Meeting Venue: Hybrid - Committee
room 3, Senedd and
video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: 29 January 2026
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)
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1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
(09.30)
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2
Paper(s) to note
(Pages 1 - 19)
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2.1 PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance
and Welsh Language: Gender Budgeting - 19 January 2026
(Pages 20 - 22)
</AI5>
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2.2 PTN 2 - Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Welsh
Government response to the Finance Committee's report - 23 January
2026
(Pages 23 - 45)
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3
Pre-nomination Hearing - Auditor General
for Wales
(09.30 -
10.30)
(Pages 46 - 60)
Catherine Mealing-Jones - Preferred Candidate
for Auditor General for Wales
Paper 1 – Curriculum Vitae for Catherine
Mealing-Jones
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4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting
(10.30)
</AI8>
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5
Pre-nomination Hearing - Auditor General
for Wales: Consideration of hearing
(10.30 -
10.45)
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<AI10>
6
The Land Transaction Tax and
Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017 (Amendments to
Schedule 5) Regulations 2026
(10.45 -
11.00)
(Pages 61 - 63)
Supporting
documents:
The Land
Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act
2017 (Amendments to Schedule 5) Regulations 2026
Explanatory
memorandum
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7
The Land Transaction Tax (Modification of
Relief for Acquisitions Involving Multiple Dwellings) (Wales)
Regulations 2026
(11.00 -
11.15)
(Pages 64 - 65)
Supporting
documents
The Land
Transaction Tax (Modification of Relief for Acquisitions Involving
Multiple Dwellings) (Wales) Regulations 2026
Explanatory
Memorandum
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