Agenda - Finance Committee


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


Hybrid

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Registration

(09.00 - 09.15)

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Private pre-meeting

(09.15 - 09.30)

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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)                                                                                                             

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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)

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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)

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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)

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2.4   PTN 4 - Letter from Audit Wales: Audit Fees Consultation 2026-27 - 17 November 2025

                                                                                                   (Pages 9 - 16)

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2.5   PTN 5 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: Budget Process Protocol - 18 November 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 17 - 18)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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Break

(10.15 - 10.30)

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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

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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

                                                                                                                          

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6       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Consideration of evidence

(12.15 - 12.30)                                                                                                

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