Summary - National Assembly for Wales

the 2011-12 financial year, and so is likely to be allocated via a supplementary
budget for 2011-12 (expected early in 2012).
4. Overview of the Welsh Block
Schedule 6 of the Annual Budget Motion shows £15.4 billion has made available
by HM Treasury for the total Welsh block 26 in 2012-13 financial year. 27 This is
£431,000 lower that that stated at the time of the draft budget. 28
It should be noted that when looking at the budget, the figures presented by
the Welsh Government as the 2011-12 baseline are based on those in the
Supplementary Budget 2011-12, 1 restated to remove non-recurrent
allocations. The restatement has altered the figures as follows:
� Housing, Regeneration and Heritage portfolio: the 2011-12 baseline is
£150,000 lower than the 2011-12 supplementary budget allocation.
This is due to the removal of an allocation from reserves to the National
Botanical Garden of Wales.
� Central Services and Administration portfolio: the 2011-12 baseline is
£8.8 million lower than the 2011-12 supplementary budget allocation.
This is due to the removal of an allocation from reserves in relation to
the costs of the Assembly elections.
There is a corresponding increase in the baseline revenue reserves of £8.95
million to account for this restating.
4.1. Total managed expenditure (TME)
Tables 2 and 3 show TME in the Welsh block; ie allocations to Welsh Government
departments, plus provision for the direct funded bodies, 29 reserves and direct
charges, but excluding provision for the Wales Office. Table 2 shows the changes
in TME since the draft budget and table 3 shows the change from 2011-12 to
2012-13 and the overall change for the budget period (2011-12 to 2014-15), in
both cash and real terms.
26 Including departmental expenditure limits and annually managed expenditure.
27 Welsh Government, Annual Budget Motion 2012-13, November2011 (Schedule 6 page 24) [accessed 1
December 2011]
28 At draft budget the figure was £15,406,906,000, at Final Budget this is £15,406,475,000.
29 The direct funded bodies are the National Assembly for Wales Commission, the Public Services Ombudsman
for Wales and the Auditor General for Wales.
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