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
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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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