Concise Minutes - Finance Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 2 - Senedd

Meeting date: Wednesday, 13 December 2017

Meeting time: 09.33 - 12.24
This meeting can be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/4431

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Attendance

Category	Names
Assembly Members:	Simon Thomas AM (Chair) Neil Hamilton AM Mike Hedges AM Jane Hutt AM Nick Ramsay AM
Witnesses:	Robert Chote, Office for Budget Responsibility
Committee Staff:	Bethan Davies (Clerk) Leanne Hatcher (Second Clerk) Georgina Owen (Deputy Clerk) Martin Jennings (Researcher) Gareth David Thomas (Researcher) Ben Harris (Legal Adviser)

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1 Impact of the UK leaving the European Union - Scoping paper

1.1 The Committee considered a scoping paper on Wales’s financial preparedness for leaving the European Union.

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2 Forward Work Programme - Scoping paper

2.1 The Committee considered its forward work programme for the spring term.

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3 Tax Statutory Instruments: Technical briefing

3.1 The Committee received a technical briefing on Tax Statutory Instruments from the following Welsh Government officials: Liz Matthews, Welsh Revenue Authority Operations Project Manager; Gurvinder Bhakar, Lawyer, Treasury Team; Andrew Hewitt, Land Transactions Tax Project Manager; and Sarah Govier, Devolved Tax Policy Project Manager.

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4 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

4.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.

4.2 Apologies were received from Steffan Lewis AM and David Rees AM.

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5 Paper(s) to note

5.1 The papers were noted.

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5.1 PTN1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance - Welsh Revenue Authority Budgets for 2017/18 - 2019/20 - 4 December 2017

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5.2 PTN2 - Assembly Commission Corporate Performance Report April 2017 - September 2017 - 7 December 2016

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6 Briefing: Forecasts for Devolved Taxes

6.1 The Committee took evidence from Robert Chote, Chairman of Office for Budget Responsibility on forecasts for devolved taxes.

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