Meeting Venue: Hybrid –
Committee
room 5 Tŷ
Hywel and video conference
via Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 11 February
2026
Meeting time: 09.30 - 11.03
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15919
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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Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for
Finance and Welsh Language, Welsh Government
Andrew Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh
Government
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Committee Staff:
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Owain Roberts (Clerk)
Sian Giddins (Second Clerk)
Georgina Owen (Second Clerk)
Mike Lewis (Deputy Clerk)
Alice Stenton (Deputy Clerk)
Ben Harris (Legal Adviser)
Martin Jennings (Researcher)
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<AI1>
Registration
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<AI2>
Private pre-meeting
</AI2>
<AI3>
1
Introduction, 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 papers were noted.
</AI4>
<AI5>
2.1
PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Housing and Local Government: Homelessness and Social Housing
Allocation (Wales) Bill - Revised Explanatory Memorandum and
Regulatory Impact Assessment - 27 January 2026
</AI5>
<AI6>
2.2
PTN 2 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary
for Finance and Welsh Language to the Economy, Trade and Rural
Affairs (ETRA) Committee: Development of Tourism and Regulation of
Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Bill - 27 January 2026
</AI6>
<AI7>
2.3
PTN 3 - Building Safety (Wales) Bill:
Further information from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and
Local Government to the Finance Committee's report recommendations
- 28 January 2026
</AI7>
<AI8>
2.4
PTN 4 - Building Safety (Wales) Bill:
Further information from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and
Local Government to the Local Government and Housing Committee's
report recommendations - 28 January 2026
</AI8>
<AI9>
2.5
PTN 5 - Building Safety (Wales) Bill:
Further information from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and
Local Government to the Legislation, Justice and Constitution
Committee's report recommendations - 28 January 2026
</AI9>
<AI10>
2.6
PTN 6 - Joint letter from the Deputy
First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural
Affairs, and the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery to the
Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee: Welsh Government
Draft Budget 2026-27 - 28 January 2026
</AI10>
<AI11>
2.7
PTN 7 - Letter from the Counsel General
and Minister for Delivery to the Member Accountability Bill
Committee: Financial resolution for the Senedd Cymru (Member
Accountability and Elections) Bill - 2 February 2026
</AI11>
<AI12>
2.8
PTN 8 - Letter from Deputy First
Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural
Affairs: Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity
Targets) (Wales) Bill - Revised Explanatory Memorandum - 3 February
2026
</AI12>
<AI13>
2.9
PTN 9 - Annual scrutiny of the Wales
Audit Office and the Auditor General for Wales: Response from Audit
Wales to the Committee's report - 3 February 2026
</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>
3
Finance Committee Legacy work - Sixth
Senedd: Evidence session
3.1 The Committee took evidence on the Finance
Committee’s Legacy work from Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet
Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, Welsh Government; and
Andrew Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh Government.
</AI15>
<AI16>
5
Finance Committee Legacy work - Sixth
Senedd: Consideration of evidence
5.1 The Committee considered the evidence
received.
</AI16>
<AI17>
6
Nomination of the Auditor General for
Wales: Consideration of draft report
6.1 The Committee considered its draft report
and agreed it with no changes.
</AI17>
<AI18>
7
Interparliamentary Finance Committee
Forum: Consideration of the Forum’s draft legacy
report
7.1 The Committee considered the draft report
of the Interparliamentary Finance Committee Forum and agreed it
with no changes.
</AI18>
<AI19>
8
Nomination of the Auditor General for
Wales: Consideration of the Memorandum for the Accounting Officer
of the Wales Audit Office
8.1 The Committee considered the Memorandum
for the Accounting Officer of the Wales Audit Office and agreed it
with no changes.
</AI19>
<AI20>
9
Draft Public Audit (Amendment) (Wales)
Bill: Update
9.1 The Committee considered the paper on the
Draft Public Audit (Amendment) (Wales) Bill and agreed to signpost
the draft Bill and developments during this Senedd to the successor
Committee in the legacy report.
</AI20>
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