Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 12 October 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.
1 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.
2 Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
(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 Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee report - Review of the Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021
(60 mins)
NDM8090 Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the report of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee on its Inquiry: Review of The Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) Regulations 2021, which was laid in the Table Office on 8 June 2022.
Note: The response of the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 5 October 2022.
6 Debate on the Health and Social Care Committee report - Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals
(60 mins)
NDM8089 Russell George (Montgomeryshire)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the Health and Social Care Committee report ‘Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals’, laid on 15 June 2022.
Note: The response of the Welsh Government to the report was laid in the Table Office on 29 July 2022.
7 Plaid Cymru Debate - The private rental sector
(60 mins)
NDM8091 Sian Gwenllian (Arfon)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Notes that rising rents are adding to pressures on households across Wales as the cost-of-living crisis escalates further.
2. Notes that Wales’s average rental values have increased to £926 per month in June 2022, up by 15.1 per cent compared to June 2021.
3. Notes the increased numbers on social housing waiting lists, and the lack of social housing stock.
4. Notes that in the event of an eviction there is a lack of appropriate housing provision and people face homelessness.
5. Believes that tenants must be protected as a matter of urgency this winter.
6. Calls on the Welsh Government to implement emergency measures to:
a) freeze rents in the private rental sector;
b) place a moratorium on evictions.
The following amendments have been tabled:
Amendment 1 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
Delete all after point 1 and replace with:
Believes that the UK Government is failing to grasp their responsibilities to tackle the cost-of-living crisis and calls for the UK Government to honour its commitment to uplift benefits in line with inflation, including an immediate unfreezing and increase to local housing allowance rates in Wales.
Recognises that:
a) social tenants in Wales are protected from rent rises this winter;
b) from 1 December the Renting Homes Act will offer tenants greater protection from eviction;
c) more than 25,200 people, presenting as homeless, have been supported into temporary accommodation since the start of the pandemic.
Welcomes:
a) the additional £6m to local authorities that can be used to support payment of rent arrears or providing a rent guarantee;
b) the £65m investment in transitional accommodation capital programme to increase the amount of social housing, ensuring more people have a place to call home.
If amendment 1 is agreed, amendment 2 will be de-selected.
Amendment 2 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)
Delete point 6 and replace with:
Notes the spiralling cost of temporary accommodation spend for local authorities.
Amendment 3 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)
Add new points at end of motion:
Notes the increasing number of section 21 eviction notices being issued by private landlords.
Calls on the Welsh Government to:
a) work with local authorities to better promote the empty home loan scheme returning more empty houses into homes;
b) review and speed up the planning application process to enable developers to meet house-building targets;
c) review what steps can be taken to convert empty space above retail units into affordable, centrally located housing.
8 Voting Time
9 Short Debate
(30 mins)
NDM8092 Luke Fletcher (South Wales West)
Education maintenance allowance: a lifeline in the current crisis
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 18 October 2022