Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee
room 5 Ty Hywel and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: 9 November 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 5 October 2022
Minutes of the meeting held on 12 October 2022
Minutes of the meeting held on 20 October 2022
2.1 PTN 1 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Finance: Interministerial Standing Committee (F:ISC) - 19 October 2022
(Page 9)
2.2 PTN 2 - Letter from the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Additional information following the evidence session on 12 October 2022 - 21 October 2022
(Page 10)
2.3 PTN 3 - The Environmental Protection (Single-use Plastic Products) (Wales) Bill: Welsh Government response - 25 October 2022
(Pages 11 - 13)
2.4 PTN 4 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24 Timetable - 24 October 2022
(Pages 14 - 16)
2.5 PTN 5 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Timetable for the Second Supplementary Budget for 2022-23 - 3 November 2022
(Page 17)
3 Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session
(09.30-10.30) (Pages 18 - 31)
Lesley Griffiths MS, Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
James Owen, Deputy Director, Land Management Reform Division
Simon Bilsborough, Land Management Reform Unit
Supporting documents:
Agriculture (Wales) Bill, as introduced (PDF, 345KB)
Explanatory Memorandum (PDF, 3.4MB)
Research Service Brief
4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 5 and 7 and the meetings on 16 November 2022 and 1 December 2022
(10.30)
5 Financial implications of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Consideration of evidence
(10.30-10.45)
Public
6 Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Evidence session
(10.45-12.00) (Pages 32 - 148)
Adrian Crompton, Auditor General for Wales
Lindsay Foyster, Chair of the Wales Audit Office
Kevin Thomas, Executive Director of Corporate Services
Ann-Marie Harkin, Executive Director of Audit Services
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-22-22 P1- Estimate of Income and Expenses for Audit Wales for the year ended 31 March 2024
FIN(6)-22-22 P2 – Supporting information for the Estimate of Income and Expenses for Audit Wales for the year ended 31 March 2024
FIN(6)-22-22 P3 – Interim Report – An assessment of progress made against our 2022-23 Annual Plan during the period 1 April to 30 September 2022
FIN(6)-22-22 P4 - Letter from Ben Robertson on behalf of PCS Union and Prospect Union branches at Audit Wales: Staff Pay - 3 November 2022
Research Service brief
Private
7 Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate 2023-24 and Interim Report: Consideration of evidence
(12.00-12.15)