Decision details
Debate on the Annual Report on Equality 2014 - 2015
Decision Maker: Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Decision:
The item started at 17.59
NDM5919 Jane Hutt
(Vale of Glamorgan)
To propose the National Assembly for Wales:
Notes the Annual Report on Equality 2014-2015.
The following amendments were tabled:
Amendment 1 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Add as new point at
end of motion:
Calls on the Welsh
Government to ensure cuts to the Communities and Tackling Poverty budget do not
adversely affect progress in creating more cohesive and inclusive communities
in Wales.
Amendment 1 was
agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
Voting on the
motion and remaining amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
Amendment 2 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Add as new point at
end of motion:
Notes with concern
the proposed cut of 68 per cent in core funding to Disability Wales.
A vote was taken on
Amendment 2:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
25 |
0 |
26 |
51 |
As required by Standing
Order 6.20 the Deputy Presiding Officer exercised his casting vote by voting
against the amendment. Therefore, the amendment was not agreed.
Amendment 3 - Paul
Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Notes that just over three quarters of hate crimes reported to Welsh
police forces in 2012-2013 were racially motivated.
A vote was taken on
Amendment 3:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
49 |
0 |
0 |
49 |
Amendment 3 was agreed.
Amendment 4 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Add as new point at
end of motion:
Regrets that only
13 per cent of Gypsy/Roma children and 17 per cent of looked-after children
achieved GCSEs at grades A*-C, in maths and either English or Welsh as a first
language in 2014.
A vote was taken on
Amendment 4:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
50 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
Amendment 4 was agreed.
Amendment 5 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)
Add as new point at
end of motion:
Calls on the
Minister to update the Assembly on her progress in improving gender dysphoria services
in Wales, and calls for an independent feasibility study into establishing a
gender identity clinic in Wales.
A vote was taken on
Amendment 5:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
50 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
Amendment 5 was agreed.
Amendment 6 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)
Add as new point at
end of motion:
Calls on the Welsh
Government to move to 'name blank' recruitment wherever possible in the public
sector so that people are judged on their true abilities to do a job.
A vote was taken on
Amendment 6:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
50 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
Amendment 6 was agreed.
A vote was taken on the motion as amended:
NDM5919 Jane Hutt (Vale of
Glamorgan)
To propose the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the Annual Report on Equality 2014-2015.
2. Calls on the Welsh
Government to ensure cuts to the Communities and Tackling Poverty budget do not
adversely affect progress in creating more cohesive and inclusive communities
in Wales.
3. Notes that just over three quarters of hate crimes reported to Welsh
police forces in 2012-2013 were racially motivated.
4. Regrets that
only 13 per cent of Gypsy/Roma children and 17 per cent of looked-after
children achieved GCSEs at grades A*-C, in maths and either English or Welsh as
a first language in 2014.
5. Calls on the
Minister to update the Assembly on her progress in improving gender dysphoria
services in Wales, and calls for an independent feasibility study into
establishing a gender identity clinic in Wales.
6. Calls on the Welsh
Government to move to 'name blank' recruitment wherever possible in the public
sector so that people are judged on their true abilities to do a job.
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
50 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
The motion as amended was agreed.
Publication date: 19/01/2016
Date of decision: 19/01/2016
Decided at meeting: 19/01/2016 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly