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NDM7855 Welsh Conservatives debate

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Meeting: 01/12/2021 - Plenary (Item 7)

Welsh Conservatives debate – Motor neurone disease

NDM7855 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)

To propose that the Senedd:

1. Recognises that motor neurone disease (MND) is a rapidly progressing disease that has no cure and that a third of people die within a year of diagnosis.

2. Welcomes the UK Government’s investment of £50 million to fund research into new treatments for MND.

3. Acknowledges that equitable and faster access to housing adaptations are essential to ensuring people living with MND can live safely, independently and with dignity in their own homes.

4. Believes that the impact of the delays in installation of housing adaptations and the means testing process has a huge impact on the time people living with MND have left.

5. Calls on the Welsh Government to simplify access to housing adaptations by creating a non-means tested, fast-tracked process.

The following amendment has been tabled:

Amendment 1. Siân Gwenllian (Arfon)

Add as new point at end of motion:

Calls on the Welsh Government to explore the establishment of Wales-based centres of expertise for neurological diseases to improve the scale and quality of clinical trials and increase patient access to new treatments.

Minutes:

The item started at 17.08

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

A vote was taken on the motion without amendment:

NDM7855 Darren Millar (Clwyd West)

To propose that the Senedd:

1. Recognises that motor neurone disease (MND) is a rapidly progressing disease that has no cure and that a third of people die within a year of diagnosis.

2. Welcomes the UK Government’s investment of £50 million to fund research into new treatments for MND.

3. Acknowledges that equitable and faster access to housing adaptations are essential to ensuring people living with MND can live safely, independently and with dignity in their own homes.

4. Believes that the impact of the delays in installation of housing adaptations and the means testing process has a huge impact on the time people living with MND have left.

5. Calls on the Welsh Government to simplify access to housing adaptations by creating a non-means tested, fast-tracked process.

For

Abstain

Against

Total

41

0

12

53

The motion without amendment was agreed.