Meeting Venue: Hybrid -
Committee
room 3, Senedd
and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: Thursday, 7 November 2024
Meeting time: 09.30 - 11.25
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/14908
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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Adrian Crompton, Auditor General for Wales,
Audit Wales
Dr Ian Rees, Chair of the Wales Audit Office,
Audit Wales
Kevin Thomas, Executive Director of Corporate
Services, Audit Wales
Ann-Marie Harkin, Executive Director of Audit
Services, Audit Wales
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Committee Staff:
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Owain Roberts (Clerk)
Georgina Owen (Second Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Owen Holzinger (Researcher)
Božo Lugonja (Researcher)
Ben Harris (Legal Adviser)
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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 Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
</AI3>
<AI4>
2
Paper(s) to note
2.1 The Committee noted the papers.
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1
PTN 1 - Letter from the National
Statistician: Wales-specific Quarterly Growth Data - 21 October
2024
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2
PTN 2 - Health and Social Care (Wales)
Bill: Welsh Government response to the Health and Social Care
Committee's report recommendations - 25 October 2024
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3
PTN 3 - Health and Social Care (Wales)
Bill: Welsh Government response to the Legislation, Justice and
Constitution Committee's report recommendations - 25 October
2024
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4
PTN 4 - Letter from the Public Services
Ombudsman for Wales: Action Plan in relation to the Independent
Review of investigations into Code of Conduct complaints - 29
October 2024
</AI8>
<AI9>
3
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate
2025-26 and Interim Report: Evidence session
3.1 The Committee took evidence on Audit
Wales’s Estimate 2025-26 and Interim Report from Adrian
Crompton, Auditor General for Wales, Audit Wales; Dr Ian Rees,
Chair of the Wales Audit Office, Audit Wales; Kevin Thomas,
Executive Director of Corporate Services, Audit Wales; and
Ann-Marie Harkin, Executive Director of Audit Services, Audit
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 meetings on 20 November and 27 November
4.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI10>
<AI11>
5
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate
2025-26 and Interim Report: Consideration of evidence
5.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI11>
<AI12>
6
Financial Transactions Capital:
Consideration of draft report
6.1 The Committee considered the draft report
and agreed it with minor changes.
</AI12>
<AI13>
7
The Land Transaction Tax (Relief for
Special Tax Sites) (Wales) Regulations 2024
7.1 The Committee considered the briefing note
on the Land Transaction Tax (Relief for Special Tax Sites) (Wales)
Regulations 2024 and noted the
Legislation, Justice and Constitution
Committee’s report on these regulations.
</AI13>
<AI14>
8
Consideration of Forward Work
Programme
8.1 The Committee considered the Forward Work
Programme.
</AI14>
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