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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Jane Hutt MS, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Will Whiteley, Welsh Government
Gareth Davies, National Audit Office
Lee Summerfield, National Audit Office
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Committee Staff:
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Owain Roberts (Clerk)
Leanne Hatcher (Second Clerk)
Cerian Jones (Second Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Christian Tipples (Researcher)
Owen Holzinger (Researcher)
Božo Lugonja (Researcher)
Ben Harris (Legal Adviser)
Catherine McKeag (Citizen Engagement
Manager)
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<AI1>
Private pre-meeting /
Registration
</AI1>
<AI2>
1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting
of the Finance Committee.
1.2 Apologies were received from Rhianon
Passmore MS for items 4-6 and 10.
</AI2>
<AI3>
2
Paper(s) to note
2.1 The papers were noted.
</AI3>
<AI4>
2.1
PTN 1 - Letter from the Minister for
Finance and Local Government: Additional information following the
evidence session on the second supplementary budget 2023-24 - 18
March 2024
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.2
PTN 2 - Letter from the Minister for
Finance and Local Government: Finance: Interministerial Standing
Committee Meeting - 19 March 2024
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.3
PTN 3 - Letter from the Senedd
Commission: Further information on recommendations made in the
Finance Committee's report on the Scrutiny of the Commission's
Draft Budget 2024-25 - 19 March 2024
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.4
PTN 4 - Letter from the Senedd
Commission: Response to recommendations made in the Committee's
report on the Financial Implications of the Senedd Cymru (Members
and Elections) Bill - 20 March 2024
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.5
PTN 5 - Letter from the Legislation,
Justice and Constitution Committee to the Minister for Climate
Change: Welsh Government’s Legislative Consent Memoranda on
the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill - 19 Mar 2024
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.6
PTN 6 - Letter from the Legislation,
Justice and Constitution Committee: Welsh Government’s
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill - 19
March 2024
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.7
PTN 7 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Housing, Local Government and Planning: Welsh
Government’s Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters
(Reform) Bill - 8 April 2024
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.8
PTN 8 - Joint letter from the
Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee, and the Finance
Committee: Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify Act) 2022: Section
6 (Review of operation and effect of this Act) - 19 March
2024
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.9
PTN 9 - Letter from Philip Rycroft:
Additional information on Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations - 11
April 2024
</AI12>
<AI13>
2.10 PTN 10 -
Welsh Government response to the Finance Committee's report
recommendations on the Financial implications of the Local
Government Finance (Wales) Bill - 11 April 2024
</AI13>
<AI14>
2.11 PTN 11 -
Response from the Member in Charge to the Finance Committee's
report recommendations on the Financial implications of the
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - 15 April
2024
</AI14>
<AI15>
3
Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations:
Evidence session 2
3.1 The Committee took evidence on its inquiry
into Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations from Gareth Davies,
Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit Office; and Lee
Summerfield, Director of Investigations, National Audit Office.
3.2 The National Audit Office agreed to
provide a note on the following:
·
Details regarding the deficits faced by Health Boards in England
that were written off by HM Treasury.
</AI15>
<AI16>
Break
</AI16>
<AI17>
4
Financial implications of the Senedd
Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Evidence
session
4.1 The Committee took evidence on the
Financial implications of the Senedd Cymru (Electoral Candidate
Lists) Bill from Jane Hutt MS, Trefnydd and Chief Whip, Welsh
Government; and Will Whiteley, Deputy Director, Senedd Reform
Division, Welsh Government.
</AI17>
<AI18>
5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting
5.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI18>
<AI19>
6
Financial implications of the Senedd
Cymru (Electoral Candidate Lists) Bill: Consideration of
evidence
6.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI19>
<AI20>
7
Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations:
Consideration of evidence
7.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI20>
<AI21>
8
Wales Audit Office Board
Membership
8.1 The Committee considered the supporting
documents relating to this item.
</AI21>
<AI22>
9
Motion to instruct the Finance Committee
relating to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales
9.1 The Committee considered the cover paper
and noted the motion.
</AI22>
<AI23>
10
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft
Budget 2025-26: Approach to engagement
10.1 The Committee considered the paper on its
approach to engagement relating to the scrutiny of the Draft Budget
2025-26.
</AI23>
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