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Transcript: Transcript for 27/11/2019 - Finance Committee - Fifth Senedd

Items
Expected timing No. Item

(09:30)

1.

Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Minutes:

1.1     The Chair welcomed Members and witnesses to the meeting.

1.2     Apologies were received from Rhianon Passmore and Mark Reckless.

(09:30)

2.

Paper(s) to note

·           Minutes from the meeting held on 17 October 2019

·           Minutes from the meeting held on 23 October 2019

·           Minutes from the meeting held on 7 November 2019

·           Minutes from the meeting held on 13 November 2019

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

2.1     The minutes and papers were noted.

 

2.1

Letter from Suzy Davies AM in response to Finance Committee's report on scrutiny of Assembly Commission draft budget 2020-21

Supporting documents:

2.2

Letter from the Auditor General for Wales to Chair of Public Accounts Committee: New Zealand budgetary process

Supporting documents:

2.3

Letter from Minister for Finance to Llywydd: Non-Domestic Rating (Multiplier) (Wales) Order 2019

Supporting documents:

2.4

Letter from Minister for Health and Social Services to Chair of Health, Social Care and Sport Committee: National Health Service (Indemnities) (Wales) Bill

Supporting documents:

(09:30)

3.

Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

Minutes:

3.1     The motion was approved.

 

(09:30-10:30)

4.

Technical briefing: Welsh tax forecasts

Andrew Jeffreys, Director, Welsh Treasury

Julian Revell, Head of Fiscal Analysis, Welsh Treasury

 

Paper 1 – Background paper

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

4.1     The Committee received a technical briefing from Andrew Jeffreys, Director, Welsh Treasury and Julian Revell, Head of Fiscal Analysis, Welsh Treasury on Welsh tax forecasts.

(10.40-11.40)

5.

Private briefing: Future Generations Commissioner for Wales monitoring of the Welsh Government budget - key findings to date

Cathy Madge, Lead Change Maker, Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Eurgain Powell, Change Maker, Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

 

Paper 2 – Briefing paper

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

5.1     The Committee received a private briefing from Cathy Madge, Lead Change Maker and Eurgain Powell, Change Maker, Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, on the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales’ monitoring of the Welsh Government budget.

 

(11.40-12.00)

6.

Scrutiny of the Wales Audit Office and the Auditor General for Wales’s Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 and Estimate 2020-21: Consideration of draft report

Paper 3 – Cover paper

Paper 4 – Correspondence with the Auditor General for Wales and Chair of the Wales Audit Office

Paper 5 – Draft report

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

6.1     The Committee approved the draft report.