Decision details
Motion to agree the financial resolution in respect of the Education (Wales) Bill
Decision Maker: Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fourth Assembly, Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Plenary - Fourth Assembly, Finance Committee - Fourth Assembly
Is Key decision?: Yes
Purpose:
A Government Bill, introduced by Huw Lewis, Minister for Education and Skills. The Business Committee remitted the Bill to the Children, Young People and Education Committee.
About the Act
The Education (Wales) Bill seeks to legislate in the following areas:
- the
Education Workforce Council including the registration and regulation of
teachers and the wider workforce;
- school
term dates;
- the
appointment of HM Chief Inspector and HM Inspectors of education and
training in Wales under section 19 of the Education Act 2005.
On its introduction the Bill also
contained provisions relating to Special Educational Needs (SEN), as follows:
- reform
of the registration and approval of independent schools in respect of
special educational needs;
- post-16
assessment of educational and training needs and specialist Further
Education (FE).
These SEN provisions were removed
from the Bill during Stage 2 proceedings.
Current Stage
The Education (Wales) Act 2014 (external website) became law in Wales (external website) on 12 May 2014.
Record of Passage in
the National Assembly for Wales
The following table sets out the dates for each stage of the Bill’s passage through the National Assembly for Wales.
Stage |
Documents |
Bill introduced – 1 July 2013 |
Explanatory
Memorandum (PDF, 636KB) Presiding
Officer’s Statement: 1 July 2013 (PDF, 114KB) Business
Committee’s Report on the timetable for consideration of the Bill: 1 July
2013 (PDF, 47KB) Plenary
statement: Introduction of the Education (Wales) Bill: 2 July 2013 Research Service Bill
Summary (PDF, 390KB) Legislative
Glossary – Education (Wales) Bill (PDF, 135KB) |
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The Committee will consider the Bill on the
following dates: 6 November 2013 (private) 14 November 2013 (private) Committee
Stage 1 Report (PDF, 684KB) Constitutional
and Legislative Affairs Committee report (PDF, 508KB) |
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Notices of Amendments: Notice
of Amendments: 13 December 2013 (PDF, 73KB) Notice
of Amendments: 6 January 2014 (PDF, 50KB) Notice
of Amendments: 7 January 2014 (PDF, 79KB) Notice
of Amendments: 16 January 2014 (PDF, 120KB) Marshalled
List of Amendments: 23 January 2014 (PDF, 144) Grouping
of Amendments: 23 January 2014 (PDF, 62KB) Education
(Wales) Bill, as amended at Stage 2 (Amendments to the Bill since the
previous version are indicated by sidelining in the right margin) (PDF,
215KB) Research
Service Bill Summary 2 (PDF, 130KB) Revised
Explanatory Memorandum (PDF, 858KB) |
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Notices of Amendments: Notice
of Amendments: 30 January 2014 (PDF, 50KB) Notice
of Amendments: 12 February 2014 (PDF, 50KB) Notice
of Amendments: 28 February 2014 (PDF, 56KB) Notice
of Amendments: 3 March 2014 (PDF, 56KB) Notice
of Amendments: 4 March 2014 (PDF, 91KB) Marshalled
List of Amendments: 11 March 2014 (PDF, 101KB) Grouping
of Amendments: 11 March 2014 (PDF, 63KB) Education
(Wales) Bill, as amended at Stage 3
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The Bill was agreed by the Assembly in accordance
with SO 12.36 on 25
March 2014. Education
(Wales) Bill, as passed (Crown XML) |
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Contact information
Clerk: Marc Wyn Jones
Phone: 029 2089 8505
Second Clerk: Gareth Rogers
Postal address:
National Assembly for Wales
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1NA
Email: CYPcommittee@wales.gov.uk
Decision:
The item started at 16.37
Voting on the motion under this item was deferred until
Voting Time.
NDM5377 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, for
the purposes of any provisions resulting from the Education (Wales) Bill,
agrees to any increase in expenditure of a kind referred to in Standing Order
26.69, arising in consequence of the Bill.
The result was as follows:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
29 |
0 |
28 |
57 |
As required by Standing Order 6.20
the Deputy Presiding Officer exercised his casting vote by voting for the
motion to allow for further discussion of the Bill at Stages 2 and 3.
Publication date: 03/12/2013
Date of decision: 03/12/2013
Decided at meeting: 03/12/2013 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly