Local Government Committee, 25 Sep 2001
Meeting date: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Official Report
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Budget Process 2002-03
We proceed now to the budget process. All that I ask committee members to do is accept the proposed approach to the budget process for next week, when Professor Arthur Midwinter will come to advise the committee. We considered the budget at stage 1 in May and reported to the Finance Committee, so we have taken most of the evidence that we want to take.
As the committee is constrained by the time by which we must put our report into the system, I suggest that we hear from the Minister for Finance and Local Government on 2 October. Do members agree to pursue that approach? The committee's work load means that we do not have time to take more evidence than that. Are members happy that we will have Arthur Midwinter along with us next week and that the only person whom we will cross-examine is the minister?
Members indicated agreement.
Meeting closed at 15:54.