of the organisation? Very briefly, if I…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
If I just may, obviously there's a large drop since 2014, but these things are very fluid. I'm just very interested, briefly, that as we are securing more senior roles for more women within the commission and wider, why is there a drop? Is there any…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
And finally, in regard to the fixed-term appointments to the team around business and post-completion monitoring, I believe they're due to finish in the summer, so what happens then?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Thank you very much, Chair. You've referenced the ongoing nature of this post-completion monitoring. What resources, in the current dire financial climate that we're in and that we face moving forward, have been allocated to this or have you identified for…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Thank you. You've obviously referred in your documents, and today, that this is going to be ongoing for some time, and also in terms of post-completion phase 3 work. Are there revised timescales for completing post-completion monitoring, because, obviously…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Okay. And I would presume, hopefully, successfully, to prosecution, if that were to be evidenced. In its memorandum, Audit Wales refers to a further pilot being undertaken for post-completion monitoring before the roll-out for phase 3. Will you expand on…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
And have you identified any very large-scale frauds that you're concentrating on, without detail?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Thank you for that. I don't think anyone underestimates the crisis situation that everyone was facing at the time. How much ineligible or double funding have you identified and how much have you clawed back?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Okay, thank you. Audit Wales's report from July this year said that you were at various stages with the post-completion monitoring for Welsh Government's administered schemes with activity under way up to phase three and further activity planned. Can you…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Thank you very much, Chair. I would like to start my questioning off with a statement, if I may, and that is to say that local government has actually carried out a phenomenal job in terms of its delivery of Welsh Government grants and UK grants. So, on to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Okay, thank you.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
In regard to the 0.08 per cent to 4 per cent rate that we've been talking about, is it possible to disaggregate the ineligible application—the error—from the fraud? No.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Thank you, and then I'll go onto my questions. This was just really for clarification, which you seemed to have delivered. Is it possible to disaggregate the ineligible error rates from the fraud rates, because it's very difficult to contrast otherwise?…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Chair, could I just follow up, please? Just for clarity, in terms of being able to be certain about what you can and can't do. We're clear on the set lines of the budget, but if there is a precedent of flexibility then you will use that precedent of…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Okay. Thank you, Chair. I could stay longer, but I won't.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
And that there isn't a reliance on any flexibility.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
So, what lessons can be learned, bearing in mind that we seem to be not knowing what our limits are?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
But this is £155 million.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
It's a general response, but I'm still confused in regard to what seems to be an ability previously for a flexible approach around this carry forward. Obviously, you've got your departmental limits. So, is it practice to be able to carry forward, as seems to…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Okay. Thank you. My last question, really, is pertaining to what the Minister has referenced previously to this committee: what seems to have been precedent or normal practice in terms of carrying forward. So, as we are aware, the Treasury rejected, this…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
I think that sounds sensible as a way forward. The summary of resource outturn shows a net, as you know, underspend of £526 million. The accounts for 2020-21 don't explain the implication of the underspend—a topic of great interest to us—on the Welsh budget…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Scrutiny of Accounts—Welsh Government 2020-21
Okay, thank you. I'm going to move on. You've mentioned the variances and you've talked to some of the context around that. The Welsh Government has previously stated that the variances are explained in the outturn report, and that was sent to the Finance…
