Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Meeting time: 13.30
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(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.
(45 mins)
Leanne Wood: UK air strikes in Syria
(20 mins)
(20 mins)
To ask the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport:
Neil McEvoy (South Wales Central): Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the Welsh Government's role in the proposed renaming of the second Severn crossing to the Prince of Wales bridge?
(5 mins)
(60 mins)
NDM6704 David Rees (Aberavon)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Notes the report of the External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee on 'How is the Welsh Government preparing for Brexit?', which was laid in the Table Office on 5 February 2018.
Note: The response by the Welsh Government was laid on 12 April 2018.
(30 mins)
NDM6702 Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the letter from the Permanent Secretary, dated 16 March, in relation to motion NDM6668, which was agreed by the National Assembly for Wales on 28 February 2018.
2. Regrets the failure of the Permanent Secretary to comply with the wishes of Assembly Members.
3. Acting in accordance with Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006, requires the Welsh Government’s Permanent Secretary to produce for the purposes of the Assembly, with appropriate redactions to ensure anonymity of witnesses, the report into the investigation on “whether there is any evidence of a prior unauthorised sharing of information – i.e. a “leak” – by the Welsh Government of information relating to the recent Ministerial reshuffle".
ITV Wales – Leak inquiry clears First Minister – 25 January 2018
Letter from the Permanent Secretary to all Assembly Members – 16 March 2018
The following amendment has been tabled:
Amendment 1. Julie James (Swansea West)
Delete all after point 1.
(30 mins)
NDM6703 Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the growing teacher recruitment crisis in maintained schools in Wales.
2. Regrets that there has been insufficient Welsh Government action to address the causes of this to date.
3. Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the Education Workforce Council to develop a national school workforce plan for Wales, in order to:
a) remove unnecessary barriers to the recruitment of overseas trained teachers;
b) recognise the skills of experienced and successful teachers working in further education colleges, and in independent schools and colleges by providing them with qualified teacher status; and
c) establish routes into teaching for experienced teaching support assistants in Wales.
The following amendments have been tabled:
Amendment 1. Julie James (Swansea West)
Delete all and replace with:
1. Notes the ongoing work of Welsh Government to develop a high-quality education profession and attract the best and brightest to teach in Wales, including:
a) reformed and strengthened Initial Teacher Education;
b) targeted incentives for high quality graduates in priority subjects and Welsh-medium education;
c) an ongoing highly targeted digital recruitment campaign;
d) establishing the National Academy for Educational Leadership; and
e) establishing the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Advisory Board.
[If amendment 1 is agreed, amendment 2 will be de-selected]
Amendment 2. Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Add as new point after point 1:
Notes the National Education Union Cymru figures that show that over 50,000 working days a year are lost by teachers due to stress-related illness and that 33.6 per cent of school teachers that responded to the Education Workforce Council national education workforce survey intend to leave their profession in the next three years.
The Education Workforce Council National Education Workforce Survey
(60 mins)
NDM6697 Neil Hamilton (Mid and West Wales)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes and welcomes the campaign of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) group to achieve fair transitional state pension arrangements for all women born in the 1950s affected by changes to state pension laws.
2. Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the UK Government to provide the following to all women born in the 1950s affected by changes to state pension laws:
a) a bridging pension that supplies an income until state pension age, which is not means-tested;
b) compensation for the absence of a bridging pension to those who have already reached their state pension age;
c) compensation to all those who have not started to receive a bridging pension by an appropriate date, which would be sufficient to recover lost monetary interest; and
d) compensation to the beneficiaries of the estates of those who are deceased and failed to receive a bridging pension.
The following amendments have been tabled:
Amendment 1. Julie James (Swansea West)
Add as new point 1 and renumber accordingly:
Regrets UK Government inaction to end the injustice suffered by women affected by the changes to state pension laws.
Amendment 2 Julie James (Swansea West)
In point 2, delete “work with” and replace with “urge”.
(60 mins)
Leanne Wood: UK air strikes in Syria
(30 mins)
NDM6701 Angela Burns (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire)
Sepsis – The Chameleon
What is sepsis, how do we recognise it, how do we treat it, and what can we do to save more lives?
The Assembly will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 24 April 2018