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National Health Service Finance (Wales) Bill: Stage 2 - Consideration of Amendments

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Decision Maker: Finance Committee - Fourth Assembly, Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Plenary - Fourth Assembly

Status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Purpose:

A Government Act, introduced by Mark Drakeford, Minister for Health and Social Services on 30 September 2013. The Business Committee remitted the Bill to Finance Committee and agreed that Stage 1 proceedings were not required given the level of scrutiny of this policy undertaken by the Public Accounts Committee.

About the Act

The purpose of the Act is to change the financial duties of Local Health Boards (LHBs) under the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 from an annual statutory requirement for expenditure not to exceed resource limit, to a regime which considers the financial duty to manage its resources within approved limits over a 3 year period.

The National Health Service (Finance (Wales) Act 2014 (external website) became law in Wales (external website) on 27 January 2014.

Record of Passage in the National Assembly for Wales

The following table sets out the dates for each stage of the Act’s passage through the National Assembly for Wales.

Stage	Documents
Bill introduced – 30 September 2013	National Health Service Finance (Wales) Bill, as introduced Explanatory Memorandum Presiding Officer’s Statement: 30 September 2013 Business Committee’s Report on the timetable for consideration of the Bill: 7 October 2013 Plenary statement: Introduction of the National Health Service (Finance) (Wales) Bill: 1 October 2013 Research Service Bill Summary
Stage 1 – Committee consideration of general principles	The Business Committee agreed not to refer the proposed Bill to a Committee for consideration of the general principles at Stage 1.
Stage 1 - Debate in plenary on general principles	A debate took place in Plenary on 8 October 2013. The motion to agree the general principles of the Bill was agreed.
Financial Resolution	A Financial Resolution in relation to the National Health Service Finance (Wales) Bill was agreed in Plenary on 8 October 2013.
Stage 2 – Committee consideration of amendments	Stage 2 consideration took place in Committee on 7 November 2013. Concise Minutes: 7 November 2013 National Health Service Finance (Wales) Bill, as amended at Stage 2 (Amendments to the Bill since the previous version are indicated by sidelining in the right margin.) Notice of Amendments: 22 October 2013 Notice of Amendments: 24 October 2013 Notice of Amendments: 29 October 2013 Notice of Amendments: 31 October 2013 Marshalled List of Amendments: 7 November 2013 Grouping of Amendments: 7 November 2013 Ministerial correspondence Correspondence from the Auditor General for Wales
Stage 3 – Plenary consideration of amendments	Stage 3 consideration and disposal of amendments took place in Plenary on 3 December 2013. Notice of Amendments: 22 November 2013 Notice of Amendments: 27 November 2013 Marshalled List of Amendments: 3 December 2013 Grouping of Amendments: 3 December 2013 Correspondence from the Auditor General for Wales
Stage 4 – Passing of the Bill in Plenary	The Bill was agreed by the Assembly in accordance with SO 12.36 on 3 December 2013. Bill as passed National Health Service Finance (Wales) Bill, as passed (Crown XML)
Royal Assent	Royal Assent was given on 27 January 2014.

Contact information

Clerk: Fay Buckle

Phone: 029 2089 8041

Postal address:

National Assembly for Wales

Cardiff Bay

CF99 1NA

Email: FinanceCommittee@wales.gov.uk

Decisions:

2.1 In accordance with Standing Order 26.21, the Committee considered and disposed of the amendments to the Bill in the following order:

Sections 1 – 3

Section 1:

No amendments were tabled to this section, therefore it was deemed agreed to.

Section 2:

Amendment 8 (Mark Drakeford) was withdrawn

Amendment 3 (Paul Davies)

For	Against	Abstain

Simon Thomas Peter Black Paul Davies Jocelyn Davies	Christine Chapman Julie Morgan Mike Hedges Ann Jones
4	4	0
As the vote was tied, the Chair used her casting vote in the negative (in accordance with SO 6.20 (ii)), Amendment 3 was not agreed to.

Amendment 1 (Simon Thomas) was withdrawn

Amendment 2 (Simon Thomas)

For	Against	Abstain

Simon Thomas Peter Black Paul Davies Jocelyn Davies	Christine Chapman Julie Morgan Mike Hedges Ann Jones
4	4	0
As the vote was tied, the Chair used her casting vote in the negative (in accordance with SO 6.20 (ii)), Amendment 2 was not agreed to.

Amendment 10 (Simon Thomas) was withdrawn

Amendment 9 (Mark Drakeford) was agreed to, in accordance with Standing Order 17.34 (i).

Section 3:

No amendments were tabled to this section, therefore it was deemed agreed to.

New Sections:

Amendment 4 (Paul Davies)

For	Against	Abstain

Simon Thomas Peter Black Paul Davies Jocelyn Davies	Christine Chapman Julie Morgan Mike Hedges Ann Jones
4	4	0
As the vote was tied, the Chair used her casting vote in the negative (in accordance with SO 6.20 (ii)), Amendment 4 was not agreed to.

Amendment 5 (Paul Davies) was withdrawn

Amendment 6 (Paul Davies) was withdrawn

Amendment 7 (Paul Davies) fell

2.2 The Chair advised that all sections of the Bill had been agreed by the Committee and as all amendments had been disposed of, Stage 3 will commence from 8 November 2013.

Publication date: 08/11/2013

Date of decision: 07/11/2013

Decided at meeting: 07/11/2013 - Finance Committee - Fourth Assembly

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