Concise Minutes - Public Accounts Committee

Meeting Venue: This meeting can be viewed Committee Room 4 - Tŷ Hywel on TV at: Meeting date: Monday, 7 December 2020 http://senedd.tv/en/6465 Meeting time: 09.00 - 12.01

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Attendance

Category Names

Nick Ramsay MS (Chair)

Gareth Bennett MS

Angela Burns MS

Assembly Members: MS

Delyth Jewell MS

Rhianon Passmore MS

Jenny Rathbone MS

Shan Morgan,

Gawain Evans, Welsh Government

Witnesses: Natalie Pearson, Welsh Government

Peter Kennedy, Welsh Government

David Richards, Welsh Government

Adrian Crompton

Richard Harries Committee Staff: Matthew Mortlock

Fay Bowen (Clerk)

Claire Griffiths (Deputy Clerk)

Joanne McCarthy (Researcher)

1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed the Members to the meeting.

2 Scrutiny of Accounts 2019-20: Evidence session with the Welsh Government

2.1 The Members scrutinised the Permanent Secretary on the Welsh Governments’ Consolidated Accounts and Report 2019-20.

2.2 The Permanent Secretary agreed to send additional information on a number of issues.

3 Paper(s) to note

3.1 The papers were noted.

3a Auditor General for Wales Report: Covering teachers’ absence: Follow-up (12

November 2020)

3b Medicines Management: Letter from the Welsh Government (16 November 2020)

3c Auditor General for Wales Letter: Preparations for the end of Brexit transition (16

November 2020)

3d Auditor General for Wales Report: Code of Audit Practice (30 October 2020)

3e Auditor General for Wales Report: Providing Free School Meals During Lockdown

(24 November 2020)

3f Auditor General for Wales Report: NHS Wales Finances Data Tool (27 November

2020)

3g Community Safety in Wales: Correspondence from the Welsh Government

(November 2020)

4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:

4.1 The motion was agreed.

5 Scrutiny of Accounts 2019-20: Consideration of evidence received

5.1 Members considered the evidence received.