Meeting Venue:
Y Siambr - Y Senedd
Meeting date:
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Meeting time: 13.30
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This meeting will be held in a hybrid format, with some Members in the Senedd Chamber and others joining by video-conference.
(15 mins)
(20 mins)
To ask the Deputy Minister for Social Services
Jane Dodds (Mid and West Wales): Would the Minister make a statement on the Child Practice Review into the death of Kaylea Titford?
To ask the Minister for Economy
David Rees (Aberavon): What discussions has the Welsh Government had with Tata following the announcement to close the coke ovens at Port Talbot?
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Minister after Question 2.
(45 mins)
The Presiding Officer will call party spokespeople to ask questions without notice to the Minister after Question 2.
(5 mins)
(60 mins)
NDM8505 Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Believes that:
a) the national collections of Wales, which are under the care of the National Library of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru, belong to everyone in Wales;
b) the collections need to be protected for future generations, while also continuing to be used to inspire and motivate people of all ages; and
c) free access to our national museums has been an undoubted success since the introduction of the policy in 2001, and that this policy is one that should be protected.
2. Notes:
a) warnings from the institutions that revenue and capital fiscal cuts endanger the national collections, due to unsuitable spaces and stores and also a reduction in the number of specialist staff who are now employed to care for them;
b) the concerns that further cuts will worsen the situation; and
c) Welsh Government responsibilities under the Government of Wales Act 2006 for our national collections.
3. Calls on the Welsh Government to:
a) commission a panel of experts to establish what the danger is to the collections, and work with the institutions and the Welsh Government to implement a plan to protect them;
b) work with the National Library of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru, and the unions that represent the staff in these institutions, to ensure their viability for the future; and
c) work with Amgueddfa Cymru to retain the free entry policy to our national museums.
Co-submitters
Mabon ap Gwynfor (Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Jane Dodds (Mid and West Wales)
Delyth Jewell (South Wales East)
Sioned Williams (South Wales West)
Tom Giffard (South Wales West)
(30 mins)
NDM8525 Jack Sargeant (Alyn and Deeside)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the petition ‘P-06-1367: Fund the removal of quarry rocks and the restoration of sand and groynes to Llandudno North Shore’ which received 12,228 signatures.
(60 mins)
NDM8524 Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Recognises the cross-party consensus in the Senedd around the need to reform the Welsh funding model.
2. Calls on the UK Government to bring the unfair Barnett formula to an end and to fund Wales according to need and not based on population.
The following amendments were tabled:
Amendment 1 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)
Add as new points after point 1, and renumber accordingly:
Notes the current funding model which sees Wales receive £1.20 for every £1 spent on health and education in England, with only £1.05 reaching the Welsh NHS and classrooms.
Notes the nearly £1 billion in additional investment in Wales from the UK Government through the Shared Prosperity Fund and levelling-up funding.
Amendment 2 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)
Delete point 2 and replace with:
Calls on the UK Government to replace the outdated Barnett formula with a new relative needs-based system agreed by all four nations, within a new fiscal agreement overseen and operated by a body independent of the UK Government.
(30 mins)
NDM8517 Carolyn Thomas (North Wales)
A national plan for flood resilience
(30 mins)
NDM8523 Peredur Owen Griffiths (South Wales East)
Saving lives and protecting our communities – the case for overdose prevention centres
The Senedd will sit again in Plenary at 13.30, Tuesday, 16 April 2024