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Finance
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The remit of the committee is to consider and report on Executive reports/documents on proposals for, or budgets of, public expenditure, or for tax-varying resolutions; committee reports concerning public expenditure; any report made by a committee setting out proposals concerning public expenditure; and Budget bills, and (discretionary) timetable for such bills and handling of financial business; and any other matter relating to or affecting the expenditure of the Scottish Administration or other expenditure payable out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund.

Membership
Andrew Welsh (Convener)   
Jackie Baillie (Deputy Convener)   
Derek Brownlee
Joe FitzPatrick
James Kelly
Alex Neil
Jeremy Purvis
David Whitton
For further information on the Committee's current and past membership including substitutes, follow this link. Information on how to contact the Finance Committee can be found on the Contact Details page.

Current Business

The Scottish Budget - The Committee is currently scrutinising the Scottish Government's Budget for 2009-10.  Please follow the links below for information on the 2009-10 process and the process in general.

Review of the Budget Process - The Committee is currently undertaking a review of the parliamentary budget process.  Please follow the link below for the dedicated homepage for the review.

Inquiry into the funding of capital investment projects - The Committee is currently conducting an inquiry into the methods of funding capital investment projects. Please follow the link below to the homepage for the inquiry.

Scrutiny of Financial Memoranda - The Committee considers the financial implications of all legislation, through the scrutiny of Financial Memoranda. Please follow the link below for an outline of the Committee's three-level framework of scrutiny and details of all bills currently under consideration.

Further information can be found on the Current Business page.


Committee Meetings

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Next Meeting: 28th Meeting, Tuesday 25 November 2008

The Committee will meet at 2.00 pm in Committee Room 1.

1. Decisions on taking business in private: The Committee will decide whether its consideration of a draft report on the 2009-10 budget process at this meeting and future meetings should be taken in private and whether its consideration of a draft report on the Financial Memorandum of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Bill should be taken in private at a future meeting. The Committee will also decide whether its consideration of a proposed contingent liability should be taken in private at its next meeting.

2. Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Bill: The Committee will take evidence on the Financial Memorandum of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Bill from—

Bob Irvine, Head of Water, Air, Soils & Flooding and Water Industry Divisions, David Reid, Head of Finance Programme Management Division, and Judith Tracey, Head of Flooding Policy Team, Scottish Government.

3. Inquiry into the methods of funding capital investment projects (in private): The Committee will consider a draft report.

4. Budget process 2009-10 (Stage 2): The Committee will consider a draft report on the Scottish Government's Draft Budget 2009-10.

Last Meeting: 27th Meeting, Tuesday 18 November 2008

Previous Meetings

Committee Reports

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