Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Meeting time: 13.30
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(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice after Question 2.
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice after Question 2.
No Topical Questions were received
(5 mins)
(0 mins)
NDM7209 David Melding (South Wales Central)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales in accordance with Standing Order 27.2:
Agrees that The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Specified Information) (Wales) Regulations 2019, laid before the Assembly on 15 November 2019, be annulled.
(60 mins)
NDM7215 Helen Mary Jones (Mid and West Wales)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the Royal College of Nursing Wales's report, Progress and Challenge: the Implementation of the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016.
2. Notes more nurses leave the NHS than join.
3. Calls on Welsh Government to set out how the Welsh NHS will increase the opportunities for flexible working as part of a national nursing retention strategy.
Progress and Challenge: the Implementation of the Nurse Staffing
Levels (Wales) Act 2016
Co-Submitters
Dai Lloyd (South Wales
West)
David
Rees (Aberavon)
Supporter
Delyth
Jewell (South Wales East)
(60 mins)
NDM7219 Russell George (Montgomeryshire)
The National Assembly for Wales:
Notes the report of the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee on its Inquiry into: Access to Banking which was laid in the Table Office on 17 October 2019.
Note: The response by the Welsh Government was laid on 4 December 2019.
(60 mins)
NDM7218 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s 2018 PISA results.
2. Regrets that:
a) there has been no statistically significant improvement in Wales’s PISA scores in reading and maths since 2006;
b) Wales’s science scores are significantly worse than in 2006;
c) Wales is ranked bottom of the UK nations in reading, maths and science;
d) Wales is the only UK nation to score below the OECD average in all PISA measures.
3. Calls upon the Welsh Government to:
a) acknowledge its failure to improve education in Wales;
b) apologise to pupils, parents and schools for letting them down;
c) guarantee that additional resources arising from increased spending on schools by the UK Government will be invested on schools in Wales.
The following amendments have been tabled:
Amendment 1 - Rebecca Evans (Gower)
Delete all after point 1 and replace with:
Notes that Wales is the only UK nation to improve in each domain.
Welcomes:
a) Wales’s best ever scores in reading and maths, and improvement in science;
b) a reduction in the gap between our most disadvantaged learners and their peers;
c) the improvement in performance of high performing students.
Believes the improvement in PISA scores is testament to the hard work of teachers and pupils across Wales.
[If Amendment 1 is agreed amendment 2 will be de-selected]
Amendment 2 - Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn)
Delete point 3 and replace with:
Calls on the Welsh Government to:
a) continue along the path of revising the new curriculum and allowing it to take root as part of efforts to raise standards;
b) guarantee that the necessary resources are available to schools in order to improve working conditions for teachers and attract more new teachers to the profession.
(30 mins)
NDM7220 Vikki Howells (Cynon Valley)
Meeting the care challenges of the twenty first century.
The Assembly will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 7 January 2020