Agenda - Finance Committee


Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee

room 3, Senedd and video conference

via Zoom

Meeting date: 23 January 2025

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)                                                                                                             

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2.1   PTN 1 - Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill: Welsh Government response to the Finance Committee's report recommendations - 13 January 2025

                                                                                                     (Pages 1 - 5)

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2.2   PTN 2 - Letter from the Women's Equality Network (WEN) Wales to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill - 10 January 2025

                                                                                                     (Pages 6 - 7)

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2.3   PTN 3 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: Implications of Budgets not being approved by the Senedd - 16 January 2025

                                                                                                     (Pages 8 - 9)

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2.4   PTN 4 - Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Additional information received from the WLGA in relation to the Shared Prosperity Fund - 16 January 2025

                                                                                                           (Page 10)

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2.5   PTN 5 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Inter-Ministerial Group for Business and Industry - 17 January 2025

                                                                                                           (Page 11)

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3       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 8

(09.30 - 11.15)                                                                         (Pages 12 - 50)

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:

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025 - 2026

Senedd Research Brief

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4       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from items 5, 6 and 9; and the start of the meeting on 30 January 2025

                                                                                                                          

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5       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Consideration of evidence

(11.15 - 11.30)                                                                                                

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6       Second Supplementary Budget 2024-25 requests from Directly Funded Bodies

(11.30 - 12.00)                                                                         (Pages 51 - 74)

Supporting documents:

FIN(6)-03-25 P1 – Cover paper: Second Supplementary Budget 2024-25 requests from Directly Funded Bodies

FIN(6)-03-25 P2 – Public Services Ombudsman for Wales

FIN(6)-03-25 P3 – Senedd Commission

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Lunch

(12.00 - 13.00)

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Public

 

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7       Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2

(13.00 - 14.00)                                                                       (Pages 75 - 105)

Dr Rhys Ap Gwilym, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Bangor Business School, Bangor University

Dr Linda Osti, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, Bangor Business School, Bangor University

 

Supporting documents:

FIN(6)-03-25 P4 – Bangor Business School, Bangor University

Senedd Research Brief

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Break

(14.00 - 14.10)

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8       Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3

(14.10 - 15.10)                                                                     (Pages 106 - 149)

Professor Calvin Jones, Professor of Economics, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University

 

Supporting documents:

FIN(6)-03-25 P5 – Professor Calvin Jones

Senedd Research Brief

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Private

 

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9       Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Consideration of evidence

(15.10 - 15.30)                                                                                                

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