Meeting Venue:
Video Conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 11 May 2022
Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:
Owain Roberts
Committee Clerk
0300 200 6388
SeneddFinance@senedd.wales
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Private pre-meeting - Informal (09.15-09.30)
1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
(09.30)
2 Paper(s) to note
(09.30) (Pages 1 - 8)
Minutes of the meeting held on 2 March
Minutes of the meeting held on 11 March
Minutes of the meeting held on 25 March
2.1 PTN 1 - Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Welsh Government response to the Finance Committee's report - 4 March 2022
(Pages 9 - 38)
2.2 PTN 2 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Financial Transactions Capital allocations - 28 February 2022
(Pages 39 - 42)
2.3 PTN 3 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Further information on issues raised during the session on the second supplementary budget - 23 March 2022
(Pages 43 - 47)
2.4 PTN 4 - Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2021-22: Welsh Government response to the Finance Committee's report - 26 April 2022
(Pages 48 - 65)
2.5 PTN 5 - Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill: Welsh Government response to the Finance Committee's report - 29 March 2022
(Pages 66 - 71)
2.6 PTN 6 - Letter from PCS Union: Use of ‘fire and rehire’ by Welsh public sector bodies - 25 April 2022
(Pages 72 - 73)
2.7 PTN 7 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Budget Improvement Impact Advisory Group (BIIAG) - 25 March 2022
(Pages 74 - 87)
2.8 PTN 8 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Budget Improvement Impact Advisory Group (BIIAG) - 27 April 2022
(Pages 88 - 89)
2.9 PTN 9 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Draft Public Audit (Amendment) Wales Bill - 3 March 2022
(Page 90)
2.10PTN 10 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Draft Public Audit (Amendment) (Wales) Bill - 6 April 2022
(Pages 91 - 93)
2.11PTN 11 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Finance Inter-ministerial Standing Committee (F:ISC) - 11 March 2022
(Page 94)
2.12PTN 12 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Finance Inter-ministerial Standing Committee (F:ISC) - 5 April 2022
(Pages 95 - 96)
2.13PTN 13 - Letter from the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales to the Chair of Local Government and Housing Committee: Casework trends and complaint handling practices of Local Authorities - 8 March 2022
(Pages 97 - 103)
2.14PTN 14 - Letter from the Chair of the Equality and Social Justice Committee: Annual scrutiny of the Future Generations Commissioner: update report - 11 April 2022
(Page 104)
2.15PTN 15 - Joint evidence from tourism industry bodies: Non Domestic Rating Order 2022 - 8 April 2022
(Pages 105 - 122)
2.16PTN 16 - Letter from the Chief Executive and Clerk of the Senedd: Use of the term BAME - 15 Feb 2022
(Pages 123 - 124)
2.17PTN 17 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government - Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill - 22 April 2022
(Pages 125 - 137)
2.18PTN 18 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Approach to the publication of supplementary budgets during 2022-23 - 4 May 2022
(Page 138)
3 Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 1
(09.30-10.15) (Pages 139 - 183)
Chris Llewelyn, Chief Executive, Welsh Local Government Association
Tim Peppin, Director of Regeneration and Sustainable Development, Welsh Local Government Association
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-11-22 P1 – Welsh Local Government Association
Research Service Brief – Background paper
Research Service Brief
FIN(6)-11-22 Letter from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Levelling Up, the Union and Constitution – 6 May 2022 (Included in the supplementary pack)
Break (10.15-10.25)
4 Post-EU funding arrangements: Evidence session 2
(10.25-11.10) (Pages 184 - 202)
Dr Ed Poole, Senior Lecturer, Wales Governance Centre (Wales Fiscal Analysis)
Guto Ifan, Research Associate, Wales Governance Centre (Wales Fiscal Analysis)
David Phillips, Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-11-22 P2 – Wales Governance Centre (Wales Fiscal Analysis)
Institute for Fiscal Studies blog - ‘IFS response to UK Shared Prosperity Fund’
Research Service Brief
5 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and the meeting on 18 May 2022.
(11.10)
6 Post-EU funding arrangements: Consideration of evidence
(11.10-11.25)
7 Audit Wales: Estate Strategy and Five Year Strategic Plan
(11.25-11.55) (Pages 203 - 216)
Adrian Crompton, Auditor General for Wales
Lindsay Foyster, Chair of the Wales Audit Office
Kevin Thomas, Executive Director of Corporate Services
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-11-22 P3 - Presentation slides
Research Service Brief – Audit Wales Accommodation
8 First Supplementary Budget 2022-23: Directly Funded Bodies
(11.55-12.10) (Pages 217 - 219)
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-11-22 P4 - Public Services Ombudsman for Wales Supplementary Estimate 2022-23
FIN(6)-11-22 P5 – Senedd Commission Supplementary Estimate 2022-23 (Included in supplementary pack)
FIN(6)-11-22 Senedd Commission – Annex (Included in supplementary pack)
9 Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24: Stakeholder event
(12.10-12.25) (Pages 220 - 224)
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-11-22 P6 – Stakeholder event