Agenda and minutes

Venue: Committee Room 4 - Tŷ Hywel. View directions

Contact: Owain Roberts 

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Transcript: Transcript for 10/10/2024 - Finance Committee

Items
Expected timing No. Item

(09.00-0915)

Registration

(09.15-09.30)

Private Pre-meeting

(09.30)

1.

Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Minutes:

1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Finance Committee.

 

1.2 Mike Hedges MS declared that he is Chair of the Public & Commercial Service Union cross-party group in the Senedd.

2.

Paper(s) to note

Minutes:

2.1 The Committee noted the papers.

2.1

PTN 1 - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language: Welsh Rates of Income Tax Outturn Statistics 2022-23 - 3 October 2024

Supporting documents:

2.2

PTN 2 - Letter from the Minister for Children and Social Care: Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill - 3 October 2024

Supporting documents:

2.3

PTN 3 - Letter from the PCS Union: Senedd Commission Draft budget 2025-26 - 7 October 2024

Supporting documents:

(09.30-11.00)

3.

Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Evidence session

Michelle Morris, Public Services Ombudsman for Wales

Chris Vinestock, Chief Operating Officer & Director of Improvement

Katrin Shaw, Chief Legal Adviser and Director of Investigations

 

Supporting documents:

FIN(6)-20-24 P1 - Independent review of investigations by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales into Code of Conduct complaints

Senedd Research Brief

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

3.1 The Committee took evidence on the review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales from Michelle Morris, the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales; Chris Vinestock, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Improvement, Office of the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales; and Katrin Shaw, Chief Legal Adviser and Director of Investigations, Office of the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales.

 

3.2        The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales agreed to provide the following:

 

·         A timeline of actions that it intends to undertake, following the Independent review of investigations by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales into Code of Conduct complaints.

(11.00-11.15)

Break

(11.15-12.15)

4.

Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Evidence session

Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, Welsh Government

Sharon Bounds, Deputy Director, Financial Controls, Welsh Government

Emma Watkins, Deputy Director, Budget and Government Business, Welsh Government

 

Supporting documents:

Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25

Senedd Research Brief

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

4.1 The Committee took evidence on the First Supplementary Budget 2024-25 from Mark Drakeford MS, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language, Welsh Government; Sharon Bounds, Deputy Director, Financial Controls, Welsh Government and Emma Watkins, Deputy Director, Budget and Government Business, Welsh Government.

(12.15)

5.

Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting.

Minutes:

5.1 The motion was agreed.

(12.15-12.25)

6.

Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2024-25: Consideration of evidence

Minutes:

6.1 The Committee considered the evidence received.

(12.25-12.35)

7.

Review into the operations, processes and investigations carried out by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales: Consideration of evidence

Minutes:

7.1 The Committee considered the evidence received.