Select Committee on the Role of the Legislature in the Budget Process

This Committee was established to examine the role that Tynwald should play in the budget process.

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Call for Evidence

Deadline: Friday 30th May 2025

The Committee would like to invite written submissions from anyone who would like to comment on the Isle of Man’s Budget Process, including individual members of the public, businesses, bodies, and groups.

Submissions may focus on, but are not limited to:

  • The effectiveness of the current mechanisms for scrutinising the Budget;
  • The role that Tynwald Members, Department Members, and Ministers should play in the formulation of the Budget;
  • The timeframes for reviewing the Budget;
  • The availability of training, advice, and information in respect of Members’ analysing the Budget;
  • Whether Tynwald Members should have the power to make amendments to the Budget, and to what degree; and
  • The role of the Public Accounts Committee and the Policy Review Committees in scrutinising the Budget and its delivery.

For information, a research paper outlining the Island’s Budget Process can be found here.

Submissions should be sent to the address below by noon on Friday 30th May 2025. Email is preferred but hard copy is equally acceptable.  Alternative accessible formats can be arranged on request.

Email: committees@tynwald.org.im

Post:

Select Committee on the Role of the Legislature in the Budget Process,
Clerk of Tynwald’s Office, Legislative Buildings,
Finch Road,
Douglas,
IM1 3PW

Please be aware that the Committee may choose to make public any information it receives. Personal contact details are routinely redacted in advance of such publication. If there is any other information in your submission that you do not wish the Committee to publish, or that you believe the Committee should not publish, please explain this in your submission.

Committee Members

​Dr Alex Allinson MHK
Committee Chair

Hon ​David Ashford MBE MHK
Committee Member​

Dawn Kinnish MLC
Committee Member​

Hon Chris Thomas MHK
Committee Member​

The Hon Juan Watterson SHK
Committee Member​

Remit

That Tynwald notes the 2018 Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Recommended Benchmarks for Democratic Legislatures, together with the work done by the OECD and the International Monetary Fund on the role of the Legislature in Budget processes; and that –
(1) Tynwald agrees that scrutiny and debate on significant policies relating to the Island’s fiscal policy is a fundamental component of our democracy;
(2) Tynwald’s main roles are to review and approve the Government’s draft Budget (including its revenue estimates and its spending plans) and to authorise spending to implement the annual Budget plan, which it does in February each year; and
(3) A Select Committee of five Members be established to investigate the role of the Legislature in the Budget process and to submit a report to Tynwald by the last day of February 2026.

Tynwald Court, December 2024

The Committee reserves the right to publish any evidence sent to it in the absence of any agreement that the evidence will be confidential.

Contact the Committee

For enquiries or to submit written evidence please contact:

Clerk to the Committee
Legislative Buildings
Finch Road
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM1 3PW
Tel: 01624 685500
Email: committees@tynwald.org.im