NDM7276 - Opposition Debate
Tabled on 19/02/2020 | For debate on 26/02/2020To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Regrets the failure of Welsh devolution to date.
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To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Regrets that Welsh devolution has been hindered to date by the failure to devolve further powers.
2. Calls for Welsh devolution to be strengthened by:
a) the devolution of air passenger duty; and
b) the full legislative devolution of the justice system and the maintenance of independent Welsh institutions of justice.
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Believes that the National Assembly for Wales should be abolished.
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Believes that practical alternatives to devolution, in the absence of a National Assembly for Wales, include democratising the NHS and giving greater powers to parent-governors to determine schools's education policy.
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To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Welcomes the collective contributions that have been made by political parties on all sides and by wider civic society to making devolution the settled will of the Welsh people.
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To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
1. Regrets the dismal record of the Labour Welsh Government that has been in power continuously since the inception of devolution.
2. Believes that successive Westminster UK Governments – under both Labour and the Conservatives – have presided over intergenerational poverty and underinvestment in Wales.
3. Believes that decisions about Wales’s future should be made by those who live and work here.
4. Believes that having the economic and fiscal levers of an independent country is the key to Wales’s future prosperity.
5. Agrees that the power to call a future referendum on independence should lie with the elected representatives of the people of Wales free from any veto by Westminster.