Decision details

Debate on the Second Supplementary Budget 2014-15

Decision Maker: Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly, Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee - Fourth Assembly, Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee - Fourth Assembly, Enterprise and Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Environment and Sustainability Committee - Fourth Assembly, Finance Committee - Fourth Assembly, Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly, Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly, Plenary - Fourth Assembly, Public Accounts Committee - Fourth Assembly, Standards of Conduct Committee - Fourth Assembly

Status: Recommendations approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Purpose:

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.

Decision:

The item started at 14.47

 

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

NNDM5696 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

 

To propose that the Assembly, in accordance with Standing Order 20.30, approves the Second Supplementary Budget for the financial year 2014-15 laid in the Table Office and emailed to Assembly Members on Tuesday, 10 February 2015.

 

Footnote:

 

In accordance with the relevant provisions contained in the Government of Wales Act 2006 and Standing Order 20, the Supplementary Budget comprises the following information:

 

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

 

(ii) the resources agreed by the Treasury for the Welsh block budget for the financial year covered by the motion;

 

(iii) 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;

 

(iv) 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

 

(v) 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:

 

- a note explaining the main changes from previous plans.

 

The result was as follows:

For

Abstain

Against

Total

33

11

12

56

The motion was agreed.

 

Publication date: 10/03/2015

Date of decision: 10/03/2015

Decided at meeting: 10/03/2015 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly