National Assembly for Wales

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes and welcomes the campaign of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) group to achieve fair transitional state pension arrangements for all women born in the 1950s affected by changes to state pension laws.

2. Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the UK Government to provide the following to all women born in the 1950s affected by changes to state pension laws:

a) a bridging pension that supplies an income until state pension age, which is not means-tested;

b) compensation for the absence of a bridging pension to those who have already reached their state pension age;

c) compensation to all those who have not started to receive a bridging pension by an appropriate date, which would be sufficient to recover lost monetary interest; and

d) compensation to the beneficiaries of the estates of those who are deceased and failed to receive a bridging pension.

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To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes the letter from the Permanent Secretary, dated 16 March, in relation to motion NDM6668, which was agreed by the National Assembly for Wales on 28 February 2018.

2. Regrets the failure of the Permanent Secretary to comply with the wishes of Assembly Members.

3. Acting in accordance with Section 37(1)(b) of the Government of Wales Act 2006, requires the Welsh Government’s Permanent Secretary to produce for the purposes of the Assembly, with appropriate redactions to ensure anonymity of witnesses, the report into the investigation on “whether there is any evidence of a prior unauthorised sharing of information – i.e. a “leak” - by the Welsh Government of information relating to the recent Ministerial reshuffle".

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To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes the growing teacher recruitment crisis in maintained schools in Wales. 

2. Regrets that there has been insufficient Welsh Government action to address the causes of this to date. 

3. Calls on the Welsh Government to work with the Education Workforce Council to develop a national school workforce plan for Wales, in order to:

a) remove unnecessary barriers to the recruitment of overseas trained teachers;

b) recognise the skills of experienced and successful teachers working in further education colleges, and in independent schools and colleges by providing them with qualified teacher status; and

c) establish routes into teaching for experienced teaching support assistants in Wales. 

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

Notes the report of the External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee on 'How is the Welsh Government preparing for Brexit?', which was laid in the Table Office on 5 February 2018.

Note: The response by the Welsh Government was laid on 12 April 2018.