Public Accounts Committee

Meeting Venue: Committee Room 3 - Senedd

Meeting date: 18 October 2011

Meeting time: 09:00

For further information please contact:
Bethan Webber Committee Clerk 029 2089 8409 Publicaccounts.comm@Wales.gov.uk

Agenda

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1. Introductions, apologies and substitutions (9:00-9:05)

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

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3. Update on the Estimate of Income and Expenditure of the WAO for the year ending 31 March 2012 (9:05-9:20)

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4. Briefing from the Auditor General for Wales on the Wales Audit Office report on Picture of Public Services 2011 (9:20-10:00) (Pages 1 - 59)

PAC(4)-06-11 – Paper 1 – Wales Audit Office report: Picture of Public Services 2011 – The key financial challenges facing Welsh public services

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Public session

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5. The delivery of ICT services and ICT projects under the Merlin contract: Evidence from The Permanent Secretary (10:00-11:00) (Pages 60 - 121)

PAC(4)-06-11 – Paper 2 – Wales Audit Office report – The delivery of ICT services and ICT projects under the Merlin contract

Dame Gillian Morgan, Permanent Secretary

Bernard Galton, Director General, People, Places and Corporate Services

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6. Papers to note (Pages 122 - 131)

PAC(4)-06-11 – Paper 3 – Correspondence from the Auditor General for Wales

PAC(4)-06-11 – Paper 4 – Wales Audit Office ICT Strategy 2009-2012

PAC(4)-04-11 (Minutes)

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