Decision details
Debate on the Financial Resolution of the Public Health (Wales) Bill
Decision Maker: Finance Committee - Fourth Assembly, Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee - Fourth Assembly, Health and Social Care Committee - Fourth Assembly, Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Is Key decision?: Yes
Purpose:
A Welsh Government Bill, introduced by Mark Drakeford AM, Minister for Health and Social Services. The Business Committee has remitted the Bill to the Health and Social Care Committee.
Purpose
of the Bill
The
Bill sets out a series of proposals in priority areas of public health policy.
The
Bill includes provision for the following:
Tobacco
and nicotine products
- Restricting the use of nicotine
inhaling devices such as electronic cigarettes in enclosed and
substantially enclosed public and work places, bringing the use of these
devices into line with existing provisions on smoking;
- Creating a national register of
retailers of tobacco and nicotine products;
- Adding to the offences which
contribute to a Restricted Premises Order (RPO). (An RPO prohibits the
sale of tobacco products from a premises);
- Prohibiting the handing over of tobacco or nicotine products to people under the age of 18.
Special
procedures
- Creating a mandatory licensing
scheme for practitioners and businesses carrying out ’special procedures’,
namely acupuncture, body piercing, electrolysis and tattooing;
- Introducing a ban on the intimate piercing of people under 16 years old.
Pharmaceutical
services
- Changing the
way Health Boards make decisions about pharmaceutical services by making
sure these are based on assessments of pharmaceutical need in their areas.
Provision
of toilets
- Requiring local authorities to prepare
local toilets strategies for the provision
of, and access to, toilets for public use, based on the needs of their
communities.
Further detail about the
Bill can be found in its accompanying Explanatory
Memorandum (PDF, 3MB).
Current
Stage
Stage
4 proceedings took place on 16 March 2016. The motion to approve the Bill was
not agreed by the Assembly. This Bill was therefore rejected and will not
become an Act.
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 |
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Bill introduced: 8 June 2015 |
Public
Health (Wales) Bill, as introduced (PDF, 316KB) Explanatory
Memorandum (PDF, 3MB) Presiding
Officer’s Statement: 8 June 2015 (PDF, 159KB) Business
Committee’s Report on the timetable for consideration of the Bill: June 2015
(PDF, 64KB) Plenary
statement: Introduction of the Public Health (Wales) Bill: 9 June 2015 Statement
of Policy Intent - 11 June 2015 (PDF, 1MB) Legislative
glossary (Welsh language version only) (PDF 209KB) Correspondence
from the Presiding Officer regarding the legislative competence of the Public
Health (Wales) Bill: 23 June 2015 (PDF, 363 KB) Research
Service Bill Summary (PDF, 344KB) |
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Stage 1: Committee considerations of general
principles |
The
Health and Social Care Committee issued a call for evidence, which closed on
4 September 2015. Survey The
Health and Social Care Committee issued a public survey, which closed on 4
September 2015. A summary
report (PDF, 416KB) of the results is available. The
Health and Social Care Committee gathered the views of those working in the
industry in relation to the provisions in Part 3 (Special procedures). Background
information about participants (PDF, 455KB) is available. Committee dates The Health and Social Care Committee will
consider the Bill on the following dates:
The
Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee considered the Bill on
the following date:
The
Finance Committee considered the Bill on the following date:
Committee
reports and Welsh Government responses Health
and Social Care Committee Stage 1 report (PDF, 1MB) Constitutional
and Legislative Affairs Committee Stage 1 report (PDF, 476KB) Finance Committee Stage 1 report (PDF, 504KB) Letter from the Minister of Health and Social Services to the Finance Committee – 8 December 2015 (PDF, 138KB) Response by the Minister for Health and Social Services to the Finance Committee’s Stage 1 report – 26 January 2016 (PDF, 226KB) |
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Stage 1: Debate in Plenary on general principles |
A debate took place in Plenary on 8 December 2015. The motion to agree the general
principles of the Bill was agreed. |
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Financial Resolution |
A Financial Resolution was agreed in Plenary on 8
December 2015. |
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Stage 2: Committee consideration of amendments |
The
Health and Social Care Committee agreed on 14 January 2016, under
Standing Order 26.21, that the order of consideration for Stage 2 proceedings
will be: Sections 2 to 39; Schedule 1; Schedule 2; Sections 40 to 44;
Sections 46 to 77; Schedule 3; Section 45; Sections 78 to 95; Schedule 4;
Sections 96 to 102; Section 1; Long title. Stage 2 consideration took place in Committee on Thursday 28 January and Wednesday 3 February 2016. Public
Health (Wales) Bill (as amended at Stage 2) (PDF, 433KB) (Amendments to the Bill since
the previous version are indicated by sidelining in the right margin.) Explanatory
Memorandum revised after Stage 2 (PDF, 2MB) Public
Health (Wales) Bill – Summary of changes at Stage 2 Printing Changes to the Bill as amended at Stage 2 (PDF, 260KB) Marshalled
list of amendments: 3 February 2016 (PDF, 145KB) Groupings
of amendments: 3 February 2016 (PDF, KB) Marshalled
list of amendments: 28 January 2016 (PDF, 411KB) Groupings
of amendments: 28 January 2016 (PDF, 77KB) Notices
of amendments Notice
of Amendments: 9 December 2015 v4 (PDF, 151KB) Welsh Government - Purpose and Effect table: 9 December 2015 (PDF, 265 KB) Notice
of Amendments: 14 December 2015 v3 (PDF, 67KB) Notice
of Amendments: 15 December 2015 v3 (PDF, 83KB) Notice
of Amendments: 4
January 2016
(PDF, 67KB) Notice
of Amendments: 8
January 2016
(PDF, 84KB) Notice
of Amendments: 11 January 2016 (PDF, 59KB) Notice
of Amendments: 12 January 2016 v2 (PDF, 75KB) Notice
of Amendments: 18 January 2016 (PDF, 69KB) Notice
of Amendments: 19 January 2016 v2 (PDF, 246 KB) Welsh
Government - Purpose and Effect table: 19 January 2016 (PDF, 813KB) Notice
of Amendments: 20 January 2016 v2 (PDF, 76KB) Notice
of Amendments: 21 January 2016 (PDF, 58KB) Combined
Notice of Amendments (PDF, 392KB) |
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Stage 3: Plenary consideration of amendments |
Following
the completion of Stage 2 proceedings, Stage 3 commenced on 4 February 2016. The
National Assembly for Wales agreed on 23 February 2016,
under Standing Order 26.36, that the order of consideration for Stage 3
proceedings will be: Sections 2 – 31; Schedules 1 and 3; Sections 32 – 52;
Schedule 2; Sections 53 – 57; Sections 59 – 96; Schedule 4; Section 58;
Sections 97 – 117; Schedule 5; Sections 118 – 126; Section 1; Long title. Stage
3 proceedings took place on Tuesday 8 March
2016. All sections
and Schedules of the Bill were deemed agreed. Public
Health (Wales) Bill (as amended at Stage 3) (PDF, 951KB) (Amendments to
the Bill since the previous version are indicated by sidelining in the right
margin.) Printing Changes to the Bill as amended at Stage 3 (PDF, 49KB) Amendments to be considered
at Stage 3 Marshalled
list of amendments – 8 March 2016 v2 (PDF, 237KB) Groupings
of amendments – 8 March 2016 (PDF, 70KB) Notices
of amendments Notice
of Amendments: 17 February 2016 v2 (PDF, 72KB) Notice
of Amendments: 24 February 2016 (PDF, 83KB) Notice of Amendments: 25 February 2016 v2 (PDF, 83KB) Notice of Amendments: 26 February 2016 v3 (PDF,
191KB) Welsh Government – Purpose and Effect Table: 26 February 2016 v2 (PDF, 342KB) Notice of Amendments: 29 February 2016 (PDF, 64KB) Combined
Notice of Amendments (PDF, 235KB) |
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Stage 4: Passing of the Bill in Plenary |
Stage
4 took place on 16
March 2016. As
the vote on the Motion to approve the Public Health (Wales) Bill was tied,
the Presiding Officer used her casting vote in the negative (in accordance
with SO 6.20(ii)). Therefore the Motion was not agreed, and the Bill was
rejected by the Assembly. |
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Contact
information
Clerk:
Catherine Hunt
Phone:
0300 200 6565
Postal
address:
National
Assembly for Wales
Cardiff
Bay
Cardiff CF99 1NA
Email: SeneddHealth@Assembly.Wales
Decision:
The item started at 17.15
Voting on the motion was deferred until
Voting Time.
NDM5900 Jane Hutt (Vale of
Glamorgan)
To propose that the
National Assembly for Wales, for the purposes of any provisions resulting from
the Public Health (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 |
24 |
1 |
21 |
46 |
The motion was agreed.
Publication date: 09/12/2015
Date of decision: 08/12/2015
Decided at meeting: 08/12/2015 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly