Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Peredur Owen Griffiths MS (Chair)
Mike Hedges MS
Sam Rowlands MS
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Witnesses:
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Richard Hughes, Chair, Office for Budget
Responsibility
Tom Josephs, Budget Responsibility Committee
member, Office for Budget Responsibility
Professor David Miles, Budget Responsibility
Committee member, Office for Budget Responsibility
Guto Ifan, Lecturer, Wales Governance Centre
(Wales Fiscal Analysis)
Dr Ed Poole, Senior Lecturer, Wales Governance
Centre (Wales Fiscal Analysis)David Phillips, Associate Director,
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Victoria Vasey, Director, Women’s
Equality Network (WEN) Wales / Wales Women’s Budget Group
(WWBG)
Simon Hatch, Director, Citizens Advice
Cymru
Natalie Zhivkova, Policy & Insights
Manager, Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA)
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Committee Staff:
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Owain Roberts (Clerk)
Sian Giddins (Second Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Rhiannon Williams (Deputy Clerk)
Martin Jennings (Researcher)
Peter Davies (Researcher)
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<AI1>
Registration
</AI1>
<AI2>
Private pre-meeting
</AI2>
<AI3>
1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting
of the Finance Committee.
1.2 Apologies were received from Rhianon
Passmore MS. There was no substitute for Rhianon Passmore MS.
</AI3>
<AI4>
2
Paper(s) to note
2.1 The papers were noted.
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1
PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Finance and Welsh Language: The Land Transaction Tax (Tax Bands
and Tax Rates) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 - 10 December
2024
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2
PTN 2 - Letter from the Chair of the
Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee: Visitor Accommodation
(Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill – Stage 1 scrutiny - 11
December 2024
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3
PTN 3 - Letter to the Chair of the
Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee: Visitor Accommodation
(Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill - Stage 1 scrutiny - 16
December 2024
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4
PTN 4 - Letter from the Minister for
Children and Social Care to the Chair of the Health and Social Care
Committee: Further information on Stage 2 non-Government amendments
- 17 December 2024
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5
PTN 5 - Letter from the Minister for
Finance and Local Government: Report on Outturn 2023-24 - 20
December 2024
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.6
PTN 6 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Finance and Welsh Language: Additional information following
the Committee's Draft Budget scrutiny session on 12 December - 20
December 2024
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.7
PTN 7 - Welsh Government Draft Budget
2025-26: Written evidence from Cymdeithas yr Iaith
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.8
PTN 8 - Welsh Government Draft Budget
2025-26: Written evidence from Flintshire County
Council
</AI12>
<AI13>
2.9
PTN 9 - Welsh Government Draft Budget
2025-26: Written evidence from Tenovus Cancer Care
</AI13>
<AI14>
2.10 PTN 10 -
Letter from the Public Ombudsman for Wales regarding an appeal
hearing of a former councillor - 17 December 2024
</AI14>
<AI15>
3
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26:
Evidence session 2
3.1 The Committee took evidence on the Welsh
Government Draft Budget 2025-26 from Richard Hughes, Chair, Office
for Budget Responsibility; Tom Josephs, Budget Responsibility
Committee member, Office for Budget Responsibility; and Professor
David Miles, Budget Responsibility Committee member, Office for
Budget Responsibility.
</AI15>
<AI16>
Break
</AI16>
<AI17>
4
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26:
Evidence session 3
4.1 The Committee took evidence on the Welsh
Government Draft Budget 2025-26 from David Phillips, Associate
Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Dr Ed Poole, Senior
Lecturer, Wales Governance Centre (Wales Fiscal Analysis); and Guto
Ifan, Lecturer, Wales Governance Centre (Wales Fiscal
Analysis).
</AI17>
<AI18>
Break
</AI18>
<AI19>
5
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26:
Evidence session 4
5.1 The Committee took evidence on the Welsh
Government Draft Budget 2025-26 from Victoria Vasey, Director,
Women’s Equality Network (WEN) Wales / Wales Women’s
Budget Group (WWBG); Simon Hatch, Director, Citizens Advice Cymru;
and Natalie Zhivkova, Policy and Insights Manager, Wales Council
for Voluntary Action (WCVA).
</AI19>
<AI20>
6
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting.
6.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI20>
<AI21>
7
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26:
Consideration of evidence
7.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI21>
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