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Enterprise and Business Committee |
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Meeting Venue: |
Committee Room 2 - Senedd |
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Meeting date: |
Wednesday, 17 June 2015 |
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Meeting time: |
09.15 - 12.10 |
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This meeting can be viewed on
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Concise Minutes: |
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Assembly Members: |
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William Graham AM (Chair) Mick Antoniw AM Mohammad Asghar (Oscar) AM Jeff Cuthbert AM Keith Davies AM Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM Rhun ap Iorwerth AM Eluned Parrott AM Joyce Watson AM |
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Witnesses: |
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Jane Hutt AM, The Minister for Finance and Government Business Howard Allaway, Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales HEPCW Jeff Andrews, Welsh Government Dr Rachel Bowen, Federation of Small Businesses Wales Christopher Chapman, Welsh Local Government Association Gareth Coles, Wales Council for Voluntary Action Iestyn Davies, Federation of Small Businesses Wales Rhodri Jones, Wales Construction Federation Alliance Mark Roscrow, NHS Shared Services Partnership Kerry Stephens, Value Wales Nick Sullivan, Value Wales |
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Committee Staff: |
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Gareth Price (Clerk) Martha Da Gama Howells (Second Clerk) Rachel Jones (Deputy Clerk) Robin Wilkinson (Researcher) |
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Transcript
View the meeting transcript.
1 Introductions, apologies and substitutions
1.1 Apologies for absence were received from Gwenda Thomas AM.
2 Public Procurement
2.1 Dr Rachel Bowen, Iestyn Davies, Gareth Coles and Rhodri Jones answered questions from Members of the Committee.
3 Public Procurement
3.1 Christopher Chapman, Mark Roscrow and Howard Allaway answered questions from Members of the Committee.
4 Public Procurement
4.1 Jane Hutt AM, the Minister for Finance and Government Business, Kerry Stephens, Nick Sullivan and Jeff Andrews answered questions from Members of the Committee.
4.2 The Minister for Finance and Government Business agreed to provide the following:
· A note on the implications of the new general designation for public procurement that the Welsh Government has secured from the UK Government.
· The Minister offered to respond in writing to Mohammad Asghar’s question about whether the NHS could save money by upgrading expensive machinery, rather than replacing it when relatively new, but obsolete due to technological advances.