Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 5 December 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.
(20 mins)
To ask the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Suzy Davies (South Wales West): With a recent Estyn report stating that secondary schools in Wales could do better, with only half currently judged as good or excellent, what work will the Welsh Government undertake to ensure that standards are raised across all secondary schools in Wales?
(5 mins)
(15 mins)
NDM6890 Jayne Bryant (Newport West)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Considers the Report of the Standards of Conduct Committee - Report 03-18 laid before the Assembly on 23 November 2018 in accordance with Standing Order 22.9
2. Endorses the recommendation in the report.
(60 mins)
NDM6892 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Regrets that since December 2009:
a) referral-to-treatment waiting times in the Welsh NHS have increased;
b) performance against both the 4 and 12 hour targets in Welsh emergency departments has deteriorated;
c) cancer treatment targets have never been met in Wales;
d) the number of beds in Welsh hospitals has fallen;
e) GCSE performance has deteriorated in Wales with attainment of A*-C grades for summer 2018 the worst since 2005;
f) Wales’s OECD PISA scores are worse in reading, maths and science with the most recent results being worse than in 2009, placing Wales in the bottom half of the OECD global ranking and at the bottom of the UK rankings;
g) scores of Welsh schools have permanently closed;
h) gross disposable household income as a percentage of the UK average has fallen;
i) Wales has had the poorest average wages growth rate of the UK nations;
j) business rates in Wales have become less competitive than other parts of the UK; and
k) the annual number of new homes being built in Wales has fallen.
2. Calls upon the Welsh Government to acknowledge its failures, abandon its failing policies, and to deliver the positive change that Wales needs.
The following amendment was tabled:
Amendment 1 - Julie James (Swansea West)
Delete all after Wales and replace with:
1. Recognises:
a) Almost nine out of 10 people are treated within the target time of 26 weeks
b) Investment in the Welsh NHS is at record levels
c) More people are surviving cancer than ever in Wales and receiving treatment within the target time
d) The proportion of pupils awarded the top GCSE grades at A* to A increased to 18.5% in 2018
e) 8.7% of pupils were awarded A* at A-level in 2018 – the best results in Wales since the grade was introduced in 2010
f) Gross disposable household income in 2016 was £15,835 per person, equivalent to 81.5% of the UK GDHI, up from 2015
g) Gross weekly earnings in 2018 for full-time employees working in Wales have increased by 2.1% since 2017
h) 1.5m people were employed in Wales in the three months to September 2018, up 4.2% on the same period a year earlier – the largest increase of any UK country or region
i) Three-quarters of small business in Wales receive help with rates bills and half pay no non-domestics rates at all
j) 20,000 new affordable homes will be built with Welsh Government funding this Assembly term.
2. Thanks the First Minister for his leadership and his work during his nine years in office.
(30 mins)
NDM6891 David Melding (South Wales Central)
The Neolithic in the Story of Wales: Valuing the achievements of prehistory.
Raising awareness of the importance of prehistory in the cultural life of Wales.
(120 mins)
In accordance with Standing Order 26.36, amendments will be disposed of in the order which the sections and schedules to which they relate arise in the Bill.
The amendments have been grouped for the purposes of debate and the groupings will be debated as follows:
1. Duty to provide funded childcare
4*, 4A*, 4B*, 20
2. Parental eligibility
6, 11, 8, 9, 17, 19, 10, 22, 5
3. Welsh language childcare provision
7
4. Transportation between providers
12
5. Additional charges and rates of payment
13, 21, 32, 33
6. Qualifying children
14, 15, 16, 18
7. Regulations to be made by Welsh Ministers
1, 3
8. Statutory instruments: changes to procedures
23
9. Categories of providers of funded childcare
24, 25
10. Administrative arrangements for the provision of funded childcare
26, 27, 28
11. Reviews of determinations and appeals to the First-tier Tribunal
29
12. Review and reports on the effect of the Act and sunset provision
30, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2, 35
13. Duty to promote awareness
31
14. Workforce planning
34
15. Commencement
36
Supporting Documents
Childcare Funding (Wales) Bill
Explanatory Memorandum
Marshalled list of amendments
Groupings of Amendments
The Assembly will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 11 December 2018