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NDM6892 Welsh Conservatives debate - Welsh Government Performance

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Meeting: 05/12/2018 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 6)

Welsh Conservatives debate - Welsh Government Performance

NDM6892 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Regrets that since December 2009:

a) referral-to-treatment waiting times in the Welsh NHS have increased;

b) performance against both the 4 and 12 hour targets in Welsh emergency departments has deteriorated;

c) cancer treatment targets have never been met in Wales;

d) the number of beds in Welsh hospitals has fallen;

e) GCSE performance has deteriorated in Wales with attainment of A*-C grades for summer 2018 the worst since 2005;

f) Wales’s OECD PISA scores are worse in reading, maths and science with the most recent results being worse than in 2009, placing Wales in the bottom half of the OECD global ranking and at the bottom of the UK rankings;

g) scores of Welsh schools have permanently closed;

h) gross disposable household income as a percentage of the UK average has fallen;

i) Wales has had the poorest average wages growth rate of the UK nations;

j) business rates in Wales have become less competitive than other parts of the UK; and

k) the annual number of new homes being built in Wales has fallen.

2. Calls upon the Welsh Government to acknowledge its failures, abandon its failing policies, and to deliver the positive change that Wales needs.

The following amendment was tabled:

Amendment 1 - Julie James (Swansea West)

Delete all after Wales and replace with:

1.    Recognises:

a)    Almost nine out of 10 people are treated within the target time of 26 weeks

b)    Investment in the Welsh NHS is at record levels

c)    More people are surviving cancer than ever in Wales and receiving treatment within the target time

d)    The proportion of pupils awarded the top GCSE grades at A* to A increased to 18.5% in 2018

e)    8.7% of pupils were awarded A* at A-level in 2018 – the best results in Wales since the grade was introduced in 2010

f)     Gross disposable household income in 2016 was £15,835 per person, equivalent to 81.5% of the UK GDHI, up from 2015

g)    Gross weekly earnings in 2018 for full-time employees working in Wales have increased by 2.1% since 2017

h)    1.5m people were employed in Wales in the three months to September 2018, up 4.2% on the same period a year earlier – the largest increase of any UK country or region

i)     Three-quarters of small business in Wales receive help with rates bills and half pay no non-domestics rates at all

j)     20,000 new affordable homes will be built with Welsh Government funding this Assembly term.

2.    Thanks the First Minister for his leadership and his work during his nine years in office.

 

 

Minutes:

The item started at 15.26

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

A vote was taken on the motion without amendment:

NDM6892 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Regrets that since December 2009:

a) referral-to-treatment waiting times in the Welsh NHS have increased;

b) performance against both the 4 and 12 hour targets in Welsh emergency departments has deteriorated;

c) cancer treatment targets have never been met in Wales;

d) the number of beds in Welsh hospitals has fallen;

e) GCSE performance has deteriorated in Wales with attainment of A*-C grades for summer 2018 the worst since 2005;

f) Wales’s OECD PISA scores are worse in reading, maths and science with the most recent results being worse than in 2009, placing Wales in the bottom half of the OECD global ranking and at the bottom of the UK rankings;

g) scores of Welsh schools have permanently closed;

h) gross disposable household income as a percentage of the UK average has fallen;

i) Wales has had the poorest average wages growth rate of the UK nations;

j) business rates in Wales have become less competitive than other parts of the UK; and

k) the annual number of new homes being built in Wales has fallen.

2. Calls upon the Welsh Government to acknowledge its failures, abandon its failing policies, and to deliver the positive change that Wales needs.

For

Abstain

Against

Total

12

5

25

42

The motion without amendment was not agreed.

The following amendment was tabled:

Amendment 1 - Julie James (Swansea West)

Delete all after Wales and replace with:

1.    Recognises:

a)    Almost nine out of 10 people are treated within the target time of 26 weeks

b)    Investment in the Welsh NHS is at record levels

c)    More people are surviving cancer than ever in Wales and receiving treatment within the target time

d)    The proportion of pupils awarded the top GCSE grades at A* to A increased to 18.5% in 2018

e)    8.7% of pupils were awarded A* at A-level in 2018 – the best results in Wales since the grade was introduced in 2010

f)     Gross disposable household income in 2016 was £15,835 per person, equivalent to 81.5% of the UK GDHI, up from 2015

g)    Gross weekly earnings in 2018 for full-time employees working in Wales have increased by 2.1% since 2017

h)    1.5m people were employed in Wales in the three months to September 2018, up 4.2% on the same period a year earlier – the largest increase of any UK country or region

i)     Three-quarters of small business in Wales receive help with rates bills and half pay no non-domestics rates at all

j)     20,000 new affordable homes will be built with Welsh Government funding this Assembly term.

2.    Thanks the First Minister for his leadership and his work during his nine years in office.

A vote was taken on amendment 1:

For

Abstain

Against

Total

25

5

12

42

Amendment 1 was agreed.

A vote was taken on the motion as amended:

NDM6892 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1.    Recognises:

a)    Almost nine out of 10 people are treated within the target time of 26 weeks

b)    Investment in the Welsh NHS is at record levels

c)    More people are surviving cancer than ever in Wales and receiving treatment within the target time

d)    The proportion of pupils awarded the top GCSE grades at A* to A increased to 18.5% in 2018

e)    8.7% of pupils were awarded A* at A-level in 2018 – the best results in Wales since the grade was introduced in 2010

f)     Gross disposable household income in 2016 was £15,835 per person, equivalent to 81.5% of the UK GDHI, up from 2015

g)    Gross weekly earnings in 2018 for full-time employees working in Wales have increased by 2.1% since 2017

h)    1.5m people were employed in Wales in the three months to September 2018, up 4.2% on the same period a year earlier – the largest increase of any UK country or region

i)     Three-quarters of small business in Wales receive help with rates bills and half pay no non-domestics rates at all

j)     20,000 new affordable homes will be built with Welsh Government funding this Assembly term.

2.    Thanks the First Minister for his leadership and his work during his nine years in office.

For

Abstain

Against

Total

25

5

12

42

The motion as amended was agreed.