Finance Committee

Meeting Venue: Committee Room 4 - Ty Hywel
Meeting date: 16 May 2012
Meeting time: 09:15
For further information please contact:
Helen Finlayson Committee Clerk 02920898409 FinanceCommittee@wales.gov.uk

Agenda

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Private briefing (9:15 - 9:30)

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1. Introductions, apologies and substitutions (9:30 - 9:35)

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2. Devolved Funding: Borrowing Powers and Innovative Approaches to Capital Funding (9:35 - 10:35) (Pages 1 - 29)

FIN(4) 07-12 – Paper 1 – Welsh Government

Jane Hutt AM, Minister for Finance

Gerry Holtham, Infrastructure Investment Adviser

Andrew Jeffreys, Deputy Director, Strategic Capital Investment, Welsh Government

Jeff Andrews, Specialist Policy Adviser

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3. Devolved Funding: Borrowing Powers and Innovative Approaches to Capital Funding (10:35 - 11:20) (Pages 30 - 37)

FIN(4) 07-12 – Paper 2 – Local Government Association

Stephen Jones, Director of Finance and Resources, Local Government Association

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Break (11:20 - 11:30)

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<AI6>

4. Effectiveness of European Structural Funding in Wales (11:30 - 12:15) (Pages 38 - 44)

Tidal Energy Ltd

FIN(4) 07-12 – Paper 3

Chris Williams, Development Director, Tidal Energy Ltd

Furnace Farm Ltd (Via Video Conference)

FIN(4) 07-12 – Paper 4

Katherine Himsworth, Furnace Farm Ltd

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5. Papers to note  (Pages 45 - 47)

FIN(4) 07-12 – Paper 5 – Correspondence from the Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and European Programmes re: JESSICA

FIN(4) 06-12 - Minutes of previous meeting

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6. Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:

Items 7 and 8.

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7. Discussion of evidence - Devolved Funding: Borrowing Powers and Innovative Approaches to Capital Funding (12:15 - 12:25)

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8. Discussion of evidence - Effectiveness of European Structural Funding in Wales (12:25 - 12:35)

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