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NDM7276 Brexit Party Debate - Devolution
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Meeting: 26/02/2020 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 8)
Brexit Party Debate - Devolution
NDM7276 Caroline
Jones (South Wales West)
To propose that the National Assembly for
Wales:
Regrets the failure of Welsh devolution to
date.
The following amendments have been tabled:
Amendment 1 - Neil
McEvoy (South Wales Central)
Delete all and replace with:
To propose that the National Assembly for
Wales:
1. Regrets that Welsh devolution has been
hindered to date by the failure to devolve further powers.
2. Calls for Welsh devolution to be
strengthened by:
a) the devolution of air passenger duty;
and
b) the full legislative devolution of the
justice system and the maintenance of independent Welsh institutions of
justice.
[If Amendment 1 is agreed amendments 2, 3
and 4 will be de-selected]
Amendment 2 - Rebecca
Evans (Gower)
Delete all and replace with:
To propose that the National Assembly for
Wales:
Welcomes the collective contributions that
have been made by political parties on all sides and by wider civic society to
making devolution the settled will of the Welsh people.
[If Amendment 2 is agreed amendments 3 and
4 will be de-selected]
Amendment 3 - Sian
Gwenllian (Arfon)
Delete all and replace with:
To propose that the National Assembly for
Wales:
1. Regrets the dismal record of the Labour Welsh
Government that has been in power continuously since the inception of
devolution.
2. Believes that successive Westminster UK
Governments – under both Labour and the Conservatives – have presided over
intergenerational poverty and underinvestment in Wales.
3. Believes that decisions about Wales’s
future should be made by those who live and work here.
4. Believes that having the economic and
fiscal levers of an independent country is the key to Wales’s future
prosperity.
5. Agrees that the power to call a future
referendum on independence should lie with the elected representatives of the
people of Wales free from any veto by Westminster.
[If Amendment 3 is agreed amendment 4 will
be de-selected]
Amendment 4 - Darren
Millar (Clwyd West)
Delete 'Welsh devolution' and replace with
'successive Welsh Governments'.
Amendment 5 - Neil
Hamilton (Mid and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Believes that the National Assembly for
Wales should be abolished.
Amendment 6 - Neil
Hamilton (Mid and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Believes that practical alternatives to
devolution, in the absence of a National Assembly for Wales, include
democratising the NHS and giving greater powers to parent-governors to
determine schools's education policy.
Minutes:
The
item started at 17.16
Voting
on the motion and amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
A
vote was taken on the motion without amendment:
NDM7276 Caroline Jones (South Wales
West)
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Regrets
the failure of Welsh devolution to date.
The
following amendments have been tabled:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
5 |
0 |
46 |
51 |
The motion without amendment was not
agreed.
The
following amendments were tabled:
Amendment
1 - Neil McEvoy (South Wales Central)
Delete
all and replace with:
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1.
Regrets that Welsh devolution has been hindered to date by the failure to
devolve further powers.
2.
Calls for Welsh devolution to be strengthened by:
a)
the devolution of air passenger duty; and
b)
the full legislative devolution of the justice system and the maintenance of
independent Welsh institutions of justice.
A
vote was taken on amendment 1:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
1 |
0 |
50 |
51 |
Amendment 1 was not agreed.
Amendment
2 - Rebecca Evans (Gower)
Delete
all and replace with:
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Welcomes
the collective contributions that have been made by political parties on all
sides and by wider civic society to making devolution the settled will of the
Welsh people.
A
vote was taken on amendment 2:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
27 |
0 |
24 |
51 |
Amendment 2 was agreed.
As
Amendment 2 was agreed amendments 3 and 4 were de-selected
Amendment
5 - Neil Hamilton (Mid and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Believes that the National Assembly for Wales should
be abolished.
A
vote was taken on amendment 5:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
2 |
0 |
46 |
48 |
Amendment 5 was not agreed.
Amendment
6 - Neil Hamilton (Mid and West Wales)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Believes that practical alternatives to devolution,
in the absence of a National Assembly for Wales, include democratising the NHS
and giving greater powers to parent-governors to determine schools's education
policy.
A
vote was taken on amendment 6:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
5 |
0 |
46 |
51 |
Amendment 6 was not agreed.
A
vote was taken on the motion as amended:
NDM7276 Caroline Jones (South Wales
West)
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Welcomes
the collective contributions that have been made by political parties on all
sides and by wider civic society to making devolution the settled will of the
Welsh people.
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
35 |
9 |
7 |
51 |
The motion as amended was agreed.