Agenda - Finance Committee


Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee

room 3, Senedd and video conference

via Zoom

Meeting date: 18 September 2024

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Owain Roberts

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6388

SeneddFinance@senedd.wales


Hybrid

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Registration

(09.00-09.15)

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Private pre-meeting

(09.15-09.30)

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(09.30)                                                                                                             

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2       Paper(s) to note

(09.30)                                                                                          (Pages 1 - 4)

Minutes of the meeting held on 18 July.

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2.1   PTN 1 - Letter from Chief Pharmaceutical Officer to the Auditor General for Wales: Community Pharmacy Data Matching Pilot - 19 July 2024

                                                                                                     (Pages 5 - 8)

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2.2   PTN 2 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office: Statement of Principles for Directly Funded Bodies - 19 July 2024

                                                                                                   (Pages 9 - 10)

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2.3   PTN 3 - Letter from Hefin David MS, Senedd Commissioner: First Supplementary Budget 2024-25 - 19 July 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 11 - 19)

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2.4   PTN 4 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office: Landfill Disposals Tax Avoidance - 23 July 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 20 - 22)

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2.5   PTN 5 - Letter from the Temporary Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee to the Minister for Social Care: Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill - 26 July 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 23 - 25)

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2.6   PTN 6 - Letter from the Minister for Social Care: Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill - Additional information - 26 July 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 26 - 40)

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2.7   PTN 7 - Letter from the Minister for Social Care: Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill - Integrated Impact Assessment summaries - 30 August 2024

                                                                                                           (Page 41)

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2.8   PTN 8 - Joint letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and the Minister for Social Care to the Temporary Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee: Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill - Additional information - 6 September 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 42 - 45)

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2.9   PTN 9 - Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations: Written evidence from the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy of the Autonomous Communities, Spain - 16 July 2024 (This evidence was submitted to the Finance Committee in Spanish only and translated into English with the consent of the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy of the Autonomous Communities)

                                                                                                 (Pages 46 - 62)

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2.10 PTN 10 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office: Fiscal Intergovernmental Relations - 2 August 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 63 - 65)

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2.11 PTN 11 - Letter from Audit Wales: Update on Audit Wales' response to the Committee's report on Annual Scrutiny of the Wales Audit Office and the Auditor General for Wales - 12 August 2024

                                                                                                 (Pages 66 - 67)

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2.12 PTN 12 - Letter from the University and College Union: Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 - 29 August 2024

                                                                                                           (Page 68)

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2.13 PTN 13 - Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs to Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee: Service Level Agreement between Welsh Ministers, Rural Payments Agency and the British Cattle Movement Service - 2 September 2024

                                                                                                           (Page 69)

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3       Financial Transactions Capital: Evidence session 3

(09.30-10.30)                                                                           (Pages 70 - 99)

Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Welsh Language, Welsh Government

Andrew Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh Government

Sharon Bounds, Deputy Director Financial Controls, Welsh Government

 

Supporting documents:

FIN(6)-17-24 P1 – Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Welsh Language, Welsh Government: Written evidence

Senedd Research Brief

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4       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and the start of the meeting on 25 September

(10.30)                                                                                                             

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5       Financial Transactions Capital: Consideration of evidence

(10.30-10.45)                                                                                                  

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6       Cardiff Bay 2032 - Senedd Commission Technical Briefing

(10.45-11.15)                                                                       (Pages 100 - 104)

Ed Williams, Director of Senedd Resources, Senedd Commission

Kate Innes, Chief Finance Officer, Senedd Commission

Jan Koziel, Head of Procurement, Senedd Commission

Andrew Gibson, Director, Avison Young

 

Supporting documents:

Senedd Research Brief

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7       Financial implications of the Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill: Consideration of Draft Report

(11.15-11.45)                                                                       (Pages 105 - 142)

Supporting documents:

FIN(6)-17-24 P2 – Draft report

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8       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Update on the approach to budget scrutiny

(11.45-12.00)                                                                       (Pages 143 - 157)

Supporting documents:

FIN(6)-17-24 P3 –Approach to budget scrutiny: Cover paper

FIN(6)-17-24 P4 - Letter to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office: Welsh Government Draft Budget Timetable 2025-26 - 29 July 2024

FIN(6)-17-24 P5 – Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office: Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26 Timetable update - 8 August 2024

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9       Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum: Update

(12.00-12.15)                                                                       (Pages 158 - 162)

Supporting documents:

FIN(6)-17-24 P6 – Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum: Cover paper

FIN(6)-17-24 P7 - Letter from the Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury - 26 March 2024

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