Meetings

Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2020-21

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

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Meeting: 14/09/2020 - Finance Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 PTN 4 – Welsh Government's response to the Committee’s report: Scrutiny of the Welsh Government’s First Supplementary Budget 2020-21

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Meeting: 13/07/2020 - Finance Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 PTN3 - Letter from the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd - First Supplementary Budget 2020-21: Action points from the meeting on 4 June 2020 - 22 June 2020

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Meeting: 13/07/2020 - Finance Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 PTN1 - Letter from the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee to the Minister for International Relations and the Welsh Language - First Supplementary Budget 2020-21 - 17 June 2020

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Meeting: 24/06/2020 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 6)

Debate on the First Supplementary Budget 2020-21

NDM7335 Rebecca Evans (Gower)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 20.30, approves the First Supplementary Budget for the financial year 2020-21 laid in the Table Office on Thursday 28 May 2020.

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;

(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); and

(vi) details of any revisions to the information provided in accordance with Standing Orders 20.7 – 20.7B for the draft budget, as specified in the protocol agreed under the Standing Order 20.1A

The following additional information has been made available to Members:

- a note explaining the main changes from previous plans. 

Supporting Documents
Report of the Finance Committee

Minutes:

The item started at 15.20

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

NDM7335 Rebecca Evans (Gower)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 20.30, approves the First Supplementary Budget for the financial year 2020-21 laid in the Table Office on Thursday 28 May 2020.

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;

(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); and

(vi) details of any revisions to the information provided in accordance with Standing Orders 20.7 – 20.7B for the draft budget, as specified in the protocol agreed under the Standing Order 20.1A

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

30

24

1

55

The motion was agreed.

 


Meeting: 15/06/2020 - Finance Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2020-21: Consideration of draft report

Paper 1 – Draft report

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Minutes:

2.1 The Committee agreed the report with minor changes.


Meeting: 04/06/2020 - Finance Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 5)

Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2020-21: Consideration of evidence

Minutes:

5.1 The Committee considered the evidence received.


Meeting: 04/06/2020 - Finance Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 Welsh Government First Supplementary Budget 2020-21: Evidence session

Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Trefnydd

Matthew Denham-Jones, Deputy Director Financial Controls

Margaret Davies, Deputy Director of Strategic Budgeting

 

Supporting papers:

Paper 1 - First Supplementary Budget 2020-21 Budget Motion

Paper 2 – Letter from the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – 29 May 2020

Research Brief

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

3.1 The Committee took evidence from Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Trefnydd; Matthew Denham-Jones, Deputy Director Financial Controls; and Margaret Davies, Deputy Director of Strategic Budgeting on the Welsh Government’s First Supplementary Budget 2020-21.

 

3.2 The Minister agreed to write to the Committee:

 

·         detailing how much overall additional COVID-19 funding each health board will receive in this supplementary budget;

·         providing the health department’s key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of the £57 million spend to support the Test Trace Protect Strategy, in terms of the capital required to establish the programme and its operating costs;

·         on the outcome of her discussions with the Minister for Housing and Local Government regarding the funding for Armed Forces Liaison Officers.