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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)
Tom McCabe (Deputy Convener)
Derek Brownlee
Malcolm Chisholm

Linda Fabiani
Joe FitzPatrick
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
Public Services Reform (Scotland) Bill - The Committee has been designated as lead committee on the Bill and is currently scrutinising the Bill at Stage 1. Please follow the link below for full information on the Committee's scrutiny of the Bill. Finance Committee - scrutiny of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Bill The Scottish Budget - The Committee will shortly be scrutinising the Draft Budget 2010-11. Please follow the links below for information on the Draft Budget and the budget process in general. Finance Committee - scutiny of the Draft Budget 2010-11 Finance Committee - the Budget Process Review of the Budget Process - The Committee has concluded its 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 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: 26th Meeting, Tuesday 17 November 2009 Papers 26 (660KB pdf first posted 13.11.2009) Minute of Proceedings of Meeting 17 November 2009 Official Report of Meeting 17 November 2009 Previous Meetings

Committee Reports
Recent Committee Reports: 29 June 2009 5th Report 2009: Report on the Review of the Budget Process Response from the Scottish Government (1.6MB pdf posted 02.09.2009) 25 June 2009 Report on the Financial Memorandum of the Marine (Scotland) Bill 22 June 2009 4th Report 2009: Report on Public Sector Pay Response from the Scottish Government (372KB pdf posted 02.09.2009) 18 June 2009 Report on the Financial Memorandum of the Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Bill 12 June 2009 3rd Report 2009: Annual Report 2008-09 9 June 2009 2nd Report 2009: Strategic Budget Scrutiny Response from the Scottish Government (505KB pdf posted 02.09.2009) 21 May 2009 Report on the Financial Memorandum of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill Previous Reports.