Meeting Venue: Hybrid -
Committee
room 3, Senedd
and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Meeting time: 09.30 - 10.57
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15324
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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Michelle Morris, Public Services Ombudsman for
Wales
Katrin Shaw, Chief Legal Adviser and Director
of Investigations
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Committee Staff:
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Owain Roberts (Clerk)
Sian Giddins (Second Clerk)
Rachael Davies (Second Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Božo Lugonja (Researcher)
Gruffydd Owen (Legal Adviser)
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<AI1>
1
Introduction, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting
of the Finance Committee.
</AI1>
<AI2>
2
Paper(s) to note
2.1 The papers were noted.
</AI2>
<AI3>
2.1
PTN 1 - Letter from the Senedd
Commission: Update to recommendations made in the Committee's
report on the Scrutiny of the Senedd Commission Draft Budget
2025-26 - 24 March 2025
</AI3>
<AI4>
2.2
PTN 2 - Visitor Accommodation (Register
and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Welsh Government response to the
Committee's Stage 1 report recommendations - 28 March
2025
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.3
PTN 3 - Letter from the Electoral
Commission: Timing of estimate - 28 March 2025
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.4
PTN 4 - Letter from the Deputy First
Minister on the Disused Mine and Quarry Tips (Wales) Bill: Logic
models and the theory of change - 31 March 2025
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.5
PTN 5 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Health and Social Care: Handling of complaints about NHS Wales
- 4 April 2025
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.6
PTN 6 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Economy, Energy and Planning: Tourism Inter-Ministerial Group -
9 April 2025
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.7
PTN 7 - Visitor Accommodation (Register
and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill: Welsh Government response to the
Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee's Stage 1 report
recommendations - 10 April 2025
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.8
PTN 8 - Letter from the UK Statistics
Authority: Quarterly growth data for Wales - 17 April
2025
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.9
PTN 9 - Letter from the Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affair:
Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee – 22 April
2025
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.10 PTN 10 -
Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language:
Publication of the Welsh Government's First Supplementary Budget
2025-26 - 23 April 2025
</AI12>
<AI13>
3
Post-legislative review of the Public
Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019: Evidence session 1
3.1 The Committee took evidence on the
Post-legislative review of the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales)
Act 2019 from Michelle Morris, Public Services Ombudsman for Wales;
and Katrin Shaw, Chief Legal Adviser and Director of
Investigations.
3.2 The Committee agreed to write to the
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales with questions that
weren’t reached during the evidence session.
</AI13>
<AI14>
4
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting.
4.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI14>
<AI15>
5
Post-legislative review of the Public
Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019: Consideration of
evidence
5.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI15>
<AI16>
6
Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy)
Etc. (Wales) Bill: Order of consideration for Stage 2
proceedings
6.1 The Committee noted the procedures for
Stage 2 proceedings.
6.2 The Committee considered the options for
the order of consideration of amendments to the Visitor
Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Bill and agreed its
preferred approach.
</AI16>
<AI17>
7
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Update on engagement activities
7.1 The Committee considered the paper on its
engagement activities in relation to the Welsh Government Draft
Budget 2026-27, and agreed its approach.
</AI17>
<AI18>
8
Consideration of Forward Work
Programme
8.1 The Committee considered its Forward Work
Programme.
</AI18>
<AI19>
9
Interparliamentary Finance Committee
Forum: Update
9.1 The Committee considered and agreed the
draft letter from the Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum to
the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
</AI19>
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