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
Rhianon Passmore MS
Peter Fox MS (In place of Sam Rowlands MS)
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Witnesses:
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Adrian Crompton, Auditor General for Wales,
Audit Wales
Ann-Marie Harkin, Executive Director for Audit
Services, Audit Wales
Kevin Thomas, Executive Director for Corporate
Services, Audit Wales
Dr Ian Rees, Chair of the Wales Audit Office,
Audit Wales
Matthew Mortlock, Director, Audit Wales
Dave Thomas, Director, Audit Wales
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Committee Staff:
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Georgina Owen (Second Clerk)
Sian Giddins (Second Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Owen Holzinger (Researcher)
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<AI1>
Registration
</AI1>
<AI2>
Private pre-meeting
</AI2>
<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 Sam Rowlnds
MS. Peter Fox MS substituted for Sam Rowlands MS.
1.3 Apologies were received from Rhianon
Passmore MS. There was no substitute for Rhianon Passmore MS.
</AI3>
<AI4>
2
Paper(s) to note
2.1 The papers were noted.
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1
PTN 1 - Welsh Government Draft Budget
2026-27- Written evidence: National Institute of Economic and
Social Research - October 2025
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2
PTN 2 - Welsh Government Draft Budget
2026-27- Written evidence: Professional Association of
Self-Caterers UK, Cymru - October 2025
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3
PTN 3 - Building Safety (Wales) Bill:
Additional information from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and
Local Government - 17 October 2025
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4
PTN 4 - Building Safety (Wales) Bill:
Additional information from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and
Local Government to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution
Committee - 30 October 2025
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5
PTN 5 - Letter from the Office for
National Statistics to the Chair of the Finance Committee: Census
2031 - 28 October 2025
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.6
PTN 6 - Homelessness and Social Housing
Allocation (Wales) Bill - Welsh Government response to the Finance
Committee's report - 30 October 2025
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.7
PTN 7 - Homelessness and Social Housing
Allocation (Wales) Bill - Welsh Government response to the
Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee's report - 30
October 2025
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.8
PTN 8 - Letter from Cabinet Secretary for
Economy, Energy and Planning: Tourism Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG)
- 31 October 2025
</AI12>
<AI13>
2.9
PTN 9 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for the Finance and Welsh Language: Finance:Inter- Ministerial
Standing Committee (F:ISC) – 31 October 2025
</AI13>
<AI14>
2.10 PTN 10 -
Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets)
(Wales) Bill: Welsh Government response to the Finance Committee's
report - 31 October 2025
</AI14>
<AI15>
3
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate
2026-27 and Interim Report 2025-26: Evidence session
3.1 The Committee took evidence on Audit
Wales’s Estimate 2026-27 and Interim Report 2025-26 from
Adrian Crompton, Auditor General for Wales, Audit Wales; Dr Ian
Rees, Chair of the Wales Audit Office, Audit Wales; Kevin Thomas,
Executive Director for Corporate Services, Audit Wales; and
Ann-Marie Harkin, Executive Director for Audit Services, Audit
Wales.
</AI15>
<AI16>
Break
</AI16>
<AI17>
4
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Evidence session 3
4.1 The Committee took evidence on the Welsh
Government’s Draft Budget 2026-27 from Adrian Crompton,
Auditor General for Wales, Audit Wales; Dave Thomas, Director,
Audit Wales; and Matthew Mortlock, Director, Audit Wales.
</AI17>
<AI18>
5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting
5.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI18>
<AI19>
6
Audit Wales - Scrutiny of the Estimate
2026-27 and Interim Report 2025-26: Consideration of
evidence
6.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI19>
<AI20>
7
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Consideration of evidence
7.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI20>
<AI21>
8
Financial implications of the Building
Safety (Wales) Bill: Consideration of draft report
8.1 The Committee considered its draft report
on the financial implications of the Building Safety (Wales) Bill
and agreed it with no changes.
</AI21>
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