Public Accounts Committee

Meeting Venue: Committee Room 3 - Senedd
Meeting date: 24 September 2012
Meeting time: 14:00
For further information please contact:
Policy: Tom Jackson Committee Clerk 029 2089 8597 / 029 2089 8032 Publicaccounts.comm@Wales.gov.uk

Agenda

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1. Introductions, apologies and substitutions (14:00 - 14:05)

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2. Briefing from the Auditor General for Wales on the Wales Audit Office report 'The educational attainment of looked after children and young people' (14:05 - 14:30) (Pages 1 - 69)

PAC(4) 17-12 – Paper 1 – Wales Audit Office report ‘The educational attainment of looked after children and young people’

Huw Vaughan Thomas, Auditor General for Wales

Stephen Martin, Manager – Performance Audit    

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

Items 4 and 7.

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4. Options for handling 'The educational attainment of looked after children and young people' (14:30 - 14:45)

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Break (14:45 - 15:00)

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Public session

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5. Public Audit (Wales) Bill - Evidence from the Minister for Finance and Leader of the House (15:00 - 16:00)

Jane Hutt AM, Minister for Finance and Leader of the House

Reg Kilpatrick, Director of Local Government & Public Service, Welsh Government

Nicola Charles, Lawyer, Welsh Government

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6. Public Audit (Wales) Bill - Evidence from the Auditor General for Wales (16:00 - 17:00) (Pages 70 - 93)

PAC(4) 17-12 – Paper 2 – Auditor General for Wales

Huw Vaughan Thomas, Auditor General for Wales

Mike Usher, Group Director – Financial Audit

Martin Peters, Compliance Manager

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Private session

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7. Consideration of evidence on Public Audit (Wales) Bill (17:00 - 17:15)

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8. Papers to note (Pages 94 - 95)

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