Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Meeting time: 13.00
(120 mins)
NDM6060 Elin Jones (Ceredigion)
The National
Assembly for Wales:
Notes the content of the UK Government's legislative programme
2016/2017.
UK
Government's legislative programme:
https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/queens-speech-2016
Supporting documents:
Research Briefing: The Queen’s Speech
Secretary of State’s Written Statement
Queen's Speech Bills Handout provided by the Wales Office, July 2016
The following amendments have been tabled:
Amendment 1 - Simon Thomas (Mid and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Regrets that the UK Government's proposed Wales Bill falls short of offering comparable powers as those available to, or on offer to Scotland.
Amendment 2 - Simon Thomas (Mid and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Notes the Research Briefing: 'Wales and the EU: What does the vote to leave the EU mean for Wales?' and believes that following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, provisions should be made to ensure that all legislation giving effect to EU Directives or Regulations pertaining to areas such as environmental protection, workers' rights, food safety and agriculture are retained in UK and Welsh law unless they are actively repealed by the relevant Parliament.
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call Party Spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Cabinet Secretary after Question 2.
(15 mins)
(60 mins)
NDM6058
Neil Hamilton (Mid
and West Wales)
Caroline Jones
(South Wales West)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Believes that following Brexit, Tata Steel in Port Talbot has a better chance of survival.
The following amendments have been tabled:
Amendment 1
-
Simon Thomas (Mid
and West Wales)
Delete all and replace with:
Notes the great importance of access to the Single Market for Tata UK.
If amendment 1 is agreed, amendments 2 and 3 will fall.
Amendment 2 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Delete all and replace with:
1. Recognises the crucial role of the steelworks in Port Talbot, Llanwern, Shotton and Trostre to the economy of Wales and the United Kingdom as a whole.
2. Recognises the work of both the UK and Welsh Governments towards helping TATA secure a credible buyer for the Port Talbot steelworks.
3. Encourages the UK and Welsh Governments to work together to devise a strategy to maximise the long-term viability and potential for steel production in Wales.
4. Encourages the UK and Welsh Governments to work together with other countries in Europe and across the world to secure trade agreements that are advantageous to the Welsh steel industry.
If amendment 2 is agreed, amendment 3 will fall.
Amendment 3 - Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
Delete all after 'following' and replace with:
'the EU Referendum result it is more important than ever that the UK Government works with the Welsh Government to secure a sustainable future for steel making in Wales.'
Amendment 4
-
Simon Thomas (Mid
and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Continues to press
the Welsh and UK Governments to find ways to support all of the
steel industry in Wales.
Amendment 5
-
Simon Thomas (Mid
and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls on the Welsh
Government to exploit existing EU funding to promote Plaid Cymru
proposals, specifically the European Fund for Strategic Investments
so the new renewable energy plant can be built on the TATA site in
Port Talbot to address the issue of high energy costs, and Horizon
2020, so that a steel research and development centre can be
established at Swansea University's Innovation Campus to increase
TATA UK's business opportunities.
Amendment 6
-
Simon Thomas (Mid
and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls on the Welsh
and UK Governments to provide additional funding to a Tata
successor if this is necessary as a result of the uncertainty
associated with the United Kingdom leaving the European
Union.
Amendment 7
-
Simon Thomas (Mid
and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Regrets UKIP's decision to vote against the European Commission's Modernisation proposals in the European Parliament – measures that would have led to far higher tariffs on Chinese steel being dumped on European markets.
(0 mins)
NDM6059
Bethan Jenkins
(South Wales West)
We need our unions more than ever
Looking at the work of unions in Wales in combatting austerity and encouraging greater membership and support of unions.
The Assembly will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 12 July 2016