1. Decisions on taking business in private

The Committee will decide whether to take item 3 in private and also take future items to consider evidence heard during pre-budget scrutiny 2027-28 in private at future meetings.

2. Pre-budget Scrutiny 2027-28: Affordability and sustainability of Scotland's tax and spending plans

The Committee will take evidence from—

• Professor David Bell
  Professor of Economics
  University of Stirling
• Dr João Sousa
  Senior Research Economist
  Institute for Fiscal Studies

and then from:

• Stephen Boyd
  Director
  Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Scotland
• Professor Jim Gallagher
  RSE Trustee and Chair of the RSE Audit and Risk Committee
  Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Alison Payne
  Research Director
  Enlighten

3. Pre-budget scrutiny 2027-28: Affordability and sustainability of Scotland's tax and spending plans

The Committee will consider the evidence heard at agenda item 2.

4. Work programme (in private)

The Committee will consider its work programme.