Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Meeting time: 13.30
This meeting can be
viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/13522
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1 Questions to the First Minister
The item started at 13.30
The first 8 questions were asked. The Presiding Officer invited party leaders to ask questions to the First Minister after question 2.
2 Business Statement and Announcement
The item started at 14.32
3 Statement by the Minister for Finance and Local Government: Update on 2023-24 Financial Position
The item started at 14.47
4 Statement by the Minister for Economy: Regional Economic Development
The item started at 15.45
5 Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Partnership: National Hate Crime Awareness Week
The item started at 16.25
6 The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2023
The item started at 16.51
NDM8377 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5, approves that the draft The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2023 is made in accordance with the draft laid in the Table Office on 19 September 2023.
The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
7 LCM on the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
The item started at 16.53
Voting on the motion under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NDM8378 Julie James (Swansea East)
To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6 agrees that provisions in the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill in so far as they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd, should be considered by the UK Parliament.
A Legislative Consent Memorandum was laid in Table Office on 28 September 2022, a Revised Legislative Consent Memorandum was laid on 25 November 2022 and Supplementary Legislative Consent Memoranda were laid on 30 November 2022, 27 April 2023, 16 August 2023, and 05 October 2023 in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill – UK Parliament
The result was as follows:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
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43 |
0 |
13 |
56 |
The motion was agreed
8 Debate: The Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ Annual Report 2022-23
The item started at 17.35
Voting on the motion and amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NDM8376 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the Children's Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report 2022-23.
Children’s Commissioner for Wales’s Annual Report 2022-23
The following amendments were tabled:
Amendment 1 Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)
Add as new points at end of motion:
Notes that a third of children in Wales were living in poverty between 2019 and 2022, but regrets that this statistic predates the current cost-of-living crisis, meaning that the actual child poverty figure is likely to be far higher.
Supports the Children's Commissioner’s call on the Welsh Government to publish a detailed child poverty strategy which contains specific actions, targets and milestones for delivery.
A vote was taken on amendment 1:
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For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
28 |
0 |
29 |
57 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20 the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the amendment Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
A vote was taken on the motion without amendment:
NDM8376 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the Children's Commissioner for Wales's Annual Report 2022-23.
Children’s Commissioner for Wales’s Annual Report 2022-23
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
56 |
0 |
0 |
56 |
The motion without amendment was agreed.
9 Voting Time
The item started at 18.31
The meeting concluded at 18.35
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Wednesday, 18 October 2023