Decision details
Debate on the Annual Budget
Decision Maker: Communities, Equality and Local Government 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 16:23
Voting on the motion under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NDM5109 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
2013-2014 laid in the Table Office by the Minister for Finance and Leader of
the House on 27 November 2012.
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:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
25 |
7 |
18 |
50 |
The motion was agreed.
Publication date: 04/12/2012
Date of decision: 04/12/2012
Decided at meeting: 04/12/2012 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly