Concise Minutes - Public Accounts Committee
Meeting Venue: This meeting can be viewed Committee Room 4 - Tŷ Hywel on Senedd 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: Vikki Howells MS
Delyth Jewell MS
Rhianon Passmore MS
Jenny Rathbone MS
Shan Morgan, Welsh Government
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.