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Transcript: Transcript for 10/01/2017 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd

Items
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Record of Proceedings

(45 mins)

1.

Questions to the First Minister

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

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Minutes:

The item started at 13.30

The first 7 questions were asked. The Presiding Officer invited party leaders to ask questions to the First Minister after question 2.

Urgent Question

The item started at 14.15

Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn): Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement regarding comments made by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine that ‘emergency care in Wales is in a state of crisis’?

(30 mins)

2.

Business Statement and Announcement

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Minutes:

The item started at 14.33

(45 mins)

3.

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport: Consultation on the Draft Dementia Strategic Action Plan for Wales

Minutes:

The item started at 14.50

(30 mins)

4.

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs: Avian Influenza

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Minutes:

The item started at 15.35

(45 mins)

5.

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport: The New Treatment Fund

Minutes:

The item started at 16.13

(60 mins)

6.

Debate: The Final Budget 2017-18

NDM6192 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with Standing Order 20.25, approves the Annual Budget for the financial year 2017-18 laid in the Table Office by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government on 20 December 2016.

Footnote:

In accordance with the relevant provisions contained in the Government of Wales Act 2006 and Standing Order 20.28, the Annual Budget comprises the following information:

1. the written statement required under section 125(3) of the Government of Wales Act 2006

2. the resources agreed by the Treasury for the Welsh block budget for the financial year covered by the motion;

3. a reconciliation between the resources allocated to the Welsh block budget by the Treasury and the resources to be authorised for use in the motion;

4. a reconciliation between the estimated amounts to be paid into the Welsh Consolidated Fund by the Secretary of State and the amounts to be authorised for payment out of the Fund in the motion; and

5. a reconciliation between the resources to be authorised under section 125(1)(a) and (b) of the Act and the amounts to be authorised for payment out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund under section 125(1)(c).

The following additional information has been made available to Members:

        an Explanatory Note on changes between Draft Budget proposals and the Annual Budget.

 

Supporting Documents
The Annual Budget for the financial year 2017-18
Report of the Finance Committee

Minutes:

The item started at 16.46

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

A vote was taken on the motion:

NDM6192 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with Standing Order 20.25, approves the Annual Budget for the financial year 2017-18 laid in the Table Office by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government on 20 December 2016.

For

Abstain

Against

Total

27

8

17

52

The motion was agreed.

 

(60 mins)

7.

Debate: The General Principles of the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill

NDM6193 Mark Drakeford (Cardiff West)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales in accordance with Standing Order 26.11:

Agrees to the general principles of the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill.

The Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill and Explanatory Memorandum were laid before the Assembly on 12 September 2016.

The report of the Finance Committee on the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill was laid before the Assembly on 20 December 2016.

Supporting Documents
The Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill
Explanatory Memorandum
Report of the Finance Committee
Report of the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee

 

Minutes:

The item started at 17.46

NDM6193 Mark Drakeford (Cardiff West)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales in accordance with Standing Order 26.11:

Agrees to the general principles of the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill.

The Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill and Explanatory Memorandum were laid before the Assembly on 12 September 2016.

The report of the Finance Committee on the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill was laid before the Assembly on 20 December 2016.

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

 

(5 mins)

8.

Debate on the Financial Resolution on the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill

NDM6194 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, for the purposes of any provisions resulting from the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill, agrees to any increase in expenditure of a kind referred to in Standing Order 26.69, arising in consequence of the Bill.

Minutes:

The item started at 18.39

NDM6194 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, for the purposes of any provisions resulting from the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Bill, agrees to any increase in expenditure of a kind referred to in Standing Order 26.69, arising in consequence of the Bill.

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.

 

9.

Voting time

Minutes:

The item started at 18.40

 

Votes Summary 10.01.17

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