Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee
room 5 Tŷ
Hywel and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: 1 December 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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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
Transport and North Wales: Bus Services (Wales) Bill - Wales Centre
for Public Policy Report - 17 November 2025
(Pages 1 - 2)
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2 PTN 2 - Letter from Cabinet Secretary for Finance and
Welsh Language: Roundtable discussions on funding the Devolved
Governments, and Welsh Taxes - 18 November 2025
(Pages 3 - 6)
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3 PTN 3 - Welsh Government response to the Finance
Committee's report: Post-legislative review of the Public Services
Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019 - 17 November 2025
(Pages 7 - 8)
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4 PTN 4 - Letter from Audit Wales: Audit Fees
Consultation 2026-27 - 17 November 2025
(Pages 9 - 16)
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5 PTN 5 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance
and Welsh Language: Budget Process Protocol - 18 November
2025
(Pages 17 - 18)
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.6 PTN 6 - Letter from the Deputy First Minister and
Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Prohibition
of the Greyhound Racing (Wales) Bill - 18 November 2025
(Pages 19 - 29)
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.7 PTN 7 - Letter from the Deputy First Minister and
Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs:
Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee (IMSC) - 18 November
2025
(Page 30)
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.8 PTN 8 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance
and Welsh Language: Development of Tourism and Regulation of
Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Bill - 18 November 2025
(Pages 31 - 35)
</AI12>
<AI13>
2.9 PTN 9 - Letter from the Chair of the Member
Accountability Committee: Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and
Elections) Bill – consultation responses - 24 November
2025
(Page 36)
</AI13>
<AI14>
2.10 PTN
10 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh
Language: Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor
Accommodation (Wales) Bill - 25 November 2025
(Pages 37 - 47)
</AI14>
<AI15>
2.11 PTN
11 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North
Wales: Bus Services (Wales) Bill – Revised Explanatory
Memorandum and Regulatory Impact Assessment - 25 November
2025
(Pages 48 - 51)
</AI15>
<AI16>
3
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Evidence session 8
(09.30 -
10.15)
(Pages 52 - 82)
Professor David Miles, Budget Responsibility
Committee Member, Office for Budget Responsibility
Tom Josephs, Budget Responsibility Committee
Member, Office for Budget Responsibility
</AI16>
<AI17>
Break
(10.15 -
10.30)
</AI17>
<AI18>
4
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Evidence session 9
(10.30 -
12.15)
(Pages 83 - 120)
Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for
Finance and Welsh Language, Welsh Government
Andrew Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh
Government
Jodye Kershaw, Head of Budget Policy &
Delivery, Welsh Government
</AI18>
<AI19>
5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting,
and the meeting on 11 December 2025
</AI19>
<AI20>
6
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Consideration of evidence
(12.15 -
12.30)
</AI20>
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