Agenda - Health and Social Care Committee


Meeting Venue:

Hybrid – Committee Room 3, Senedd

and video conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 27 November 2025

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Sarah Beasley

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddHealth@senedd.wales


Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

(09.00-09.30)

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Public meeting

(09.30 - 11.45)

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest.

(09.30)                                                                                                             

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2       Welsh Government draft budget 2026-27: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care; the Minister for Children and Social Care and the Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing.

(9.30-11.45)                                                                               (Pages 1 - 70)

Jeremy Miles MS - Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care

Dawn Bowden MS - Minister for Children and Social Care

Sarah Murphy MS - Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing

 

Sioned Rees - Director of Public Health Protection

Albert Heaney - Chief Social Care Officer for Wales

Alex Slade - Director of Primary Care, Mental Health and Early Years 

Hywel Jones - Director of Finance for Health, Social Care & Early Years

 

Research brief

Paper 1 – Welsh Government draft budget paper

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3       Paper(s) to note

(11.45)                                                                                                             

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3.1   Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs regarding annual reports from the Independent Intergovernmental Relations Secretariat

                                                                                                           (Page 71)

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3.2   Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education to update on the Healthy Eating in Schools (Nutritional Standards and Requirements) (Maintained Primary Schools) (Wales) Regulations 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 72 - 73)

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3.3   Response from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee in relation to the draft of the Health Impact Assessment (Wales) Regulations 2025

                                                                                                 (Pages 74 - 75)

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3.4   Letter to HEIW and Swansea Bay University Health Board regarding Band 5 adult nursing positions within Swansea Bay Health Board

                                                                                                 (Pages 76 - 77)

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

(11.45)                                                                                                             

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Private meeting

(11.45 - 12.15)

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5       Welsh Government draft budget 2026-27: consideration of evidence

(11.45 -12.15)                                                                                                 

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