Issue - meetings

Hedd Vaughan-Evans, Head of Operations, to present the report.

To accept and approve the Annual Governance Statement.

As the Chair was experiencing technical difficulties, the meeting was chaired by the Vice-chair, Councillor Mark Pritchard, during the discussion on this item.

The report was submitted by Hedd Vaughan-Evans (Head of Operations).

RESOLVED to accept and approve the Annual Governance Statement.

REASONS FOR THE DECISION

The Accounts and Audit (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 set fixed requirements on public bodies that operate partnership management arrangements through formal joint committees.

Section 5 requires the Joint Committee to review and approve a statement of internal management.  The Annual Governance Statement has been prepared to comply with this requirement. The document had been produced to offer a framework for the Ambition Board's operation.

DISCUSSION

Referring to the table on page 13 of the English version of the Governance Statement, it was noted that there were two asterisks at the side of the Amber Delivery Confidence Assessment for Holyhead Port, however there was no further explanation regarding this.   In response, it was explained that: -

·         The two asterisks referred to the fact that at the time we were waiting for the Welsh Government to sign the Harbour Revision Order, that was seen by the team as a significant risk outside the control of the project itself.  

·         The Welsh Government had by now signed the Order and therefore the risk had been removed.

·         The only purpose of the asterisk near the reference to the Gateway 2 PAR Review for the Last Few % Project was to explain the meaning of PAR, however this explanation had not been included in the document either.  

·         These asterisks would be added to the final version of the Statement. 

It was noted that there were no asterisks opposite the projects in the Welsh version of the Statement, and it was explained that the team would also amend that version and would ensure consistency between both languages.