Amendment 23
- MotionRejected
This was a committee-stage vote on a bill about local bus services. Sam Rowlands (Welsh Conservatives) proposed amendment 40. It would require Welsh Ministers to publish a statement on how they will support community bus services. The Senedd rejected it, so the bill was not changed.
Whether to add amendment 40 to the bill, requiring Welsh Ministers to publish a policy statement on how community bus services will be supported.
This was a vote on Amendment 72 to the bus services Bill. Plaid Cymru's Delyth Jewell said it would make Welsh Ministers issue guidance on cross-border bus services and permits. Julie James (Welsh Labour) opposed it, saying a guide is already promised. The Senedd rejected the amendment.
Whether to add Amendment 72 to the Bill, requiring Welsh Ministers to issue guidance on cross-border bus services and how local bus permits apply to them.
This was a committee vote on a Bill about reforming bus services. Sam Rowlands (Welsh Conservatives) proposed amendment 48, requiring Welsh Ministers and a local authority to agree how any council bus funding would be used. Julie James (Welsh Labour) opposed it. The amendment was rejected.
Whether to add amendment 48, which would require Welsh Ministers and a local authority to agree how council money for local bus services will be used.
The Welsh Conservatives, led by Paul Davies, asked the Senedd to regret Wales's PISA results and school violence, and to call for tougher inspections, academies, phonics and phone bans. Plaid Cymru and Welsh Labour each offered replacement wording. All three votes were rejected, so the Senedd agreed nothing.
The Welsh Conservative motion as originally written, regretting PISA results and school violence and asking the Government for tougher inspections, academies, phonics and phone bans.
Plaid Cymru's amendment 1 (Heledd Fychan) would replace the motion with wording regretting Labour's record and welcoming Plaid's plans on literacy, numeracy, school libraries and teacher recruitment.
Labour's amendment 2 (Jane Hutt) would replace the motion with wording welcoming Welsh Government work on phonics, behaviour, wellbeing and the school workforce, and noting better reading and attendance.