Meeting Venue:
Siambr Hywel - Tŷ Hywel
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Meeting time: 13.30
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This meeting will be held in a hybrid format, with some Members in Siambr Hywel and others joining by video-conference.
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Cabinet Secretary after Question 2.
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Cabinet Secretary after Question 2.
(20 mins)
To ask the Cabinet Secretary for
Transport and North Wales
Rhun Ap Iorwerth
(Ynys Môn): Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement
on the impact that the delay to phase 2 of the Menai suspension
bridge repair works will have on Ynys Môn?
To ask the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Rhys Ab Owen (South Wales Central): What measures are being discussed between the Welsh Government and Dŵr Cymru to enhance environmental protection while ensuring that water bills provide genuine value for money to consumers?
(5 mins)
(60 mins)
NDM8903 John
Griffiths (Newport East)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the report of the Local Government and Housing Committee,
‘Role, governance and accountability of the community and
town council sector’, which was laid in
the Table Office on 5 March 2025.
Note: The response of the Welsh Government to the report was
laid in
the Table Office on 14 May 2025.
(60 mins)
NDM8904 Delyth
Jewell (South Wales East)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the report of the Culture, Communications, Welsh Language,
Sport, and International Relations Committee ‘International
Relations Annual Report 2024’, which was laid in
the Table Office on 14 March 2025.
Note: The response of the Welsh Government to the report
was laid in
the Table Office on 14 May 2025.
(60 mins)
NDM8906 Heledd
Fychan (South Wales Central)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Notes the significant and long-standing pensions injustices as a
result of the inaction of successive UK Governments.
2. Recognises the work of campaign groups such as 1950’s
women, former workers at Allied Steel and Wire, and members of the
British Coal staff superannuation scheme.
3. Regrets the failure of the Labour UK Government:
a) to act on a previous Labour party
commitment to compensate 1950s-born women in Wales affected by
state pension changes;
b) to inflation-proof the pensions of former Allied Steel and Wire
workers; and
c) to treat members of the British Coal staff superannuation scheme
and miners’ pension scheme equally.
4. Regrets the failure of the Welsh Labour Government to make the
case for action on these issues, despite their partnership in
power, and calls on them to make representations to the UK
Government to:
a) implement the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's
recommendations for 1950s Women;
b) uprate the pensions of former Allied Steel and Wire Workers in
line with inflation; and
c) extend the Miners Pensions Scheme to include members of the
British Coal staff superannuation scheme.
The following amendment was tabled:
Amendment 1 Jane
Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
Delete points
3 and 4 and replace with:
Welcomes the recent reforms made by the UK Government to the
Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme, including the return of the
investment reserve fund and the resulting increase in pension
payments to former mineworkers.
Notes that the Welsh Government has consistently raised concerns
about pension injustices with successive UK Governments, and
continues to advocate on behalf of:
a) Allied Steel and Wire pensioners;
b) women born in the 1950s affected by changes to the state pension
age; and
c) members of the British Coal staff superannuation scheme.
(30 mins)
NDM8905 Mick
Antoniw (Pontypridd)
Wales and Europe: dismantling the barriers
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 3 June 2025