Finance Committee

 

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 2 - Senedd

 

 

 

Meeting date:

Wednesday, 22 October 2014

 

 

 

Meeting time:

09.30 - 12.00

 

 

 

This meeting can be viewed on Senedd TV at:
http://www.senedd.tv/Meeting/Archive/61be0bb9-2d4e-4fea-9f09-ce827cb04984?autostart=True

 

 

Concise Minutes:

 

 

 

Assembly Members:

 

Jocelyn Davies AM (Chair)

Peter Black AM

Christine Chapman AM

Mike Hedges AM

Alun Ffred Jones AM

Ann Jones AM

Julie Morgan AM

Nick Ramsay AM

 

 

 

 

 

Witnesses:

 

Professor Max Munday, Cardiff University

Mike Usher, Wales Audit Office

 

 

 

 

 

Committee Staff:

 

Bethan Davies (Clerk)

Claire Griffiths (Deputy Clerk)

Tanwen Summers (Deputy Clerk)

Richard Bettley (Researcher)

Joanest Varney-Jackson (Legal Advisor)

Don Peebles (Expert Advisor)

Ian Summers (Expert Advisor)

 

 

 

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Transcript

View the meeting transcript.

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1    Introductions, apologies and substitutions

1.1       The Chair welcomed the Members to Committee.

 

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2    Best Practice Budget Processes Inquiry Part II: Evidence Session 3

2.1 The Committee took evidence from Professor Max Munday, Director of Welsh Economy Research Unit, Cardiff Business School on the Best Practice Budget Processes Inquiry Part II.

 

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3    Best Practice Budget Processes Inquiry Part II: Evidence Session 4

3.1 The Committee took evidence from Mike Usher, Sector Lead, Health & Central Government, Wales Audit Office on the Best Practice Budget Processes Inquiry Part II.

 

3.2 Mike Usher agreed to confirm who is presently responsible for collecting landfill tax and how accurate estimates of revenue for Non-Domestic Rating have been compared to actual revenue.

 

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4    Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:

4.1 The motion was agreed.

 

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5    Best Practice Budget Processes Inquiry Part II: Consideration of evidence received

5.1 Members considered the evidence received.

 

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6    Planning (Wales) Bill: Financial Implication of the Bill

6.1 Members considered the briefing paper on the Planning (Wales) Bill and agreed they would invite Carl Sargeant AM, Minister for Natural Resources, to discuss the financial implications of the Bill.   

 

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7    Welsh Government Draft Budget 2015-16: Consideration of key issues

7.1 Members considered the key issues.

 

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