Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee
room 4 Ty Hywel
and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: 25 September 2024
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)
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Private
Pre-meeting
(09.15-09.30)
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Private
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1
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 -
Pre-budget scrutiny: Chief Economist
(09.30-10.15)
(Pages 1 - 23)
Thomas Nicholls, Chief Economist, Welsh
Government
Julian Revell, Head of Fiscal Analysis, Welsh
Government
Supporting
documents:
FIN(6)-18-24 P1 – Presentation
slides
Senedd Research Brief
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Break
(10.15-10.20)
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Public
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2
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
(10.20)
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3
Paper(s) to note
(10.20)
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<AI9>
3.1 PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for
Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office: Welsh Government First
Supplementary Budget 2024-25 - 18 September 2024
(Pages 24 - 25)
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<AI10>
4
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 -
Pre-budget scrutiny: Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh
Language
(10.20-11.20)
(Pages 26 - 41)
Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for
Finance and Welsh Language
Andrew Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh
Government
Emma Watkins, Deputy Director, Budget and
Government Business, Welsh Government
Supporting
documents:
Senedd Research 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.
(11.20)
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<AI12>
6
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 -
Pre-budget scrutiny: Academics from Bangor University
(11.20-12.00)
(Pages 42 - 54)
Dr Rhys Ap Gwilym, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Bangor
University
Dr Edward Jones, Senior Lecturer in Economics,
Bangor University
Supporting
documents:
FIN(6)-18-24 P2 – Presentation
slides
Senedd Research Brief
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7
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 -
Pre-budget scrutiny: Consideration of evidence
(12.00.12.10)
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8
Oversight of Audit Wales: Code of
practice governing the relationship between the Auditor General for
Wales and the Wales Audit Office
(12.10-12.15)
(Pages 55 - 92)
Supporting
documents:
FIN(6)-18-24 P3 – Cover paper
FIN(6)-18-24 P4 – Letter from Audit
Wales: The code of practice governing the relationship between the
AGW and the WAO – 9 September 2024
</AI14>
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9
Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations:
Consideration of draft report
(12.15-12.30)
(Pages 93 - 159)
Supporting
documents:
FIN(6)-18-24 P5 – Draft report
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