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- Finance Committee Session 2
- Finance Committee Session 1

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. Finance Committee - scrutiny of the Scottish Budget 2009-10 Finance Committee - the Budget Process 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. Finance Committee - Review of the Budget Process Inquiry into methods of funding of capital investment projects - The Committee has now concluded its inquiry into methods of funding capital investment projects and published its report on 16 December 2008. Please follow the link below to the homepage for the inquiry. Finance Committee - inquiry into the funding of capital investment projects 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. Finance Committee - scrutiny of Financial Memoranda Further information can be found on the Current Business page.

Committee Meetings
View live committee meetings or view archived committee meetings Next Meeting: Last Meeting: 30th Meeting, Tuesday 9 December 2008 Papers 30 (1.3MB pdf first posted 05.12.2008) Minute of Proceedings of Meeting 9 December 2008 Official Report of Meeting 9 December 2008 Previous Meetings

Committee Reports
Recent Committee Reports: 16 December 2008 8th Report 2008: Inquiry into methods of funding capital investment projects (HTML version) 16 December 2008 8th Report 2008: Inquiry into methods of funding capital investment projects (776 KB pdf first posted 16.12.2008) 11 December 2008 Report on the Financial Memorandum of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Bill 10 December 2008 7th Report 2008: Report on the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2009-10 1 December 2008 6th Report 2008: The draft Budget (Scotland) Act 2008 Amendment Order 2008 20 November 2008 Report on the Financial Memorandum of the Health Boards (Membership and Elections) (Scotland) Bill 12 November 2008 5th Report 2008: The draft Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008 29 October 2008 4th Report 2008: Report on the Financial Memorandum of the Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Bill 1 October 2008 Report on the Financial Memorandum of the Disabled Persons' Parking Places (Scotland) Bill Previous Reports.