Concise Minutes - Finance Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 5 - Tŷ Hywel

Meeting date: Thursday, 27 February 2020

Meeting time: 09.01 - 11.24
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/5982

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Attendance

Category	Names
Assembly Members:	Llyr Gruffydd AM (Chair) Mike Hedges AM Rhianon Passmore AM Nick Ramsay AM Mark Reckless AM
Witnesses:	David Phillips, Institute for Fiscal Studies Ed Poole, Wales Governance Centre Guto Ifan, Wales Governance Centre David Bradbury, OECD Sean Dougherty, OECD Bert Brys, OECD
Committee Staff:	Bethan Davies (Clerk) Georgina Owen (Second Clerk) Gemma Gifford (Deputy Clerk) Martin Jennings (Researcher) Christian Tipples (Researcher)

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members and witnesses to the meeting.

1.2 Apologies were received from Siân Gwenllian AM and Alun Davies AM.

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2 Papers to note

2.1 The papers were noted.

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2.1 Letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services - Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill - 11 February 2020

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3 Impact of variations in national and sub-national income tax: Evidence session 1

3.1 The Committee took evidence from David Phillips, Associate Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies on the impact of variations in national and sub-national income tax.

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4 Impact of variations in national and sub-national income tax: Evidence session 2

4.1 The Committee took evidence from Dr Ed Poole, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University; Guto Ifan, Research Associate, Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University; David Bradbury, Head of the Tax Policy and Statistics Division, OECD (via Skype); Bert Brys, Head of the Country Tax Policy and Personal and Property Taxes Units, OECD (via Skype); and Sean Dougherty, Senior Advisor, OECD (via Skype) on the impact of variations in national and sub-national income tax.

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

5.1 The motion was agreed.

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6 Impact of variations in national and sub-national income tax: Consideration of evidence

6.1 The Committee considered the evidence received.

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7 Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Second Supplementary Budget 2019-20: Consideration of draft report

7.1 The Committee agreed its report with minor changes.

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8 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Consideration of pre-final Budget

8.1 The Committee noted the reports of other committees’ scrutiny of the draft Budget 2020-21, ahead of the debate on 3 March 2020.

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