Meeting Venue: Hybrid -
Committee
room 4 Ty Hywel
and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: Thursday, 29 February
2024
Meeting time: 09.30 - 10.55
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/13701
Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Peredur Owen Griffiths MS (Chair)
Peter Fox MS
Mike Hedges MS
Rhianon Passmore MS
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Witnesses:
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Rebecca Evans MS, Cabinet Secretary for
Finance, Constitution & Cabinet Office (Welsh Minister)
Emma Watkins, Welsh Government
Sharon Bounds, Welsh Government
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Committee Staff:
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Owain Roberts (Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Martin Jennings (Researcher)
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<AI1>
Registration
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<AI2>
Private pre-meeting
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<AI3>
1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting
of the Finance Committee.
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<AI4>
2
Paper(s) to note
2.1 The papers were noted.
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1
PTN 1 - Letter from the Counsel General
and Minister for the Constitution: Senedd Cymru (Members and
Elections) Bill - 21 February 2024
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2
PTN 2 - Letter from the Chair of the
Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee: Legislative
Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill - 23 February
2024
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3
PTN 3 - Letter from Sam Rowlands MS:
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - 19 February
2024
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4
PTN 4 - Letter from the Counsel General
and Minister for the Constitution: Inter-Institutional Relations
Agreement: Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee - 26 February
2024
</AI8>
<AI9>
3
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Second
Supplementary Budget 2023-24
3.1 The Committee took evidence on Scrutiny of
the Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2023-24 from
Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Local Government; Emma
Watkins, Deputy Director, Budget and Government Business; and
Sharon Bounds, Deputy Director, Financial Controls
3.2 The Minister agreed to provide the
following:
·
A note on areas of the health and social services MEG that are
currently underspending.
·
A note on the level of subsidy per passenger in relation to trains
in Wales.
</AI9>
<AI10>
4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
and the meeting on 6 March
4.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI10>
<AI11>
5
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Second
Supplementary Budget 2023-24: Consideration of evidence
5.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI11>
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