Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Bill would require the Government to set maximum limits on total public spending for each of the next three financial years. It would also divide those limits into spending ceilings for individual government departments, covering voted spending and spending from the Social Insurance and National Training Funds. The aim is to improve medium-term budget planning and control.

Formal long title

make provision for medium-term expenditure management and for that purpose to make provision for Government expenditure ceilings and Ministerial expenditure ceilings, and to amend the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011

Last updated 17 April 2018