Decision details
Dadl ar Ail Gyllideb Atodol 2015-16
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 15.03
Voting on the motion under this item was
deferred until Voting Time.
NDM5967 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 2015-16 laid in the Table Office and emailed to
Assembly Members on Tuesday, 9 February 2016.
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 2006;
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 |
28 |
0 |
27 |
55 |
The motion was
agreed.
Publication date: 08/03/2016
Date of decision: 08/03/2016
Decided at meeting: 08/03/2016 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly