Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee
room 3, Senedd and
video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: 5 February 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)
</AI2>
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1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
(09.30)
</AI3>
<AI4>
2
Paper(s) to note
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1 PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance
and Welsh Language: Interministerial Standing Committee (F:ISC) -
27 January 2025
(Page 1)
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2 PTN 2 - Letter from the Public Services Ombudsman for
Wales: Response to the Committee's report on the Review into the
operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public
Services Ombudsman for Wales - 24 January 2025
(Pages 2 - 5)
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3 PTN 3 - Letter from the Public Services Ombudsman for
Wales: Response to the Committee's report on the Annual Scrutiny of
the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - 24 January
2025
(Pages 6 - 12)
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4 PTN 4 - Letter from Audit Wales: Response to the
Committee's report on the Annual scrutiny of the Wales Audit Office
and the Auditor General for Wales - 23 January 2025
(Pages 13 - 21)
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5 PTN 5 - Letter from the Llywydd and Chair of the
Senedd Commission: Cardiff Bay 2032 project - 28 January
2025
(Pages 22 - 23)
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.6 PTN 6 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for
Economy, Energy and Planning: Memorandum of Understanding between
the UK government and the Welsh Government: Investment zones - 29
January 2025
(Page 24)
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.7 PTN 7 - Letter from the Comptroller and Auditor
General: Administration of Welsh Rates of Income Tax 2023-24 - 29
January 2025
(Page 25)
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.8 PTN 8 - Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26:
Written information from Sparkle (Children's Charity) - 29 January
2025
(Pages 26 - 27)
</AI12>
<AI13>
3
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy)
Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
(09.30 -
10.30)
(Pages 28 - 85)
Rowland Rees-Evans, Chair, Wales Tourism
Alliance
David Chapman, Executive Director, Wales, UK
Hospitality Cymru
Roy Church, Co-Chair, Welsh Association of
Visitor Attractions
Supporting
documents:
FIN(6)-05-25 P1
– Wales Tourism Alliance
FIN(6)-05-25 P2 – UK Hospitality
Cymru
FIN(6)-05-25 P3 – Welsh Association of
Visitor Attractions
FIN(6)-05-25 P4 – Additional evidence:
Welsh Association of Visitor Attractions
Senedd Research Brief
</AI13>
<AI14>
Break
(10.30 -
10.40)
</AI14>
<AI15>
4
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy)
Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
(10.40 -
11.40)
(Pages 86 - 131)
Zoë Hawkins, Chief Executive, MWT
Cymru
Emma Thornton, Chief Executive, Visit
Pembrokeshire
Jim Jones, Managing Director, North Wales
Tourism
Iwan Thomas, Chief Executive, PLANED
Supporting
documents:
FIN(6)-05-25 P5 – MWT Cymru
FIN(6)-05-25 P6 – Visit
Pembrokeshire
FIN(6)-05-25 P7 – North Wales
Tourism
FIN(6)-05-25 P8 – PLANED
Senedd Research Brief
</AI15>
<AI16>
5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting.
</AI16>
<AI17>
6
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy)
Etc. (Wales) Bill: Consideration of evidence
(11.40 -
12.00)
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