Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Meeting time: 13.30
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This meeting will be held in a hybrid format, with some Members in the Senedd Chamber and others joining by video-conference.
The Llywydd has determined that, in accordance with Standing Order 34.14A-D, Members will be able to vote from any location by electronic means.
1 Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call Party Spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Minister after Question 2.
2 Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Minister after Question 2.
3 Topical Questions
(0 mins)
No Topical Questions were accepted
4 90 Second Statements
(5 mins)
5 Debate on the Standards of Conduct Committee Report - Fourth Report to the Sixth Senedd under Standing Order 22.9
(15 mins)
NDM8034 Vikki Howells (Cynon Valley)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Considers the Report of the Standards of Conduct Committee - Fourth Report to the Sixth Senedd laid before the Senedd on 15 June 2022 in accordance with Standing Order 22.9.
2. Endorses the recommendation in the report.
6 Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv) - Empowering communities
(60 mins)
NNDM8018 Mabon ap Gwynfor (Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Notes that Wales is home to thousands of local community groups, with hundreds running significant assets that make their communities better places to live.
2. Recognises the huge contribution community groups have made in supporting local people through the challenges of the pandemic.
3. Notes that the previous Welsh Government agreed with the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee's recommendation that it should “develop a programme of empowering communities across Wales with the voluntary sector, acting as an enabling state for community action”.
4. Notes the important role that local authorities often play in ensuring community ownership of assets, and working in partnership with community groups and other organisations to ensure successful community venture.
5. Notes the recent IWA report, Our Land: Communities and Land Use, which finds that Welsh communities are the least empowered in Britain and calls for a major shake-up of community policy in Wales.
6. Further notes the Wales Cooperative Centre’s recently published report, Community ownership of land and assets: Enabling the delivery of community-led housing in Wales.
7. Notes that Wales, unlike Scotland and England, has no legislation giving communities the right to buy local assets of community value.
8. Believes that enabling community groups to retain local buildings and land as community facilities and supporting them to develop active and engaged communities is key to building a more prosperous, equal and greener Wales.
9. Calls on the Welsh Government to:
a) coproduce a communities strategy to develop an enabling state for community action;
b) explore the legal options for establishing a community right to buy in Wales.
Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee: Impact of COVID-19 on the voluntary sector
Our Land: Communities and Land Use
Community ownership of land and assets: Enabling the delivery of community-led housing in Wales
Co-submitters
Luke Fletcher (South Wales West)
Supporters
Adam Price (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr)
Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)
Janet Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy)
Jenny Rathbone (Cardiff Central)
Joel James (South Wales Central)
Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Peredur Owen Griffiths (South Wales East)
Rhys ab Owen (South Wales Central)
Sioned Williams (South Wales West)
7 Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee report - Annual Report on Natural Resources Wales
(30 mins)
NDM8032 Llyr Gruffydd (North Wales)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee report: 'Annual Report on Natural Resources Wales', laid in Table Office on 23 March 2022.
Note: The response of the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 15 June 2022.
8 Welsh Conservatives Debate - The transport network
(60 mins)
NDM8033 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Does not believe that the Welsh transport network is fit for purpose.
The following amendments were tabled:
Amendment 1 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
Delete all and replace with:
1. Believes Llwybr Newydd is a transport strategy for Wales that is fit for the climate emergency.
2. Calls on the UK Government to provide adequate funding to Wales for investment in the public transport network.
Llwybr Newydd: The Wales Transport Strategy 2021
Amendment 2 Sian Gwenllian (Arfon)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Believes that rail infrastructure should be devolved to ensure Wales gets its fair share from projects such as HS2.
9 Voting Time
10 Short Debate
(30 mins)
NDM8030 Jenny Rathbone (Cardiff Central)
School exclusion: more harm than good?
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 28 June 2022