Motions and Amendments for Debate on 8 December 2010
Motions tabled on 1 December 2010
Short Debate
NDM4616 Dai Lloyd (South Wales West): ‘O bydded i’r hen iaith barhau – One Wales and the Welsh Language’
NDM4613 William Graham (South Wales East)
To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Agrees the budget of the Assembly Commission for 2011-12, as specified in Table 1 of the “National Assembly for Wales Assembly Commission Budget Proposals 2011-12”, laid before the Assembly on 1 December 2010; and that it be incorporated in the Annual Budget Motion under Standing Order 27.17(ii).
NDM4614 Nick Ramsay (Monmouthshire)
The National Assembly for Wales:
1. Calls on the Welsh Assembly Government to ensure that funding for schools reaches frontline services;
2. Believes that by bypassing local education authorities, schools will receive funding in a fairer and more transparent manner; and
3. Believes that this system will give schools the flexibility to manage their own affairs and this will lead to increased standards.
NDM4615 Nick Ramsay (Monmouthshire)
The National Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the importance of promoting enterprise and life skills in Welsh Schools; and
2. Believes that all Secondary Schools in Wales should establish a social enterprise to be managed and run by pupils.
NDM4617 Peter Black (South Wales West)
The National Assembly for Wales:
Notes with regret:
(a) that life expectancy in Wales has failed to increase in line with that in England, and
(b) that the difference in life expectancy between different parts of Wales continues to widen.
Amendments tabled on 03 December 2010
To propose that the Assembly resolves to adopt the following amendments to motions:
NDM4614
1. Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
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The National Assembly for Wales:
Notes and supports the work of the independent Task and Finish Group on thestructure ofthe deliveryofeducation which has been set upto consider not only funding, but alsogovernance and performance improvement arrangements and, in particular which education services should be provided and by whom.
2. Peter Black (South Wales West)
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The National Assembly believes:
1. That monitoring the success of the education system should be based on educational standards and not just financial input;
2. That core funding for schools should not be delivered through specific grants and therefore calls on the Welsh Assembly Government to outline a clear timetable to substantially reduce the number of ring-fenced grants to schools, which are bureaucratic and reduce the ability of the school to determine activities in relation to its own needs; and
3. That money from the Welsh Assembly Government provided directly to schools should be based on breaking the link between deprivation and educational achievement.
NDM4615
Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
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The National Assembly for Wales:
Notes the Welsh Assembly Government's support for enterprise and life skills in Welsh schools as evidenced in the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy (YES): An Action Plan for Wales 2010-15.
The Welsh Assembly Government’s Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy (YES): An Action Plan for Wales 2010-15 can be accessed via the following hyperlink:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/businessandeconomy/publications/yesactionplan1015/?lang=en
NDM4617
1. Nick Ramsay (Monmouth)
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Regrets the failure of the Welsh Assembly Government to cut NHS management costs and redirect funds to frontline services so as to improve life expectancy.
2. Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)
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The National Assembly for Wales:
Notes the steady improvement in life expectancy in Wales highlighted in last month's Statistical Bulletin (SB 94/2010), which confirms that life expectancy has risen since the early 1990's by 3.9 years for males and 2.7 years for females.
Statistical Bulletin SB 94/2010 can be accessed via the following hyperlink:
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/statistics/headlines/health2010/101124/?lang=en