Finance Committee

Meeting Venue: Committee Room 2 - Senedd
Meeting date: 18 July 2012
Meeting time: 09:15
For further information please contact:
Gareth Price 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. Effectiveness of European Structural Funding in Wales - Evidence from Value Wales (9:35 - 10:30) (Pages 1 - 2)

FIN(4) 12-12 – Paper 1- Value Wales

Alison Standfast, Deputy Director Value Wales (Procurement), Value Wales

Paul Williams, Strategic Procurement Executive, Value Wales

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3. Update on the work of the Commission on Devolution in Wales (10:30 - 11:15) (Pages 3 - 4)

FIN(4) 12-12 – Paper 2 – Commission on Devolution in Wales

Paul Silk, Chair, Commission on Devolution in Wales

Professor Noel Lloyd, former Vice-Chancellor, Aberystwyth University

Dyfrig John, Chairman of Principality Building Society

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4. Papers to note  (Pages 5 - 11)

FIN(4) 12-12 – Paper 3 – Financial implications of Public Audit (Wales) Bill

FIN(4) 11-12 - Minutes of previous meeting

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

Items 6, 7 and 8.

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6. Consideration of evidence on the Effectiveness of European Structural Funding in Wales (11:15 - 11:30)

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7. Response to consultation on new Scottish borrowing powers (11:30 - 11:45) (Pages 12 - 19)

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8. Handling of Welsh Government Draft Budget 2013-2014 (11:45 - 12:00) (Pages 20 - 23)

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