Memorials Policy

Part of 3. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:06 pm on 5 February 2020.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 3:06, 5 February 2020

Thank you for that response, Presiding Officer. I personally believe that it is very important that we do reflect on those Assembly Members who have passed away whilst they've been an Assembly Member, right across the terms of the Assembly since 1999. I hear what you say about the policy and the 10-year rule, and I was grateful to see a letter, obviously, but disappointed with its contents, that the Commission recently discussed this.

If the Assembly decided that, actually, that policy needed to change to reflect the sentiment I've just put to you, would the Commission be open to reconsidering its position so that a fitting memorial, at no expense to the taxpayer, could be erected on the Assembly estate? So that remembrance could be shown to those Members who have passed away in the time that they were Assembly Members.