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Transcript: Transcript for 01/03/2022 - Plenary

Items
Expected timing No. Item

This meeting was held in a hybrid format, with some Members in the Senedd Chamber and others joining by video-conference.

Emergency Question

The item started at 13.30

Answered by the First Minister

Jack Sargeant (Alyn and Deeside): Will the First Minister make a statement on the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Welsh citizens and businesses?

(45 mins)

1.

Questions to the First Minister

The Presiding Officer will call Party Leaders to ask questions without notice to the First Minister after Question 2.

View Questions

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

The item started at 14.03

The first 5 questions were asked. The Presiding Officer invited party leaders to ask questions to the First Minister after question 2.

(30 mins)

2.

Business Statement and Announcement

Minutes:

The item started at 14.45

(45 mins)

3.

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing: Healthy Weight, Healthy Wales 2022-2024

Minutes:

The item started at 15.03

(45 mins)

4.

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The Children and Young People’s Plan

Minutes:

The item started at 15.34

(45 mins)

5.

Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Period Dignity

Minutes:

The item started at 16.03

(0 mins)

6.

Statement by the Deputy Minister for Social Services: The New Learning Disability Action Plan - WITHDRAWN

(45 mins)

7.

Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Cymraeg 2050 – the next steps

Minutes:

The item started at 16.42

(20 mins)

8.

The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No. 5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 5) Regulations 2022

NDM7928 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5:

1. Approves The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No.5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No.5) Regulations 2022 laid in the Table Office on 17 February 2022.

Supporting Documents
Explanatory Memorandum
Report of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Minutes:

NDM7928 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5:

1. Approves The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (No.5) (Wales) (Amendment) (No.5) Regulations 2022 laid in the Table Office on 17 February 2022.

Supporting Documents
Explanatory Memorandum

The result was as follows:

For

Abstain

Against

Total

38

14

0

52

The motion was agreed.

 

(15 mins)

9.

The Eggs (Wales) Regulations 2022

NDM7929 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5:

1. Approves that the draft The Eggs (Wales) Regulations 2022 is made in accordance with the draft laid in the Table Office on 1 February 2022.

Supporting Documents
Explanatory Memorandum
Report of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Minutes:

The item started at 17.27

NDM7929 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 27.5:

1. Approves that the draft The Eggs (Wales) Regulations 2022 is made in accordance with the draft laid in the Table Office on 1 February 2022.

Supporting Documents
Explanatory Memorandum
Report of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

 

(15 mins)

10.

LCM on the Subsidy Control Bill

NDM7927 Rebecca Evans (Gower)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6 agrees that provisions in the Subsidy Control Bill in so far as they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd, should be considered by the UK Parliament.

A Legislative Consent Memorandum and a Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum were laid in Table Office on 13 July 2021 and 6 January 2022 respectively in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.

Subsidy Control Bill

Supporting Documents
Report of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee
Report of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Report of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee (Memorandum No.2)

Minutes:

The item started at 17.27

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

NDM7927 Rebecca Evans (Gower)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6 agrees that provisions in the Subsidy Control Bill in so far as they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd, should be considered by the UK Parliament.

A Legislative Consent Memorandum and a Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum were laid in Table Office on 13 July 2021 and 6 January 2022 respectively in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.

Subsidy Control Bill

Supporting Documents
Report of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee
Report of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Report of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee (Memorandum No.2)

The result was as follows:

For

Abstain

Against

Total

15

0

37

52

The motion was not agreed.

 

Motion to suspend Standing Orders

NNDM7937 Lesley Griffiths (Wrexham)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Orders 33.6 and 33.8:

Suspends Standing Order 12.20(i) and that part of Standing Order 11.16 that requires the weekly announcement under Standing Order 11.11 to constitute the timetable for business in Plenary for the following week, to allow NNDM7935 and NNDM7936, to be considered in Plenary on 1 March 2022.

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

11.

LCM on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - motion 1

NNDM7935 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6, agrees that provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill regarding ‘Repeal of the Vagrancy Act 1824 etc’ in so far as they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd, should be considered by the UK Parliament.

A Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum has been laid in Table Office on 1 March 2022 in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Minutes:

The item started at 17.45

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

NNDM7935 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6, agrees that provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill regarding ‘Repeal of the Vagrancy Act 1824 etc’ in so far as they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd, should be considered by the UK Parliament.

A Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum has been laid in Table Office on 1 March 2022 in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

The result was as follows:

For

Abstain

Against

Total

40

1

11

52

The motion was agreed.

 

12.

LCM on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - motion 2

NNDM7936 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6, agrees that provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, ‘Imposing conditions on public processions’, ‘Imposing conditions on public assemblies’, ‘Imposing conditions on one-person protests’, and ‘Expedited Public Spaces Protection Orders’, in so far as they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd, should be considered by the UK Parliament.

A Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum has been laid in Table Office on 01 March 2022 in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Minutes:

The item started at 17.45

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

NNDM7936 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the Senedd, in accordance with Standing Order 29.6, agrees that provisions in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, ‘Imposing conditions on public processions’, ‘Imposing conditions on public assemblies’, ‘Imposing conditions on one-person protests’, and ‘Expedited Public Spaces Protection Orders’, in so far as they fall within the legislative competence of the Senedd, should be considered by the UK Parliament.

A Supplementary Legislative Consent Memorandum has been laid in Table Office on 01 March 2022 in accordance with Standing Order 29.2.

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36The result was as follows:

For

Abstain

Against

Total

15

0

37

52

The motion was not agreed.

 

In accordance with Standing Order 12.18, at 18.06 proceedings were suspended to allow a technical break before Voting Time.

 

13.

Voting Time

Minutes:

The item started at 18.10

Votes Summary

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