Decision details

The Finance Committee looked at the Welsh Government’s budget from a strategic, overarching perspective.

It also worked with the other Assembly committees to ensure that proposals for specific Ministerial portfolios were considered in detail.  Committees undertook their own focussed evidence sessions with the relevant Ministers in order to examine the areas of the budget that fell within their respective remits and then reported to the Finance Committee, detailing any concerns they had.

The committee held a consultation on the government’s draft budget proposals from July 2014 to September 2014.

The Finance Committee’s report on the draft budget, along with relevant correspondence to its scrutiny, can be found below.

The item started at 16.01

Voting on the motion under this item was deferred until Voting Time.

NDM5651 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with Standing Order 20.25:

Approves the Annual Budget for the financial year 2015-16 laid in the Table Office by the Minister for Finance and Government Business on 2 December 2014.

Footnote:

In accordance with the relevant provisions contained in the Government of Wales Act 2006 and Standing Order 20.28, the Annual Budget comprises the following information:

1. the written statement required under section 125(3) of the Government of Wales Act;

2. the resources agreed by the Treasury for the Welsh block budget for the financial year covered by the motion;

3. a reconciliation between the resources allocated to the Welsh block budget by the Treasury and the resources to be authorised for use in the motion;

4. a reconciliation between the estimated amounts to be paid into the Welsh Consolidated Fund by the Secretary of State and the amounts to be authorised for payment out of the Fund in the motion; and

5. a reconciliation between the resources to be authorised under section 125(1)(a) and (b) of the Act and the amounts to be authorised for payment out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund under section 125(1)(c).

The following additional information has been made available to Members:

an Explanatory Note on changes between Draft Budget proposals and the Annual Budget.

The result was as follows:

The Motion was agreed.