Meeting Venue: Hybrid – Committee
room 5 Tŷ Hywel and video conference via Zoom
Meeting date: 11 February 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)
</AI2>
<AI3>
1
Introduction, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
(09.30)
</AI3>
<AI4>
2
Paper(s) to note
(09.30)
(Pages 1 - 6)
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1 PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing
and Local Government: Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation
(Wales) Bill - Revised Explanatory Memorandum and Regulatory Impact
Assessment - 27 January 2026
(Pages 7 - 9)
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2 PTN 2 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance
and Welsh Language to the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs (ETRA)
Committee: Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor
Accommodation (Wales) Bill - 27 January 2026
(Pages 10 - 15)
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3 PTN 3 - Building Safety (Wales) Bill: Further
information from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local
Government to the Finance Committee's report recommendations - 28
January 2026
(Pages 16 - 19)
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4 PTN 4 - Building Safety (Wales) Bill: Further
information from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local
Government to the Local Government and Housing Committee's report
recommendations - 28 January 2026
(Pages 20 - 21)
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5 PTN 5 - Building Safety (Wales) Bill: Further
information from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local
Government to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee's
report recommendations - 28 January 2026
(Pages 22 - 28)
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.6 PTN 6 - Joint letter from the Deputy First Minister
and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, and the
Counsel General and Minister for Delivery to the Legislation,
Justice and Constitution Committee: Welsh Government Draft Budget
2026-27 - 28 January 2026
(Pages 29 - 31)
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.7 PTN 7 - Letter from the Counsel General and Minister
for Delivery to the Member Accountability Bill Committee: Financial
resolution for the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and
Elections) Bill - 2 February 2026
(Pages 32 - 33)
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.8 PTN 8 - Letter from Deputy First Minister and
Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Environment
(Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets) (Wales) Bill -
Revised Explanatory Memorandum - 3 February 2026
(Pages 34 - 35)
</AI12>
<AI13>
2.9 PTN 9 - Annual scrutiny of the Wales Audit Office and
the Auditor General for Wales: Response from Audit Wales to the
Committee's report - 3 February 2026
(Pages 36 - 42)
</AI13>
<AI14>
3
Finance Committee Legacy work - Sixth
Senedd: Evidence session
(09.30 -
10.30)
(Pages 43 - 59)
Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for
Finance and Welsh Language
Andrew Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh
Government
</AI14>
<AI15>
4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting
(10.30)
</AI15>
<AI16>
5
Finance Committee Legacy work - Sixth
Senedd: Consideration of evidence
(10.30 -
10:45)
</AI16>
<AI17>
6
Nomination of the Auditor General for
Wales: Consideration of draft report
(10.45 -
11.00)
(Pages 60 - 77)
</AI17>
<AI18>
7
Interparliamentary Finance Committee
Forum: Consideration of the Forum’s draft legacy
report
(11.00 -
11:15)
(Pages 78 - 89)
</AI18>
<AI19>
8
Nomination of the Auditor General for
Wales: Consideration of the Memorandum for the Accounting Officer
of the Wales Audit Office
(11.15 -
11.30)
(Pages 90 - 95)
</AI19>
<AI20>
9
Draft Public Audit (Amendment) (Wales)
Bill: Update
(11.30 -
11.45)
(Pages 96 - 117)
</AI20>
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