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