Agenda - Finance Committee


Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 5 - Tŷ Hywel

Meeting date: 9 January 2020

Meeting time: 09.00
For further information contact:

Bethan Davies

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6372

SeneddFinance@assembly.wales


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The Committee resolved on 18 December 2019 to exclude the public from the start of the meeting

 

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1       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Private briefing with expert adviser

(09:00-09:15)                                                                                                  

Dr Edward Jones, Lecturer in Economics, Bangor University

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2       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(09:15)                                                                                                             

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3       Paper(s) to note

(09:15)                                                                                          (Pages 1 - 4)

Minutes of meeting held on 11 December 2019

Minutes of meeting held on 18 December 2019

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4       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Evidence session 2

(09:15-10.15)                                                                             (Pages 5 - 22)

Dr Victoria Winckler, Director, Bevan Foundation

Dr Helen Tilley, Senior Research Fellow, Wales Centre for Public Policy

Anna Nicholl, Director of Strategy, Wales Council for Voluntary Action

 

Research brief

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5       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Evidence session 3

(10.15-11.15)                                                                           (Pages 23 - 62)

Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Cathy Madge, Lead Change Maker, Office of the Future Generations Commissioner

Alex Chapman, Consultant, New Economics Foundation

 

Paper 1 - Written evidence from the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Research brief

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Break: 11.15-11.30

 

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6       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Evidence session 4

(11.30-12.10)                                                                           (Pages 63 - 78)

Edward Evans, Company Director and Secretary, Civil Engineering Contractors Association Wales

 

Research brief

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Break: 12.10-13.00

 

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7       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Evidence session 5

(13.00-14.00)                                                                           (Pages 79 - 91)

Robert Chote, Chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility

Andy King, Budget Responsibility Committee member, Office for Budget Responsibility

 

Research brief

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8       Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and the start of the next meeting on 15 January 2020

(14.00)                                                                                                             

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9       Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Consideration of evidence

(14.00-14.30)                                                                                                  

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10    Scrutiny of the Wales Audit Office and the Auditor General for Wales’s Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 and Estimate 2020-21

(14.30-14.40)                                                                         (Pages 92 - 156)

Paper 2 - Letter from the Auditor General for Wales and Chair of the Wales Audit Office – 23 December 2019

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11    Ministerial Direction - NHS pension arrangements for 2019/20

(14.40-14.45)                                                                       (Pages 157 - 162)

Paper 3 – Letter from the Permanent Secretary – December 2019

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