Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
Meeting time: 13.30
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This meeting will be held by video-conference.
Having consulted with the Business Committee, the Llywydd has determined that, in accordance with Standing Order 34.14A-D, Members would be able to vote from any location by electronic means.
The Llywydd will
also give notice, in accordance with Standing Order 34.15, that the
public are excluded from attending this Plenary meeting, as is
required to protect public health. The meeting will continue to be
broadcast live and the record of proceedings would be published as
usual.
1 Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services
(45 mins)
2 Questions to the Minister for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Welsh Language
(45 mins)
3 Topical Questions
(20 mins)
To ask the Minister for Economy, Transport and North Wales
Helen Mary Jones (Mid and West Wales): Will the Minister make a statement on the early closure of applications to the economic resilience fund relating to the firebreak lockdown?
4 90 Second Statements
(5 mins)
5 Motion to amend Standing Orders: Suspension of proceedings before remote electronic votes
(5 mins)
NDM7448 Elin Jones (Ceredigion)
To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 33.2:
1. Considers the report of the Business Committee, ‘Amending Standing Orders: Suspension of proceedings before remote electronic votes’, laid in the Table Office on 20 October 2020.
2. Approves the proposals to amend Standing Order 34.14D, as set out in Annex A of the Business Committee’s report.
6 Motion to elect a Member to a Committee
(5 mins)
NDM7453 Elin Jones (Ceredigion)
To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 17.3, elects Caroline Jones (Independent Alliance for Reform) as a member of the Business Committee.
7 Motion to elect a Member to a Committee
(5 mins)
NDM7454 Elin Jones (Ceredigion)
To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 17.3, elects Mark Reckless (Independent) as a member of the Finance Committee.
8 Motion to note the annual report on the Senedd Commission's Official Languages Scheme for 2019-20
(30 mins)
NDM7447 Elin Jones (Ceredigion)
To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with paragraph 8 (8) of Schedule 2 of the Government of Wales Act 2006:
Notes the Annual Report on the Senedd Commission’s Official Languages Scheme, laid before the Senedd on 18 June 2020.
9 Debate on petitions: teaching history in schools
(60 mins)
NDM7450 Janet Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the following petitions concerning the teaching of history in schools:
a) Petition ‘P-05-992 We call on the Welsh Government to create a common body of knowledge about Welsh history that all pupils will learn’ which received 7,927 signatures; and
b) Petition ‘P-05-1000 Make it compulsory for Black and POC UK histories to be taught in the Welsh education curriculum’ which received 34,736 signatures.
10 Voting Time
11 Short Debate
(30 mins)
NDM7449 David J. Rowlands (South Wales East)
The proportionality of the Welsh Government's lockdown.
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 10 November 2020