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Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Colin Beattie
Several years ago, you were paying people coming into technology according to a civil service scale, but then, because of the shortages, you took posts off the scale and started to pay according to market.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Colin Beattie
You have an enormous number of projects. The resources that are needed to prioritise them must be considerable.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Colin Beattie
Can I ask for an interpretation of your letter? You state that there will be “targeted support” and
“Greater control over digital capability”.
Is that simply about sharing resources and people?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Colin Beattie
I will move on to a slightly different issue. You touched on the need to prioritise projects. How do you decide which projects to prioritise? What criteria are used? It is not just about whether you have the right skills available for a project; projects in themselves have a priority and need to be staffed in order to deliver for the public good. How do you do the prioritisation process?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Colin Beattie
Who is making the decision now?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Colin Beattie
You assess the pipeline rather than the existing projects and the impact that they will make.
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Colin Beattie
Is there a timeframe?
Public Audit Committee
Major Information and Communications Technology Projects
Meeting date: 8 December 2022
Colin Beattie
The committee would be interested in how it progresses, because the process still seems a bit fragmented down to departmental level. I will conclude by asking one simple and easy question about the R100 programme. What do the savings from that mean for delivery?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Just Transition
Meeting date: 7 December 2022
Colin Beattie
Obviously, hydrogen is only one area. There are many other products that may or may not succeed and which may or may not end up being a large part of the economy. Are you satisfied that Government policy is keeping pace with that and is providing the guidance, infrastructure and so on within which companies can develop those products? How do you keep up to speed on that?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Just Transition
Meeting date: 7 December 2022
Colin Beattie
I want to raise a specific issue that affects my constituents. Although we are encouraging people to invest in green heating systems—solar systems in particular—people who live in conservation areas in my constituency are finding their planning applications for solar panels being routinely rejected, which seems ridiculous. Is there any possibility of the Government providing better guidelines and so on to councils to encourage the uptake of solar panels and other greener energy systems, given that all those applications are just being rejected?
