Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting Minutes
18th Meeting, 2022
- Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2022
- Session: 6
- Location: TG.40-CR1 The Burns Room
- Meeting opened at: 09:45
- Meeting closed at: 13:04
- Published: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 03:35pm
Committee Members Attendees
- Kenneth Gibson (Convener)
- Daniel Johnson (Deputy Convener)
- Ross Greer (Member)
- Douglas Lumsden (Member)
- John Mason (Member)
- Liz Smith (Member)
- Michelle Thomson (Member)
In Attendance
Mairi Spowage, Budget Adviser
1 Work programme (in private):
The Committee considered and agreed its work programme.
2 Annual report (in private):
The Committee considered and agreed its annual report for the parliamentary year from 13 May 2021 to 12 May 2022.
3 Scotland's Economic and Fiscal Forecasts - May 2022, Resource Spending Review and Medium-Term Financial Strategy:
The Committee took evidence from—
Dame Susan Rice DBE, Chair, Professor Francis Breedon, Commissioner, Professor David Ulph, Commissioner, and John Ireland, Chief Executive, Scottish Fiscal Commission;
and then from—
Kate Forbes, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy, and Gary Gillespie, Chief Economist, Scottish Government.