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NDM7372 Brexit Party Debate - UK Internal Market Bill
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Meeting: 16/09/2020 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 10)
Brexit Party Debate - UK Internal Market Bill
NDM7372 Mark
Reckless (South Wales East)
To propose that the Senedd:
Welcomes the United Kingdom Internal Market
Bill.
United
Kingdom Internal Market Bill
The following amendments have been tabled:
Amendment 1 Neil Hamilton (Mid and West Wales)
Delete
all and replace with:
Welcomes
some parts of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill which rightly repatriate
important powers from the EU to the UK.
[If
amendment 1 is agreed, amendments 2 and 3 will be de-selected]
Amendment
2 Rebecca Evans (Gower)
Delete
all and replace with:
To
propose that the Senedd:
Believes
that the UK Government’s Internal Market Bill represents a comprehensive
assault on the devolution settlement which, if enacted, would severely
undermine the powers of the Senedd to protect and promote the interests of the
people of Wales.
[If
amendment 2 is agreed, amendments 3 will be de-selected]
Amendment
3 Sian Gwenllian (Arfon)
Delete
all and replace with:
To
propose that the Senedd agrees that the UK Government’s Internal Market Bill is
a direct assault on Welsh nationhood and democracy.
Amendment
4 Neil Hamilton (Mid and
West Wales)
Add
as new point to the end of the motion:
Regrets
those parts of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill which propose further
devolution of powers to the Senedd and Welsh Government as, on the evidence of
the last 20 years, the Welsh Government is likely to use them to increase
regulation, restrict freedoms and undermine the competitiveness of the Welsh
economy.
Amendment 5 Neil Hamilton Mid and West Wales)
Add
as new point at the end of the motion:
Believes that, as part of a wider plan to remedy the unsatisfactory results of devolution by, in particular, democratising the NHS and creating more local autonomy in education, and while retaining the elements of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill which assist in rightly repatriating powers from the EU to the UK, the Senedd should be scrapped.
Amendment
6 Gareth Bennett (South
Wales Central)
Add
as new point at end of motion:
Believes
that the powers repatriated by the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill should
not be devolved to Wales given the failure that the Welsh Government and Senedd
have shown with the current devolved powers that they have.
Amendment
7 Gareth Bennett (South
Wales Central)
Add
as new point at end of motion:
Calls
for a binding referendum on whether to keep or abolish the devolved government
and parliament of Wales, in light of the proposed aims of the United Kingdom
Internal Market Bill.
Amendment
8 Sian Gwenllian (Arfon)
Add
as new point at end of motion:
Calls
on the Welsh Government to explore independence in order to protect Welsh
democracy in light of the UK Government’s Internal Market Bill.
Minutes:
The
item started at 18.12
Voting
on the motion and amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
A
vote was taken on the motion without amendment:
NDM7372 Mark Reckless (South
Wales East)
To propose that the Senedd:
Welcomes the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill.
United Kingdom Internal
Market Bill
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
12 |
2 |
40 |
54 |
The motion without amendment was not
agreed.
The
following amendments were tabled:
Amendment 1 Neil Hamilton (Mid and West
Wales)
Delete all and replace with:
Welcomes some parts of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill which
rightly repatriate important powers from the EU to the UK.
A
vote was taken on amendment 1:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
2 |
0 |
52 |
54 |
Amendment 1 was not agreed.
Amendment 2 Rebecca Evans (Gower)
Delete all and replace with:
To propose that the Senedd:
Believes that the UK Government’s Internal Market Bill represents a
comprehensive assault on the devolution settlement which, if enacted, would
severely undermine the powers of the Senedd to protect and promote the
interests of the people of Wales.
A
vote was taken on amendment 2:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
30 |
2 |
22 |
54 |
Amendment 2 was agreed.
As amendment 2 was agreed, amendment 3 was
de-selected
Amendment 4 Neil Hamilton (Mid and
West Wales)
Add as new point to the end of the motion:
Regrets those parts of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill which
propose further devolution of powers to the Senedd and Welsh Government as, on
the evidence of the last 20 years, the Welsh Government is likely to use them
to increase regulation, restrict freedoms and undermine the competitiveness of
the Welsh economy.
A
vote was taken on amendment 4:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
2 |
2 |
50 |
54 |
Amendment 4 was not agreed.
Amendment 5 Neil Hamilton Mid and West Wales)
Add as new point at the end of the motion:
Believes that, as part of a wider plan to remedy the unsatisfactory
results of devolution by, in particular, democratising the NHS and creating
more local autonomy in education, and while retaining the elements of the
United Kingdom Internal Market Bill which assist in rightly repatriating powers
from the EU to the UK, the Senedd should be scrapped.
A
vote was taken on amendment 5:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
2 |
2 |
50 |
54 |
Amendment 5 was not agreed.
Amendment 6 Gareth Bennett (South
Wales Central)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Believes that the powers repatriated by the United Kingdom Internal
Market Bill should not be devolved to Wales given the failure that the Welsh
Government and Senedd have shown with the current devolved powers that they
have.
A
vote was taken on amendment 6:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
2 |
2 |
50 |
54 |
Amendment 6 was not agreed.
Amendment 7 Gareth Bennett (South
Wales Central)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls for a binding referendum on whether to
keep or abolish the devolved government and parliament of Wales, in light of
the proposed aims of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill.
A
vote was taken on amendment 7:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
2 |
2 |
50 |
54 |
Amendment 7 was not agreed.
Amendment 8 Sian Gwenllian (Arfon)
Add as new point at end of motion:
Calls on the Welsh Government to explore independence in order to
protect Welsh democracy in light of the UK Government’s Internal Market Bill.
A
vote was taken on amendment 8:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
10 |
0 |
44 |
54 |
Amendment 8 was not agreed.
A
vote was taken on the motion as amended:
NDM7372 Mark Reckless (South
Wales East)
To propose that the Senedd:
Believes that the UK Government’s Internal Market Bill represents a
comprehensive assault on the devolution settlement which, if enacted, would
severely undermine the powers of the Senedd to protect and promote the
interests of the people of Wales.
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
39 |
2 |
13 |
54 |
The motion as amended was agreed.