Public bodies and the civil service

Mark DrakefordLabour

21 October 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

The Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: evidence session

…we've a significant history now of a maturing relationship between the Welsh Government and the arm's-length bodies that it establishes, which aims to make sure that those bodies are aligned with the democratically agreed purposes of the Welsh Government, but have a sufficient degree of independence…

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Heledd FychanPlaid

17 October 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Books Council of Wales (7)

Thank you for that clarification about that. Obviously, some arm's-length bodies did receive some additional funding, but to be clear, you haven't had any in this financial year.

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Dominic Houlihan

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

Yes. So, those unregulated public bodies—and, again, just to clarify that regulated and unregulated status only refers to public appointments and not the scrutiny and the accountability for the performance of those public bodies—unregulated public bodies would still need to go through the usual…

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Tim Moss

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

But they're part of the system that we have. So, the forward look that the public bodies team will have will include those unregulated bodies that are saying they will comply with it, as well as the regulated, so they're built into the system then that we have for managing public appointments.

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Tim Moss

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

…through our Cais system and the processes that we have around that, and managing that process, and the public bodies unit are involved within that, looking after those appointments. So, they follow the standard process that we'd have for regulated and unregulated, because they voluntarily adhere to…

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Mark IsherwoodConservative

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

Okay. The Permanent Secretary told us on 15 April that only some of the unregulated public bodies in Wales follow the governance code on public appointments. Welsh Government's evidence paper for this session states that Welsh Ministers are responsible for making appointments to 52 non-regulated…

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Mark IsherwoodConservative

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

…I'd be grateful for that. What oversight role is there, if any, for the Senedd in deciding which public bodies should be regulated?

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Mark IsherwoodConservative

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

How does the Welsh Government communicate any proposals to amend the Order in Council to citizens, public bodies and the Senedd?

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Mark IsherwoodConservative

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

Okay, thank you. In practical terms, what is the process for adding or removing Welsh devolved public bodies from the Order in Council works?

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Tim Moss

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

Ministers are responsible for that. That's in conjunction with advice from the public bodies unit and also guidelines from the Cabinet Office around that. That takes in a number of factors around any organisation that's being set up, such as its status, whether appointments are ministerial ones, the…

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Mike HedgesLabour

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

…me is sitting here in 20 years' time asking the same questions and the answer we get is the standard civil service response, 'It's ongoing.'

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Dominic Houlihan

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

…similar challenges in terms of the way that recruitment and progression look across the wider Welsh civil service in the Welsh Government. So, there are a lot of overlaps between the lessons learned through the RedQuadrant review—albeit it is an internal civil service matter, it's not a public…

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Dominic Houlihan

17 October 2024, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee

Public Appointments: evidence session with Welsh Government

…than having independent mini ones. This is incredibly important, because we need to make sure that the public bodies serve and reflect the public of Wales. That's also a key theme from the leadership chapter of the anti-racist action plan.

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