Finance and Public Administration Committee

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.