Third Assembly Plenary Meeting

Votes and Proceedings (130)

Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Time: 13.30

Item 1:  Questions to the First Minister

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14.31
Item 2: Business Statement and Announcement  

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14.42
Item 3: Statement by the Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing: Climate Change Commission

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15.10
Item 4: Statement by the Minister for Health and Social Services: Community Health Councils Consultation  

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Item 5: Statement by the Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing: Update on the Countryside Access Programme -  issued as a written statement

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Item 6: Statement by the Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing: Planning for Climate Change innovative policy - issued as a written statement

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15.40
Item 7: Motion to approve a Welfare Reform Bill Legislative Consent Motion under Standing Order 26

NDM4206 Jane Hutt (Vale of Glamorgan)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with Standing Order 26.4, agrees that the provisions of Part 2 of the Welfare Reform Bill (Disabled Persons: Right to Control Provision of Services), as introduced into the House of Lords on 18^th March 2009, so far as those provisions fall within the legislative competence of the National Assembly for Wales, should be considered by the UK Parliament.

The Motion was agreed, in accordance with Standing Order 7.35.

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15.45

Item 8:  Debate on Climbing Higher - Creating an Active Wales Strategic Action Plan

NDM4207 Carwyn Jones (Bridgend)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales

Welcomes the consultation on the draft Climbing Higher: Creating an Active Wales Strategic Action Plan, and supports its vision and direction for increasing levels of physical activity in Wales.


The following amendments were tabled:

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

Amendment 1 - Alun Cairns (South Wales West)

Add new point at end of motion:

"Calls on the Welsh Assembly Government to work with Local Authorities & Fields in Trust to increase the available public space for outdoor activity, sport and allotments by bringing publicly held land & and brownfield sites back into use.”

A vote was taken on Amendment 1:

Amendment 1 was not agreed.

Amendment 2 - Alun Cairns (South Wales West)

Add new point at end of motion:

"Regrets the lack of progress in tackling rising obesity levels in Wales and calls on the Welsh Assembly Government to use the opportunities presented by 'Climbing Higher: Creating an Active Wales’ to tackle obesity, in order to limit the possible future consequences for NHS Wales. "

A vote was taken on Amendment 2:

Amendment 2 was not agreed.

A vote was taken on the motion


NDM4207 Carwyn Jones (Bridgend)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales

Welcomes the consultation on the draft Climbing Higher: Creating an Active Wales Strategic Action Plan, and supports its vision and direction for increasing levels of physical activity in Wales.

The Motion was agreed

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With the agreement of the Assembly voting time was brought forward.

Voting Time at 16.45

The meeting concluded at 16.54

The Assembly will sit again in Plenary at 1.30pm on Wednesday 12 May 2009

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