Meeting Venue:
Video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Meeting time: 09.30 - 11.28
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/11145
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Names |
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Assembly Members: |
Llyr Gruffydd MS (Chair) Alun Davies MS Siân Gwenllian MS Mike Hedges MS Rhianon Passmore MS Nick Ramsay MS Mark Reckless MS |
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Witnesses: |
Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Trefnydd Andrew Jeffreys, Welsh Government Julian Revell, Welsh Government Sarah Govier, Welsh Government |
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Committee Staff: |
Bethan Davies (Clerk) Leanne Hatcher (Second Clerk) Georgina Owen (Second Clerk) Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk) Owen Holzinger (Researcher) Christian Tipples (Researcher) |
1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the virtual meeting of the Finance Committee.
2 Paper(s) to note
2.1 The papers were noted.
2.1 PTN1 – Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: NHS complaints data – 26 November 2020
2.11 PTN2 – Letter from the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales to the Minister for Health and Social Services: NHS complaints data – 1 December 2020
2.3 PTN3 - Letter from ColegauCymru: Furlough - 4 December 2020
2.4 PTN4 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee: Consultation on a revised Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) Code – 8 December 2020
2.5 PTN5 - Letter from the Minister for Education to the Chair of Children, Young People and Education Committee: Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Bill - General Principles debate - 9 December 2020
3 Impact of the UK Government's Spending Review: Evidence session
3.1 The Committee took evidence from Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Trefnydd; Andrew Jeffreys, Director Welsh, Treasury; Julian Revell, Head of Fiscal Analysis, Welsh Treasury; and Sarah Govier, Head of Public Spending Policy on the Impact of the UK Government's Spending Review.
3.2 The Minister for Finance and Trefnydd agreed to provide a note, listing what financial transactions capital has been spent on in 2020-21.
4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
4.1 The motion was agreed.
5 Impact of the UK Government's Spending Review: Consideration of evidence
5.1 The Committee considered the evidence received.
6 Inquiry into the implementation of the Wales Act 2014 and operation of the Fiscal Framework: Key issues
6.1 The Committee considered the key issues paper.
7 Draft Public Audit (Amendment) (Wales) Bill: Consideration of consultation responses
7.1 The Committee considered the documents relating to the Draft Public Audit (Amendment) Wales Bill.
The Committee will be having an informal technical briefing with Welsh Government officials on Land Transaction Tax changes on 21 December.