NDM7276 Brexit Party Debate - Devolution
NDM7276 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.
Business type: Debate
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
Status: Complete
First published: 04/06/2021
Decision due: 26 Feb 2020 by Plenary - Fifth Senedd
Lead member: Caroline Jones MS