Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee
room 4 Ty Hywel and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: 20 September 2023
Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:
Owain Roberts
Committee Clerk
0300 200 6388
SeneddFinance@senedd.wales
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Registration (09.00-09.15)
Private Pre-meeting (09.15-09.30)
1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
(09.30)
2 Paper(s) to note
(09.30)
2.1 PTN 1 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Budget timetable 2024-25 - 12 September 2023
(Pages 1 - 2)
3 Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 and the Annual Plan 2024-25: Evidence session
(09.30-10.30) (Pages 3 - 243)
Adrian Crompton, Auditor General for Wales, Audit Wales
Kathryn Chamberlain, Chair of the Wales Audit Office, Audit Wales
Kevin Thomas, Executive Director of Corporate Services
Ann-Marie Harkin, Executive Director of Audit Services
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-14-23 P1 - Audit Wales: Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
FIN(6)-14-23 P2 - Audit Wales: Audit Findings report – Year Ended 31 March 2023
FIN(6)-14-23 P3 - Audit Wales: Annual Plan 2023-24
Research Service Brief
4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
(10.30)
5 Audit Wales - Supplementary Estimate 2023-24
(10.30-10.45) (Pages 244 - 257)
Adrian Crompton, Auditor General for Wales, Audit Wales
Kathryn Chamberlain, Chair of the Wales Audit Office, Audit Wales
Kevin Thomas, Executive Director of Corporate Services
Ann-Marie Harkin, Executive Director of Audit Services
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-14-23 P4 – Audit Wales - Supplementary Estimate 2023-24
FIN(6)-14-23 P5 – Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Cost of living payment – 1 August 2023
FIN(6)-14-23 P6 – Letter to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Cost of living payment – 11 July 2023
6 Technical briefing on administering WRIT: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
(10.45-11.15) (Pages 258 - 267)
Jonathan Athow, Director General of Customer Strategy & Tax Design, HMRC
Katherine Gross-Niklaus, Senior Policy Advisor for Devolved Income Tax, HMRC
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-14-23 P7 – HMRC
Research Service Brief
7 Technical briefing on administering WRIT: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) - Consideration of evidence
(11.15-11.30)
8 Audit Wales – Scrutiny of the Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 and the Annual Plan 2024-25 / Supplementary Estimate 2023-24: Consideration of evidence
(11.30-11.45)
8.1 The Committee considered the evidence received and agreed to write to Audit Wales in relation to the Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23; and the Supplementary Estimate 2023-24.
9 Landfill Disposals Tax (Wales) Act 2017: Independent review
(11.45-12.00) (Pages 268 - 275)
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-14-23 P8 – Cover paper
FIN(6)-14-23 P9 – Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government – 6 July 2023
FIN(6)-14-23 P10 - Land Disposals Tax (Wales) Act 2017: Independent review – Executive summary
Land Disposals Tax (Wales) Act 2017: Independent review (PDF 2 MB)
10 Update on the Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum
(12.00-12.15) (Page 276)
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-14-23 P11 - Update on the Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum
11 Update on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill - Expert Adviser and evidence sessions
(12.15-12.30) (Pages 277 - 278)
Supporting documents:
FIN(6)-14-23 P12 - Update on the Senedd Reform Bill