Decision details
Debate: The Impact of the UK Government's Welfare Reforms in Wales
Decision Maker: Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Decision:
The item started at 17.22
Voting
on the motion and amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NDM5631
Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes:
a) the impact of Welfare Reform in Wales and its
implications; and
b) the latest published plans for the implementation
of Universal Credit.
The following amendments
were tabled:
Amendment 1 - Paul
Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Delete
point a) and replace with:
that
welfare reforms implemented by the UK Government have been taken to address
inequality in the benefits system and to ensure that no one can earn more on
benefits than the average family does by going out to work; and
A
vote was taken on Amendment 1:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
16 |
0 |
37 |
53 |
Amendment
1 was not agreed.
Amendment 2 - Paul
Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Add
new point at end of motion:
Notes
that the aim of universal credit is to reduce poverty, by making work pay, and
to help claimants and their families to become more independent.
A
vote was taken on Amendment 2:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
16 |
0 |
37 |
53 |
Amendment
2 was not agreed.
Amendment
3 - Elin Jones (Ceredigion)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls for the repeal of the bedroom tax.
A
vote was taken on Amendment 3:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
42 |
0 |
11 |
53 |
Amendment
3 was agreed.
Amendment
4 - Elin Jones (Ceredigion)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Resolves that job-creation measures are more
effective than punitive welfare reforms as a means to create thriving
communities.
A
vote was taken on Amendment 4:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
42 |
11 |
0 |
53 |
Amendment
4 was agreed.
Amendment
5 - Elin Jones (Ceredigion)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Believes that a freeze on child benefit would be
detrimental to the goal of eradicating child poverty.
A
vote was taken on Amendment 5:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
15 |
11 |
27 |
53 |
Amendment
5 was not agreed.
A
vote was taken on the motion as amended:
NDM5631
Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes:
a) the impact of Welfare Reform in Wales and its
implications; and
b) the latest published plans for the implementation
of Universal Credit.
2. Calls for the repeal of the bedroom tax.
3. Resolves that job-creation measures are more
effective than punitive welfare reforms as a means to create thriving
communities.
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
42 |
0 |
11 |
53 |
The
motion as amended was agreed.
Publication date: 25/11/2014
Date of decision: 25/11/2014
Decided at meeting: 25/11/2014 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly