Meetings

Welsh Government budget

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

Note: Meeting Agenda can change at short notice. Particularly where future meeting dates are indicated more than a week in advance. Please check before planning to attend a Committee Meeting that the item you are interested in has not been moved.

Meeting: 13/11/2025 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 6 - Letter from Public Health Wales: Public Health policy priorities - 6 November 2025

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Meeting: 04/06/2025 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: Welsh Reserve in 2025-26 - 16 May 2025

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Meeting: 30/04/2025 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 8 - Letter from the UK Statistics Authority: Quarterly growth data for Wales - 17 April 2025

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Meeting: 12/03/2025 - Finance Committee (Item 4)

4 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Approach to engagement

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Minutes:

4.1 The Committee considered the paper on the approach to engagement in relation to the Draft Budget 2026-27 and agreed the actions included within the paper.


Meeting: 05/12/2024 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 4 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: Second Supplementary Budget 2024-25 - 15 November 2024

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Meeting: 26/06/2024 - Finance Committee (Item 6)

6 Changes to the Budget Protocol - Responses from the Directly Funded Bodies

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FIN(6)-14-24 P1 - Cover paper

FIN(6)-14-24 P2 - Letter from Audit Wales – 15 April 2024

FIN(6)-14-24 P3 - Letter from the Senedd Commission – 30 April 2024

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Minutes:

6.1 The Committee considered the paper on changes to the Budget Process Protocol, and the responses received from Audit Wales and the Senedd Commission.

 

6.2 The Committee agreed to write to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Cabinet Office on issues relating to the Budget Process Protocol and other budgetary matters, and to send a copy of the letter to the Directly Funded Bodies.


Meeting: 09/05/2024 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution & Cabinet Office: Approach to the publication of supplementary budgets - 29 April 2024

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Meeting: 13/09/2023 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 13 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Cost of living payment - 1 August 2023

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Meeting: 13/09/2023 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 12 - Letter to the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Cost of living payment - 11 July 2023

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Meeting: 22/06/2022 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 2 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Budget improvement plan - 1 June 2022

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Meeting: 18/05/2022 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

Technical briefing with Welsh Government officials: Budget Improvement Plan

Andrew Jeffreys, Director Treasury, Welsh Government

Matt Wellington, Head of Budget Policy & Delivery, Welsh Government

Andrew Johnson, Special Adviser to the Minister for Finance and Local Government

 

Supporting documents:

Budget Improvement Plan (PDF, 279KB)

Minutes:

2.1 The Committee received a technical briefing from the Welsh Government officials.


Meeting: 11/05/2022 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 8 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Budget Improvement Impact Advisory Group (BIIAG) - 27 April 2022

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Meeting: 11/05/2022 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 7 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Budget Improvement Impact Advisory Group (BIIAG) - 25 March 2022

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Meeting: 11/05/2022 - Finance Committee (Item 2)

2 PTN 18 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Approach to the publication of supplementary budgets during 2022-23 - 4 May 2022

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Meeting: 15/09/2021 - Finance Committee (Item 5)

5 Budget Review Group

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FIN(6)-04-21 P4 - Budget Review Group: Background paper

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Minutes:

5.1 The Committee considered the background paper on a proposed Budget Review Group.


Meeting: 06/07/2021 - Business Committee (Item 7)

Letter from the Minister Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd

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  • Restricted enclosure 62

Minutes:

Business Committee agreed to consult with the Finance Committee on the budget timetable and return to the matter at the first meeting in September.