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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Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for
Finance and Welsh Language
Andrew Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh
Government
Jodye Kershaw, Head of Budget Policy &
Delivery, Welsh Government
Tom Josephs, Tom Josephs, Budget
Responsibility Committee Member, Office for Budget
Responsibility
Professor David Miles, Budget Responsibility
Committee Member, Office for Budget Responsibility
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Committee Staff:
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Owain Roberts (Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Martin Jennings (Researcher)
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<AI1>
Registration
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<AI2>
Private pre-meeting
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<AI3>
1
Introduction, 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 Transport and North Wales: Bus Services (Wales) Bill - Wales
Centre for Public Policy Report - 17 November 2025
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2
PTN 2 - Letter from Cabinet Secretary for
Finance and Welsh Language: Roundtable discussions on funding the
Devolved Governments, and Welsh Taxes - 18 November
2025
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3
PTN 3 - Welsh Government response to the
Finance Committee's report: Post-legislative review of the Public
Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2019 - 17 November 2025
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4
PTN 4 - Letter from Audit Wales: Audit
Fees Consultation 2026-27 - 17 November 2025
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5
PTN 5 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Finance and Welsh Language: Budget Process Protocol - 18
November 2025
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.6
PTN 6 - Letter from the Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural
Affairs: Prohibition of the Greyhound Racing (Wales) Bill - 18
November 2025
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.7
PTN 7 - Letter from the Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural
Affairs: Inter-Ministerial Standing Committee (IMSC) - 18 November
2025
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.8
PTN 8 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Finance and Welsh Language: Development of Tourism and
Regulation of Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Bill - 18 November
2025
</AI12>
<AI13>
2.9
PTN 9 - Letter from the Chair of the
Member Accountability Committee: Senedd Cymru (Member
Accountability and Elections) Bill – consultation responses -
24 November 2025
</AI13>
<AI14>
2.10 PTN 10 -
Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language:
Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor Accommodation
(Wales) Bill - 25 November 2025
</AI14>
<AI15>
2.11 PTN 11 -
Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales:
Bus Services (Wales) Bill – Revised Explanatory Memorandum
and Regulatory Impact Assessment - 25 November 2025
</AI15>
<AI16>
3
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Evidence session 8
3.1 The Committee took evidence on the Welsh
Government Draft Budget 2026-27 from Professor David Miles, Budget
Responsibility Committee Member, Office for Budget Responsibility;
and Tom Josephs, Budget Responsibility Committee Member, Office for
Budget Responsibility.
</AI16>
<AI17>
Break
</AI17>
<AI18>
4
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Evidence session 9
4.1 The Committee took evidence on the Welsh
Government Draft Budget 2026-27 from Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet
Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, Welsh Government; Andrew
Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh Government; and Jodye Kershaw,
Head of Budget Policy & Delivery, Welsh Government.
4.2 The Cabinet Secretary agreed to provide
further information on the Welsh Government’s work in
relation to gender budgeting.
</AI18>
<AI19>
5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting,
and the meeting on 11 December 2025
5.1 The motion was agreed.
</AI19>
<AI20>
6
Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27:
Consideration of evidence
6.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI20>
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