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 14.26
Voting
on the motion under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NNDM5715
Bethan Jenkins
William Graham
Lynne Neagle
William Powell
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Calls upon the Welsh Government to
a) instigate a moratorium on opencast mining across Wales, in
order to ascertain whether planning law and current guidance provides
sufficient protection for communities affected by opencast mining;
b) respond to the Research into the Failure to Restore Opencast
Coal Sites in South Wales, stating specifically how it might address concerns
about the workability of MTAN2 and the 500m buffer zone; and
c) support affected local authorities to make legal challenges,
where required, when pursing restoration.
The
result was as follows:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
30 |
16 |
0 |
46 |
The
motion was agreed.
Publication date: 22/04/2015
Date of decision: 22/04/2015
Decided at meeting: 22/04/2015 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly