Decision details
Dadl ar y Gyllideb Derfynol ar gyfer 2016-17
Decision Maker: 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
Is Key decision?: Yes
Purpose:
The Finance Committee looked at the Welsh Government’s budget for 2016-17 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 falls within their respective remits and then reported to the Finance Committee, detailing any concerns they had.
The Welsh Government published its Draft Budget for 2016-17 on 8 December 2015.
The Finance Committee held a public consultation into the draft budget proposals between 9 December 2015 and 7 January 2016.
The Finance Committee published a report on its Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget for 2016-17 (PDF, 1MB) on 2 February 2016.
A Plenary debate on the draft budget was held on 9 February 2016.
The Welsh Government responded to the Finance Committee’s report (PDF, 674KB) on 6 March 2016.
Decision:
The item started
at 15.25
Voting on the motion under this item was
deferred until Voting Time.
NDM5986 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 2016-2017 laid in the Table Office by the Minister for
Finance and Government Business on 1 March 2016.
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 2006;
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 result was as follows:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
28 |
5 |
22 |
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