Decision details
Motion to approve the Financial Resolution of the Active Travel (Wales) Bill
Decision Maker: Enterprise and Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Purpose:
A
Government Bill, introduced by Carl Sargeant, Minister for Local Government and
Communities. Following a change in ministerial portfolios in March 2013, the
First Minister authorised John Griffiths AM, Minister for Culture and Sport, as
the new Member in Charge of the Bill, from 18 March 2013. The Business Committee
remitted the Bill to the Enterprise
and Business Committee.
About the
Bill
The Active
Travel (Wales) Bill places a requirement on local authorities to continuously
improve facilities and routes for walkers and cyclists and to prepare maps
identifying current and potential future routes for their use. The Bill
will also require new road schemes to consider the needs of pedestrians and
cyclists at design stage.
Current Stage
The Active
Travel (Wales) Act 2013 (external website) became law in Wales (external
website) on 4 November 2013.
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 – 18
February 2013 |
Written
Statement by the Minister for Local Government and Communities: 18 February
2013 |
|
Survey responses: Children and Young
People 22 May 2013 (private) |
|
|
Financial Resolution |
|
|
Concise Minutes: 4
July 2013. Notice
of Amendments: 25 June 2013 Notice
of Amendments: 27 June 2013 Marshalled
List of Amendments: 4 July 2013 Groupings
of Amendments List: 4 July 2013 Active
Travel (Wales) Bill, as amended at Stage 2 (amendments to the Bill since
the previous version are indicated by sidelining in the right margin). Explanatory
Memorandum, revised after Stage 2 Research
Service Bill Summary 2
|
|
Notice
of Amendments: 20 September 2013 Notice
of Amendments: 24 September 2013 |
|
Active
Travel (Wales) Bill, as passed (Crown XML) |
|
|
Contact information
Clerk: Sarah Beasley
Phone: 029 2089 8032
Postal address:
National Assembly for Wales
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
CF99 1NA
Decision:
The item started
at 17.46
NDM5252 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
To propose
that the National Assembly for Wales, for the purposes of any provisions
resulting from the Active Travel (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 motion was agreed in accordance with
Standing Order 12.36.
Publication date: 04/06/2013
Date of decision: 04/06/2013
Decided at meeting: 04/06/2013 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly