Government of Wales Act 2006

125 Annual Budget motions

(1) For each financial year there is to be moved in the Assembly a motion (referred to in this Act as an “annual Budget motion”) for the purpose of authorising—

(a) the amount of resources which may be used in the financial year by the relevant persons, or pursuant to a relevant enactment, for the services and purposes specified in the motion,

(b) the amount of resources accruing to the relevant persons in the financial year which may be retained by them to be used for the services and purposes so specified (rather than being paid into the Welsh Consolidated Fund), and

(c) the amount which may be paid out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund in the financial year to the relevant persons, or for use pursuant to a relevant enactment, for the services and purposes so specified.

(2) An annual Budget motion may only be moved by the First Minister or a Welsh Minister appointed under section 48.

(3) An annual Budget motion must be accompanied by a written statement made by the Welsh Ministers showing—

(a) the total amount of the payments which they estimate will be made for the financial year under section 118(1),

(b) the total amount of the payments which they estimate will be made to the Welsh Ministers, the First Minister or the Counsel General for the financial year by Ministers of the Crown and government departments, and

(c) the total amount of the payments which they estimate will be made to the Welsh Ministers, the First Minister or the Counsel General for the financial year otherwise than by a Minister of the Crown or government department.

(4) In this Act a reference to the use of resources is a reference to their expenditure, consumption or reduction in value.