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NDM8369 Plaid Cymru Debate - Bus services
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Meeting: 04/10/2023 - Plenary (Item 7)
Plaid Cymru Debate - Bus services
NDM8369 Heledd Fychan (South Wales
Central)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Believes that bus services are essential
to the connectivity of Welsh communities and for children travelling to school.
2. Notes that the Confederation of
Passenger Transport has warned of further cuts to the provision of Welsh bus
services without firm guarantees on long-term funding from the Welsh
Government.
3. Regrets that almost 10 per cent of
Wales’s bus routes were axed over the summer due to the end of Bus Emergency
Scheme (BES) funding.
4. Expresses concern that the end of the
Rural Development Programme Grant will lead to the full closure of the fflecsi
Bwcabus service across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire by 31
October and calls on the Welsh Government to ensure that it’s reinstated.
5. Believes that Wales’s public transport
network could be placed on a sustainable footing if Wales were to receive its
fair share of HS2 funding.
6. Calls on the
Welsh Government to protect, invest in and expand bus services across Wales.
The following amendment was tabled:
Amendment 1 Lesley
Griffiths (Wrexham)
Delete points 2, 3 and 4 and replace with:
Notes that by the end of 23/24 Welsh
Government will have provided over £200m of emergency funding to the bus
industry.
Notes the failure of the UK Government to keep its promise that we would not be worse off as a result of Brexit has led to local authorities withdrawing the Bwcabws service.
Minutes:
The item started at 16.51
Voting on the motion and amendments under
this item was deferred until Voting Time.
A vote was taken on the motion without
amendment:
NDM8369 Heledd
Fychan (South Wales Central)
To
propose that the Senedd:
1.
Believes that bus services are essential to the connectivity of Welsh
communities and for children travelling to school.
2.
Notes that the Confederation of Passenger Transport has warned of further cuts
to the provision of Welsh bus services without firm guarantees on long-term
funding from the Welsh Government.
3.
Regrets that almost 10 per cent of Wales’s bus routes were axed over the summer
due to the end of Bus Emergency Scheme (BES) funding.
4.
Expresses concern that the end of the Rural Development Programme Grant will
lead to the full closure of the fflecsi Bwcabus service across Carmarthenshire,
Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire by 31 October and calls on the Welsh Government to
ensure that it’s reinstated.
5.
Believes that Wales’s public transport network could be placed on a sustainable
footing if Wales were to receive its fair share of HS2
funding.
6.
Calls on the Welsh Government to protect, invest in and expand bus services
across Wales.
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
26 |
0 |
27 |
53 |
The motion without amendment was not agreed.
The following amendment was tabled:
Amendment
1 Lesley
Griffiths (Wrexham)
Delete
points 2, 3 and 4 and replace with:
Notes
that by the end of 23/24 Welsh Government will have provided over £200m of
emergency funding to the bus industry.
Notes
the failure of the UK Government to keep its promise that we would not be worse
off as a result of Brexit has led to local authorities withdrawing the Bwcabws
service.
A vote was taken on amendment 1:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
26 |
0 |
27 |
53 |
Amendment 1 was not agreed.
As the Senedd did not agree the motion without amendment, and did not agree the amendment tabled to the motion, the motion was therefore not agreed.