Agenda - Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 5, Tŷ Hywel

Meeting date: 27 November 2025

Meeting time: 11.00
For further information contact:

Richard Thomas

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddCulture@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

10:45-11:00

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Private

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1 Prohibition of Greyhound Racing (Wales) Bill: Consideration of draft report

11:00-12:15 (Pages 1 - 107)

Attached Documents:
Prohibition of Greyhound Racing (Wales) Bill - Stage One Draft Report
Written evidence: Caerphilly County Borough Council - 10 November 2025
Written evidence: UKAS - 10 November 2025
Written evidence: Cut the Chase coalition - 11 November 2025
Written evidence: UKAS - 18 November 2025
Written evidence: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs - 18 November 2025
Written evidence: Greyhound Rescue Wales - 21 November 2025
Written evidence: Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs - 24 November 2025

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Break

12:15-13:00

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Public

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2 Introductions, apologies and substitutions

13:00

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3 Scrutiny of the Welsh Government draft budget 2026-27: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language

13:00-14:30 (Pages 108 - 145)

Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language

Elin Burns, Director of Culture, Heritage, Sport and Welsh Language

Jeremy Evas, Head: Prosiect 2050

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Welsh Government written evidence

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4 Papers to note

14:30

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4.1 Appointment of the Chair of S4C

(Pages 146 - 147)

Attached Documents:
Letter to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Requesting that the department reconsiders its position in relation to the Senedd involvement in the appointment of the Chair of S4C – 17 November 2025

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4.2 Welsh Government international relations

(Page 148)

Attached Documents:
Ministerial Inward-Outward visits for October 2025 – 18 November 2025

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4.3 Inter-institutional relations agreement

(Page 149)

Attached Documents:
Copy letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs regarding the tenth meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee – 19 November 2025

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5 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

14:30

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Private

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6 Scrutiny of the Welsh Government draft budget 2026-27: Consideration of evidence and key issues

14:30-15:00

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