Plenary

 

Meeting date:
Tuesday, 20 November 2012

 

Meeting time:
13:30

 

 

 

 

Agenda

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1. Questions to the First Minister   

The Presiding Officer will call the Party Leaders to ask questions without notice to the First Minister after Question 2. 

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Urgent Question

The item started at 14.26

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2. Business Statement and Announcement (30 mins) 

View Business Statement and Announcement

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3. Statement by the Minister for Education and Skills: The Future Delivery of Education Services in Wales (45 mins)

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4. Statement by the Minister for Local Government and Communities on Winter Preparations (30 mins)

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5. Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill relating powers to include sunset and review provisions in subordinate legislation (15 mins) 

NNDM5061 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6, agrees that those provisions of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill which relate to a power for Welsh Ministers to include sunset and review clauses in subordinate legislation, insofar as they fall within the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales, should be considered by the UK Parliament.

A Legislative Consent Memorandum has been laid in Table Office on 5 October 2012 in accordance with Standing Order 29.2(i).

Supporting Documents
A copy of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill can be found at:
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/enterpriseandregulatoryreform/documents.html
Legislative Consent Memorandum
Report of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee
 

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6. Debate on The Children's Commissioner for Wales' Annual Report 2011-12 (60 mins) 

NDM5095 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

Notes the Children’s Commissioner for Wales' Annual Report 2011-12.

The 2011-12 Annual Report of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales can be accessed on the following link:

http://www.childcomwales.org.uk/uploads/publications/299.pdf

The following amendments have been tabled:

Amendment 1 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)

Add as a new point at the end of motion:

Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the UK Government to ensure that the Children’s Commissioner for Wales has responsibility for both devolved and non-devolved issues relating to children in Wales.

Amendment 2 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)

Add as a new point at the end of motion:

Calls on the Welsh Government to review governance arrangements for the Children’s Commissioner for Wales and consider making the Commissioner accountable to the National Assembly for Wales rather than solely to the First Minister.

Amendment 3 - William Graham (South Wales East)

Add as new point at end of motion:

Notes that the Children’s Commissioner for Wales' press release accompanying the Annual Report 2011-12:

a) acknowledges concerns raised with the Children’s Commissioner for Wales that some young people in Wales have no access to good quality youth services and that youth services are undervalued; and

b) calls for a national commitment to recognise the value of youth work.

The press release can be accessed on the following link:

http://www.childcomwales.org.uk/uploads/publications/301.pdf

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Voting Time

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7. Short Debate (30 mins) 

NDM5075 Lynne Neagle (Torfaen): The Perfect Storm

Assessing the cumulative impact of housing related welfare reform in Wales.

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The Assembly will sit again in Plenary at 13:30, Wednesday, 21 November 2012

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