Meeting Venue: Hybrid -
Committee
room 2, Senedd
and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: Thursday, 26 June 2025
Meeting time: 09.00 - 10.22
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15130
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)
Mike Hedges MS
Sam Rowlands MS
Buffy Williams MS (In place of Rhianon
Passmore MS)
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Witnesses:
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Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for
Finance and Welsh Language
Sharon Bounds, Welsh Government
Andrew Jeffreys, Welsh Government
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Committee Staff:
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Owain Roberts (Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Martin Jennings (Researcher)
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<AI1>
Registration
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<AI2>
Private pre-meeting
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<AI3>
1
Introduction, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting
of the Finance Committee.
1.2 Apologies were received from Rhianon
Passmore MS. Buffy Williams MS substituted for Rhianon Passmore
MS.
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<AI4>
2
Paper(s) to note
2.1 The papers were noted.
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1
PTN 1 - Letter from the Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural
Affairs: Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement: Intergovernmental
Relations Annual Report - 5 June 2025
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2
PTN 2 - Letter from the First Minister:
Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement: Council of the Nations and
Regions and other intergovernmental meetings- 9 June
2025
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3
PTN 3 - Letter from the Legislation,
Justice and Constitution Committee to the Cabinet Secretary for
Finance and Welsh Language: Finance: Interministerial Standing
Committee (F:ISC) - 13 June 2025
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4
PTN 4 - Letter from third sector
providers of supported living across Wales to the Cabinet Secretary
for Finance and Welsh Language: National Insurance pressures on
third sector supported living providers - 10 June 2025
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5
PTN 5 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Transport and North Wales: Additional information on the Bus
Services (Wales) Bill - 12 June 2025
</AI9>
<AI10>
3
First Supplementary Budget 2025-26:
Evidence session
3.1 The Committee took evidence on the First
Supplementary Budget 2025-26 from Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet
Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, Welsh Government; Andrew
Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh Government; and Sharon Bounds,
Deputy Director, Financial Controls, Welsh Government.
</AI10>
<AI11>
4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting.
4.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI11>
<AI12>
5
First Supplementary Budget 2025-26:
Consideration of evidence
5.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI12>
<AI13>
6
Changes to the Budget Process Protocol
and related budgetary procedures
6.1 The Committee considered the
correspondence and agreed the draft letters to the Cabinet
Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, and to the Electoral
Commission.
</AI13>
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