Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:52 pm on 7 June 2017.
Well, Chair, the way that the system works in the National Assembly is that each Minister is directly responsible for the production of the explanatory memoranda and the RIAs that go along with them. There is a piece of work that is done form the centre, through the office of the chief economist, to make sure that the methodology deployed in the RIA is one that would stand up to examination. The particular figures that are then used in that method are the responsibility of the individual Cabinet Secretary. The letter that Members received yesterday from the Member in charge of that Bill explained why the figures as originally anticipated have had to be revisited. I think, as Nick Ramsay said, it is the first time that a financial resolution has been postponed in this way. While I’m certain that the Member in charge would have preferred to have been able to move the financial resolution yesterday, the fact that he has a plan to bring it forward in September shows that the checks and balances in our system have successfully identified the need for further work to be done there.