Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee
room 4 Tŷ
Hywel and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: 20 November 2025
Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:
Owain Roberts
Committee Clerk
0300 200
6565
SeneddFinance@senedd.wales
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Registration
(09.00 -
09.15)
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<AI2>
Private
pre-meeting
(09.15 -
09.30)
</AI2>
<AI3>
1
Introduction, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
(09.30)
</AI3>
<AI4>
2
Paper(s) to note
(09.30)
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1 PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for
Economy, Energy and Planning: Local Growth Fund - 7 November
2025
(Pages 1 - 2)
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2 PTN 2 - Letter from the Deputy First Minister and
Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Independent
Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) Secretariat Annual reports for
2022-23 and 2023-24 - 11 November 2025
(Page 3)
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3 PTN 3 - Letter from the Welsh NHS Confederation -
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Inflationary
pressures - 11 November 2025
(Pages 4 - 5)
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4 PTN 4 - Letter from the Welsh Local Government
Association (WLGA) - Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget
2026-27: Inflationary pressures - 12 November 2025
(Pages 6 - 7)
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5 PTN 5 - Senedd Commission response to the Finance
Committee's report on the Senedd Commission Budget 2026-27 - 11
November 2025
(Pages 8 - 14)
</AI9>
<AI10>
3
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Evidence session 6
(09.30
-10.30)
(Pages 15 - 48)
Professor Melanie Jones, Academic Lead, Wales
Productivity Forum
Professor Arnab Bhattacharjee, Regional
Modelling and Microsimulation, National Institute of Economic and
Social Research
</AI10>
<AI11>
Break
(10.30 -
10.45)
</AI11>
<AI12>
4
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Evidence session 7
(10.45 -
11.45)
(Pages 49 - 124)
Marc Strathie, Devolved senior policy advisor,
Institute of Directors
Josh Miles, Head of Wales, Federation of Small
Businesses (FSB) Wales
Sara Jones, Head of the Welsh Retail
Consortium
</AI12>
<AI13>
5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from items 6, 7, 8 and 10
(11.45)
</AI13>
<AI14>
6
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Consideration of evidence
(11.45 -
12.00)
</AI14>
<AI15>
7
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales -
Annual Report and Accounts 2024-25, and Estimate 2026-27:
Consideration of draft report
(12.00 -
12.15)
(Pages 125 - 153)
</AI15>
<AI16>
8
Annual scrutiny of the Wales Audit Office
and the Auditor General for Wales: Consideration of draft
report
(12.15 -
12.30)
(Pages 154 - 194)
</AI16>
<AI17>
Break
(12.30 -
13.00)
</AI17>
<AI18>
9
Financial implications of the Senedd
Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill: Evidence
session
(13.00 -
14.00)
(Pages 195 - 213)
Julie James MS, Counsel General and Minister
for Delivery
Ryan Price, Head of Senedd Policy, Welsh
Government
Will Whiteley, Deputy Director, Senedd Reform,
Welsh Government
Supporting
documents
Senedd
Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill, as introduced
(PDF, 1.3MB)
Explanatory
Memorandum (PDF, 1.3MB)
</AI18>
<AI19>
10
Financial implications of the Senedd
Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill: Consideration of
evidence
(14.00 -
14.15)
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