Elin Jones: Therefore, we move to the first item on our agenda, and that is the debate on the Queen’s Speech, and I call on a member of the Business Committee to move the motion.
Elin Jones: I now call on the Secretary of State for Wales, the Rt Hon Alun Cairns MP to move the motion.
Elin Jones: I now call on the First Minister, Carwyn Jones.
Elin Jones: I have selected two amendments to the motion, and I call on Leanne Wood to move amendments 1 and 2, tabled in the name of Simon Thomas.
Elin Jones: Neil Hamilton.
Elin Jones: I now call on the Secretary of State to speak.
Elin Jones: I call on Jane Hutt to respond to the debate.
Elin Jones: The proposal is to agree amendment 1. Does any Member object? [Objection.] We will take electronic votes on the remaining votes under this item. In accordance with Standing Order 11.15, the Business Committee has decided that any vote necessary will take place at the end of the debate, and, unless three Members wish for the bell to be rung, I will proceed directly to the vote. I therefore...
Elin Jones: I now call for a vote on amendment 2, tabled in the name of Simon Thomas. Open the vote. Close the vote. For the amendment 34, abstentions 11, against none. Therefore amendment 2 is agreed.
Elin Jones: I now call for a vote on the motion as amended.
Elin Jones: Open the vote. Close the vote. For 35, abstentions two, against 10. The motion as amended is therefore agreed.
Elin Jones: I thank the Secretary of State. We now move to our next item of business.
Elin Jones: Order, and I call the National Assembly to order .
Elin Jones: The first item this afternoon is questions to the First Minister, and I call on Russell George to ask the first question.
Elin Jones: Sorry, I need to clarify that all questions that are tabled in order are accepted to be asked in this Assembly, and your question has been accepted as it is in order.
Elin Jones: No, no—
Elin Jones: We now move to questions from the party leaders, and I first call the leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew R.T. Davies.
Elin Jones: The leader of the UKIP group, Neil Hamilton.
Elin Jones: The leader of the opposition, Leanne Wood.
Elin Jones: Hannah Blythyn. Question 5, therefore—Janet Finch-Saunders.