Agenda - Finance Committee


Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee

room 3, Senedd and video conference

via Zoom

Meeting date: 30 April 2025

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Owain Roberts

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6388

SeneddFinance@senedd.wales


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1       Introduction, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(09.30)                                                                                                             

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2       Paper(s) to note

(09.30)                                                                                          (Pages 1 - 5)

Minutes of the meetings held on 20 February and 12 March.

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2.1   PTN 1 - Letter from the Senedd Commission: Update to recommendations made in the Committee's report on the Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget 2025-26 - 24 March 2025

                                                                                                   (Pages 6 - 14)

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2.2   PTN 2 - Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Welsh Government response to the Committee's Stage 1 report recommendations - 28 March 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 15 - 24)

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2.3   PTN 3 - Letter from the Electoral Commission: Timing of estimate - 28 March 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 25 - 26)

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2.4   PTN 4 - Letter from the Deputy First Minister on the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill: Logic models and the theory of change - 31 March 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 27 - 28)

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2.5   PTN 5 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care: Handling of complaints about NHS Wales - 4 April 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 29 - 30)

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2.6   PTN 6 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Tourism Inter-Ministerial Group - 9 April 2025

                                                                                                           (Page 31)

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2.7   PTN 7 - Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Welsh Government response to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee's Stage 1 report recommendations - 10 April 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 32 - 41)

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2.8   PTN 8 - Letter from the UK Statistics Authority: Quarterly growth data for Wales - 17 April 2025

                                                                                                           (Page 42)

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2.9   PTN 9 - Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affair: Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee – 22 April 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 43 - 44)

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2.10 PTN 10 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: Publication of the Welsh Government's First Supplementary Budget 2025-26 - 23 April 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 45 - 46)

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3       Post-legislative review of the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019: Evidence session 1

(09.30 - 10.30)                                                                       (Pages 47 - 172)

Michelle Morris, Public Services Ombudsman for Wales

Katrin Shaw, Chief Legal Adviser and Director of Investigations

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4       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting.

(10.30)                                                                                                             

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5       Post-legislative review of the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019: Consideration of evidence

(10.30 - 10.45)                                                                                                

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6       Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Order of consideration for Stage 2 proceedings

(10.45 - 11.00)                                                                     (Pages 173 - 177)

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7       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Update on engagement activities

(11.00 - 11.15)                                                                     (Pages 178 - 188)

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8       Consideration of Forward Work Programme

(11.15 - 11.30)                                                                     (Pages 189 - 204)

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9       Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum: Update

(11.30 - 11.45)                                                                     (Pages 205 - 206)

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