Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Meeting time: 13.30
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The Presiding Officer will call the Party Leaders to ask questions without notice to the First Minister after Question 2.
Andrew RT Davies (South Wales Central): Will the Minister make a statement on claims by the head of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in Wales that no A&E department in Wales had enough consultants to meet minimum RCEM staffing levels last year? EAQ(4)0676(HSS)
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NDM5918 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5:
Approves that the draft The Council Tax
Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme)
(Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 is made in accordance with the
draft laid in the Table Office on 1 December 2015.
Supporting Documents
The
Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default
Scheme) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016
Explanatory Memorandum
Report of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee
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NDM5919 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose the National Assembly for Wales:
Notes the Annual Report on Equality 2014-2015.
'Annual Report on Equality 2014-15'
The following amendments have been tabled:
Amendment 1 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
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Calls on the Welsh Government to ensure cuts to the Communities and Tackling Poverty budget do not adversely affect progress in creating more cohesive and inclusive communities in Wales.
Amendment 2 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
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Notes with concern the proposed cut of 68 per cent in core funding to Disability Wales.
Amendment 3 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
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Notes that just over three quarters of hate crimes reported to Welsh police forces in 2012-2013 were racially motivated.
Amendment 4 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
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Regrets that only 13 per cent of Gypsy/Roma children and 17 per cent of looked-after children achieved GCSEs at grades A*-C, in maths and either English or Welsh as a first language in 2014.
Amendment 5 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)
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Calls on the Minister to update the Assembly on her progress in improving gender dysphoria services in Wales, and calls for an independent feasibility study into establishing a gender identity clinic in Wales.
Amendment 6 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)
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Calls on the Welsh Government to move to 'name blank' recruitment wherever possible in the public sector so that people are judged on their true abilities to do a job.
The Assembly will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Wednesday, 20 January 2016