Agenda - Finance Committee


Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee

room 4, Senedd and video conference

via Zoom

Meeting date: 7 February 2024

Meeting time: 10.15
For further information contact:

Owain Roberts

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6388

SeneddFinance@senedd.wales


Hybrid

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Registration

(09.45-10.00)

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Private, pre-meeting

(10.00-10.15)

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1       Introductions, apologies and subtituions

(10.15)                                                                                                             

 

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2       Papers to note

(10.15)                                                                                                             

 

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2.1   PTN 1 -Public Services Ombudsman for Wales response to  the Committee's report on the Annual scrutiny Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - 26 January 2024

                                                                                                     (Pages 1 - 6)

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2.2   PTN 2 - Welsh Government response to the Committee's report on the Financial Implications of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill - 26 January 2024

                                                                                                   (Pages 7 - 12)

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2.3   PTN 3 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: The Non-Domestic Rating (Miscellaneous And Consequential Amendments To Secondary Legislation) (Wales) Regulations 2024 - 17 January 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 13 - 27)

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2.4   PTN 4- Letter from Audit Wales: Response to the Finance Committee Annual Scrutiny of the Wales Audit Office – 1 February 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 28 - 38)

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2.5   PTN 5- Elections and Elected Bodies (Wales) Bill: Welsh Government response - 1 February 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 39 - 40)

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3       Financial Implications of the Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence session

(10.15-11:00)                                                                           (Pages 41 - 83)

Jeremy Miles MS, Minister for Education and Welsh Language

Emyr Harries, Deputy Director, Education Business & Governance, Welsh Government

Lloyd Hopkin, Deputy Director, Curriculum, Welsh Government.

 

Attached Documents:

Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill, as introduced

Explanatory Memorandum

Research Service Brief

FIN(6)-04-24 - Paper 1 - Welsh Government Evidence Paper

FIN(6)-04-24 Paper 2 - Letter from Sam Rowlands MS to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee, 23 January 2024

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Break

(11.00-11.15)

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4       Financial Implications of the Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill: Evidence session

(11.15-12.15)                                                                         (Pages 84 - 111)

Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Local Government

Simon Tew – Bill Manager, Welsh Government

Ben Crudge - Head of Local Tax Policy, Welsh Government

 

Attached Documents:

Local Government Finance (Wales) Bill

Explanatory Memorandum

Research Service Brief

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5       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting

(12.15)                                                                                                             

 

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6       Financial implications of Senedd Bills: Consideration of evidence

(12.15-12.30)                                                                                                  

 

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