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NDM8875 Plaid Cymru Debate - Child payments

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Meeting: 02/04/2025 - Plenary (Item 8)

Plaid Cymru Debate - Child payments

NDM8875 Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)  

To propose that the Senedd: 

Calls on the Welsh Government to implement a child payment. 

The following amendment was tabled: 

Amendment 1 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)  

Delete all and replace with: 

To propose that the Senedd: 

1.    Supports the range of actions the Welsh Government is taking to address the purpose of a child payment such as the additional investments being made through the Welsh Government’s final budget for 2025-26, including an extra £30 million for childcare and additional £1.4 million for the work to ensure people in Wales are claiming every pound they are entitled to. 

2.    Notes the commitment as part of the Welsh Government’s final budget for 2024-25 to engage with the Scottish Government to better understand the Scottish Child Payment and how it operates. 

 

 

Minutes:

The item started at 18.06 

Voting on the motion and amendments under this item was deferred until Voting Time. 

A vote was taken on the motion without amendment: 

NDM8875Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central) 

To propose that the Senedd:   

Calls on the Welsh Government to implement a child payment. 

For 

Abstain 

Against 

Total 

13 

39 

52 

The motion without amendment was not agreed. 

The following amendment was tabled: 

Amendment 1Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)   

Delete all and replace with: 

To propose that the Senedd: 

1.    Supports the range of actions the Welsh Government is taking to address the purpose of a child payment such as the additional investments being made through the Welsh Government’s final budget for 2025-26, including an extra £30 million for childcare and additional £1.4 million for the work to ensure people in Wales are claiming every pound they are entitled to. 

2.    Notes the commitment as part of the Welsh Government’s final budget for 2024-25 to engage with the Scottish Government to better understand the Scottish Child Payment and how it operates. 

A vote was taken on amendment 1: 

For 

Abstain 

Against 

Total 

26 

27 

53 

As required by Standing Order 6.20 the Presiding Officer exercised her casting vote by voting against the amendment. Therefore, the amendment 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.