Decision details
Debate: Future of Devolution for Wales
Decision Maker: Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Decision:
The item started at 16.15
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Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Elin Jones (Ceredigion)
Aled Roberts (North Wales)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Welcomes the Prime Minister’s commitment that
Wales will be at the heart of the debate on the future of the United Kingdom.
2. Calls for bilateral talks that are informed by
the Holtham and Silk 1 Commissions’ findings, including an updated assessment
of the current level and likely future direction of Welsh relative funding.
3. Calls for those talks, which should begin
immediately and be completed by January 2015, to have a particular focus on
fair funding, with the goal of securing rapid implementation of a funding floor
which both addresses underfunding in a way that is consistent with Welsh needs
and halts future convergence.
4. Calls for the UK Government to:
a) ensure that the same powers are given to Wales
regarding the devolution of Corporation Tax
if they are provided to Northern
Ireland and Scotland;
b) devolve Air Passenger Duty for direct long-haul
flights;
c) review
the level of the borrowing powers afforded to Wales in the Wales Bill;
and
d) work with the Welsh Government to enable it to
issue its own bonds.
5. Seeks recognition that if a decision is taken to hold a Referendum on tax
varying powers, this should reflect the view of the people of Wales.
6. Seeks confirmation that the Reserved Powers
model will be instituted for Wales.
7. Calls on the UK Government to give the National
Assembly for Wales the power to determine its electoral arrangements.
8. Calls on the UK Government to make progress on
Silk 2.
9. Affirms that these matters should be taken
forward in legislative proposals, published before the end of the current
Westminster parliamentary session.
The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
Publication date: 21/10/2014
Date of decision: 21/10/2014
Decided at meeting: 21/10/2014 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly