Chief Secretary, David Gauke, attends finance ministers quadrilateral meeting

Tuesday 25 Oct 2016 @ 13:25
HM Treasury

Also published by:: Wales Office

Chief Secretary to the Treasury, yesterday met with finance ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for constructive discussion.

A finance ministers quadrilateral meeting was held yesterday in 1 Horse Guards Road under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rt Hon David Gauke MP.

The participants were:

from HM government: the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rt Hon David Gauke MP; the Secretary of State for Scotland, Rt Hon David Mundell MP; the Secretary of State for Wales, the Rt Hon Alun Cairns MP; the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP
from the Welsh government the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, Mark Drakeford AM
from the Northern Ireland Executive the Minister of Finance, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir MLA
from the Scottish Government the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Constitution, Derek Mackay MSP

The 5 principal agenda items at the meeting were:

EU funding
Autumn Statement
taxes and levies
financial transactions
classification of housing

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