Agenda and minutes

Venue: Committee Room 3 - Senedd. View directions

Contact: Bethan Davies 

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Transcript: Transcript for 09/05/2019 - Finance Committee - Fifth Senedd

Items
Expected timing No. Item

1.

Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Minutes:

1.1        The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.

 

1.2        Apologies were received from Alun Davies AM and Neil Hamilton AM.

 

2.

Paper(s) to note

Minutes of the meeting held on 1 May 2019

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

2.1 The papers were noted.

 

 

2.1

PTN1 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd - Supplementary budgets 2019-20 - 30 April 2019

Supporting documents:

2.2

PTN2 - Letter from the Counsel General and Brexit Minister - Legislation (Wales) Bill - Government response to the Committee's report - 3 May 2019

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

2.2 The Committee agreed to write to the Counsel General and Brexit Minister in response to his letter.

 

(09.20-10.20)

3.

Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Evidence session

Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services 

Karen Cornish, Deputy Director, Children and Families Division

Sarah Canning, Head of Legislation, Research and Parenting Branch

 

Paper 1 - Letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services to the Children, Young People and Education Committee – 5 April 2019

Paper 2 - Letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee – 25 April 2019

Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill

Explanatory Memorandum

Research Brief

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

3.1 The Committee took evidence from Julie Morgan AM, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services; Karen Cornish, Deputy Director, Children and Families Division and Sarah Canning, Head of Legislation, Research and Parenting Branch on the financial implications of the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill.

 

3.2 The Deputy Minister agreed to provide further information on how the number of cases of reasonable punishment reported to the police was estimated and how this links to the number of prosecutions in Wales each year. 

(10.20)

4.

Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from items 5, 7-9 and the start of the meeting on 15 May 2019

Minutes:

4.1 The motion was agreed.

 

(10.20-10.30)

5.

Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Bill: Consideration of evidence

Minutes:

5.1 The Committee considered the evidence received.

 

(10.40-11.40)

6.

Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s capital funding sources: Evidence session 3

David Ward, Chief Executive, Tirion Group 

Howel Jones, Corporate Director, Programmes and Project, Local Partnerships

Rosie Pearson, Corporate Director Business Development, and Programme Director PPP and PFI, Local Partnerships

 

Paper 3 – Written evidence: Tirion Group

Research Brief

 

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

6.1 The Committee took evidence from David Ward, Chief Executive, Tirion Group; Howel Jones, Corporate Director, Programmes and Project, Local Partnerships; and Rosie Pearson, Corporate Director Business Development, and Programme Director PPP and PFI, Local Partnerships on the Welsh Government’s capital funding sources.

 

(11.40-11.50)

7.

Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s capital funding sources: Consideration of evidence

Minutes:

7.1 The Committee considered the evidence received.

 

(11.50-12.05)

8.

Retention payments in the construction industry

Paper 4 - Retention payments in the construction industry

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

8.1 The Committee considered the paper and agreed to write to the Chair of the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee.

 

(12.05-12.20)

9.

Assembly Commission - Voluntary Redundancy Scheme Update and Relaxation of the Establishment Cap

Paper 5 - Letter from the Assembly Commission - Voluntary Redundancy Scheme Update and Relaxation of the Establishment Cap - 3 May 2019

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

9.1  The Committee noted the correspondence from the Assembly Commission regarding the update on the voluntary redundancy scheme and relaxation of the establishment cap.