Meeting Venue: Hybrid -
Committee
room 3, Senedd
and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 5 February
2025
Meeting time: 09.30 - 12.06
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15057
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
Rhianon Passmore MS
Sam Rowlands MS
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Witnesses:
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David Chapman, Executive Director, Wales, UK
Hospitality Cymru
Roy Church, Co-Chair, Welsh Association of
Visitor Attractions
Zoë Hawkins, Chief Executive, MWT
Cymru
Rowland Rees-Thomas, Chair, Wales Tourism
Alliance
Iwan Thomas, Chief Executive, PLANED
Emma Thornton, Chief Executive, Visit
Pembrokeshire
Jim Jones, Managing Director, North Wales
Tourism
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Committee Staff:
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Rachael Davies (Second Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Christian Tipples (Researcher)
Ben Harris (Legal Adviser)
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<AI1>
Registration
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<AI2>
Private pre-meeting
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<AI3>
1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting
of the Finance Committee.
</AI3>
<AI4>
2
Paper(s) to note
2.1 The Committee noted the papers.
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1
PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Finance and Welsh Language: Interministerial Standing Committee
(F:ISC) - 27 January 2025
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2
PTN 2 - Letter from the Public Services
Ombudsman for Wales: Response to the Committee's report on the
Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried
out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - 24 January
2025
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3
PTN 3 - Letter from the Public Services
Ombudsman for Wales: Response to the Committee's report on the
Annual Scrutiny of the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales - 24
January 2025
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4
PTN 4 - Letter from Audit Wales: Response
to the Committee's report on the Annual scrutiny of the Wales Audit
Office and the Auditor General for Wales - 23 January
2025
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5
PTN 5 - Letter from the Llywydd and Chair
of the Senedd Commission: Cardiff Bay 2032 project - 28 January
2025
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.6
PTN 6 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Economy, Energy and Planning: Memorandum of Understanding
between the UK government and the Welsh Government: Investment
zones - 29 January 2025
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.7
PTN 7 - Letter from the Comptroller and
Auditor General: Administration of Welsh Rates of Income Tax
2023-24 - 29 January 2025
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.8
PTN 8 - Welsh Government Draft Budget
2025-26: Written information from Sparkle (Children's Charity) - 29
January 2025
</AI12>
<AI13>
3
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy)
Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 9
3.1 The Committee took evidence on the Visitor
Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill from Rowland
Rees-Evans, Chair, Wales Tourism Alliance; David Chapman, Executive
Director, Wales, UK Hospitality Cymru; and Roy Church, Co-Chair,
Welsh Association of Visitor Attractions.
</AI13>
<AI14>
Break
</AI14>
<AI15>
4
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy)
Etc. (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 10
4.1 The Committee took evidence on the Visitor
Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill from Zoë
Hawkins, Chief Executive, MWT Cymru; Emma Thornton, Chief
Executive, Visit Pembrokeshire; Jim Jones, Managing Director, North
Wales Tourism; and Iwan Thomas, Chief Executive, PLANED.
</AI15>
<AI16>
5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting.
5.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI16>
<AI17>
6
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy)
Etc. (Wales) Bill: Consideration of evidence
6.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI17>
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