Decision details
Debate by Individual Members under Standing Order 11.21(iv)
Decision Maker: Business Committee - Fourth Assembly, Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Purpose:
Standing Order 11.21:
Time must be made available
in each Assembly year for debates on the following items of business:
(iv) motions
proposed by any Member who is not a member of the government
Decision:
The item started at
14.56
Voting on the motion and
amendment under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
A vote was taken on the motion without
amendment:
NDM5423 Bethan Jenkins (South Wales West)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes:
a) the adverse impact upon over 700 former
Visteon workers living in Swansea and surrounding areas caused by the loss of
their pensions;
b) the knock-on effect to the economy of Swansea
and surrounding areas caused by the loss of those Visteon pensions;
c) that this year, on April the 2nd, marks the
fifth anniversary of the closure of Visteon as a company and that a mass
demonstration is being organised at Westminster; and
d) that this year is an important year for the
campaign, given that the court case that Unite the Union are taking against
Ford will take place at the end of 2014 at the High Court in London.
2. Calls on the Welsh Government to hold an
inquiry into the impact of the loss of pensions to both the Visteon workers and
the economy of the area in which they live.
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
23 |
14 |
4 |
41 |
The motion without amendment was agreed.
Publication date: 12/02/2014
Date of decision: 12/02/2014
Decided at meeting: 12/02/2014 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly