Decision details
Stage 3 Standing Order 26.44 debate on the NHS Finance (Wales) Bill
Decision Maker: Finance Committee - Fourth Assembly, Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Purpose:
A Government Act, introduced by Mark Drakeford, Minister for Health and Social Services on 30 September 2013. The Business Committee remitted the Bill to Finance Committee and agreed that Stage 1 proceedings were not required given the level of scrutiny of this policy undertaken by the Public Accounts Committee.
About the Act
The purpose of the Act is to change the financial duties of Local Health Boards (LHBs) under the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 from an annual statutory requirement for expenditure not to exceed resource limit, to a regime which considers the financial duty to manage its resources within approved limits over a 3 year period.
The National Health Service (Finance (Wales) Act 2014 (external website) became law in Wales (external website) on 27 January 2014.
Record of Passage in
the National Assembly for Wales
The following table sets out the dates for each stage of the Act’s passage through the National Assembly for Wales.
Stage |
Documents |
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Presiding
Officer’s Statement: 30 September 2013 Business
Committee’s Report on the timetable for consideration of the Bill: 7 October
2013 |
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Concise
Minutes: 7 November 2013 National
Health Service Finance (Wales) Bill, as amended at Stage 2 (Amendments to
the Bill since the previous version are indicated by sidelining in the right
margin.) Notice
of Amendments: 22 October 2013 Notice of Amendments: 29 October 2013 Notice of Amendments: 31 October 2013 Marshalled List of Amendments: 7 November 2013 Grouping of Amendments: 7 November 2013 Correspondence from the Auditor General for Wales
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Notice
of Amendments: 22 November 2013 Notice
of Amendments: 27 November 2013 Marshalled
List of Amendments: 3 December 2013 Grouping
of Amendments: 3 December 2013 |
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National Health Service Finance (Wales) Bill, as passed (Crown XML) |
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Contact information
Clerk: Fay Buckle
Phone: 029 2089
8041
Postal address:
National Assembly for Wales
Cardiff Bay
CF99 1NA
Decision:
The
Item started at 17.29
In accordance with Standing Order 26.36, amendments will be
disposed of in the order which the sections and schedules to which they relate,
arise in the Bill.
The amendments have been grouped for the purposes of debate and the
groupings will be debated as follows:
1.
Overview
1
2.
Financial Duties of Local Health Boards
2
3.
Planning Duties of Local Health Boards and Welsh Ministers
3
4.
Reporting
4, 4A, 5, 7, 8
These amendments will be disposed
of in the order - 4A, 4, 5, 7
5.
Power to Borrow
6
Voting was taken in the order set out in the Marshalled List
of Amendments.
Amendment 1 was agreed in accordance with Standing
Order 12.36.
Amendment 2 was agreed in accordance with Standing
Order 12.36.
Amendment 3 was agreed in accordance with Standing
Order 12.36.
A vote was taken on Amendment 4A:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
18 |
0 |
38 |
56 |
Amendment 4A was not agreed.
Amendment 4 was agreed in accordance with Standing
Order 12.36.
A vote was taken on Amendment 5:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
28 |
0 |
29 |
57 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20 the Deputy Presiding
Officer exercised his casting vote by voting against the amendment. Therefore,
the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 6:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
18 |
9 |
28 |
55 |
Amendment 6 was not agreed.
A vote was taken on Amendment 7:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
28 |
55 |
Amendment 7 was not agreed.
As amendment 7 was not agreed, amendment 8 fell.
All
sections and schedules of the Bill were deemed agreed, concluding Stage 3
proceedings.
Publication date: 03/12/2013
Date of decision: 03/12/2013
Decided at meeting: 03/12/2013 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly