Agenda and minutes

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Contact: Bethan Davies 

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Transcript: Transcript for 09/01/2020 - Finance Committee - Fifth Senedd

Items
Expected timing No. Item

(09:00-09:15)

1.

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Private briefing with expert adviser

Dr Edward Jones, Lecturer in Economics, Bangor University

Minutes:

1.1     The Committee received a private briefing from the Expert Advisor, Dr Edward Jones, Lecturer in Economics, Bangor University.

(09:15)

2.

Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Minutes:

2.1     The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting. David Melding AM attended as a substitute for Nick Ramsay AM.

(09:15)

3.

Paper(s) to note

Minutes of meeting held on 11 December 2019

Minutes of meeting held on 18 December 2019

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

3.1     The minutes were noted.

(09:15-10.15)

4.

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Evidence session 2

Dr Victoria Winckler, Director, Bevan Foundation

Dr Helen Tilley, Senior Research Fellow, Wales Centre for Public Policy

Anna Nicholl, Director of Strategy, Wales Council for Voluntary Action

 

Research brief

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

4.1     The Committee received evidence from Dr Victoria Winckler, Director, Bevan Foundation; Dr Helen Tilley, Senior Research Fellow, Wales Centre for Public Policy; and Anna Nicholl, Director of Strategy, Wales Council for Voluntary Action.

 

(10.15-11.15)

5.

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Evidence session 3

Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

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

Alex Chapman, Consultant, New Economics Foundation

 

Paper 1 - Written evidence from the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Research brief

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

5.1     The Committee received evidence from Cathy Madge, Lead Change Maker, Office of the Future Generations Commissioner; Eurgain Powell, Change Maker, Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales; and Alex Chapman, Consultant, New Economics Foundation.

 

5.2     Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner, sent her apologies.

 

(11.30-12.10)

6.

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Evidence session 4

Edward Evans, Company Director and Secretary, Civil Engineering Contractors Association Wales

 

Research brief

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

6.1     This session was cancelled. Edward Evans, Company Director and Secretary, Civil Engineering Contractors Association Wales sent his apologies.

 

(13.00-14.00)

7.

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Evidence session 5

Robert Chote, Chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility

Andy King, Budget Responsibility Committee member, Office for Budget Responsibility

 

Research brief

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

7.1     The Committee received evidence from Robert Chote, Chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility and Andy King, Budget Responsibility Committee member, Office for Budget Responsibility.

 

(14.00)

8.

Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and the start of the next meeting on 15 January 2020

Minutes:

8.1     The motion was agreed.

(14.00-14.30)

9.

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2020-21: Consideration of evidence

Minutes:

9.1     The Committee considered the evidence received.

(14.30-14.40)

10.

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

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

10.1   The Committee approved the Wales Audit Office Fee Scheme 2019-20, under Standing Orders 18.10(x) and in accordance with section 24(7) of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013.

(14.40-14.45)

11.

Ministerial Direction - NHS pension arrangements for 2019/20

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

11.1   The Committee considered the letter from the Permanent Secretary in relation to the Ministerial Direction regarding proposed changes to NHS Pension arrangements for 2019/20.