Decision details
Debate on the First Supplementary Budget 2015-2016
Decision Maker: Finance Committee - Fourth Assembly, Plenary - 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.
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.
Decision:
The item started at 15.37
Voting on the
motion under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NDM5798 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose that the Assembly, in accordance
with Standing Order 20.30, approves the First Supplementary Budget for the financial
year 2015-16 laid in the Table Office and emailed to Assembly Members on
Tuesday, 23 June 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 |
34 |
16 |
0 |
50 |
The motion was agreed.
Publication date: 14/07/2015
Date of decision: 14/07/2015
Decided at meeting: 14/07/2015 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly