Budget hits business as Rachel Reeves raises taxes by £40bn — as it happened Labour’s first budget for 14 years includes a cash injection for the NHS and billions more in borrowing, but the OBR says any boost to growth will be temporary Commenting following his exchange with the Labour Welsh Government’s Cabinet Secretary for…
Today, on World Diabetes Day 2024, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB)’s Executive Director of Public Health, Philip Daniels, has released a report highlighting the prevalence of the condition across the region. Amongst the report’s findings is the stark statistic that the CTM area has some of the highest levels of people who are…
Most of the care in Wales is good care, with almost three quarters of care homes and home support services achieving ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ grades last year, according to the care inspectorate for Wales. The Care Inspectorate for Wales (CIW), which published its annual report for 2023-24 today, revealed that 3,106 (74%) of the grades…
Welsh housing associations could face bills totalling £50m after a Divisional Court ruled that rents need not have been paid during a period in which landlords withheld electrical condition reports from tenants, known in Wales as contract holders. Law firm Winckworth Sherwood’s housing management team, which acted for the defendant tenants, said the case focused…
Natural Resources Wales timber scandal ‘incompetence, not corruption’ NRW has had its accounts criticised by the Wales Audit Office three years in a row after it sold timber repeatedly without going to the open-market. The original contracts, made in 2014 and worth £39m to NRW, were awarded without tender to BSW Timber.24 Our environmental regulator,…
During the early hours of Sunday 16th February 2020, RCT received several calls fromresidents at Porth reporting the overtopping of the River Rhondda and Rhondda Fachand the ingress of water into properties. To the northwest of the investigation area, two culvert inlets associated to the NantLlwyncelyn Watercourse were identified as sources of flooding to 2…
Responding to the oral statement from Labour’s Housing Minister on building safety, Mark Isherwood MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Housing Minister, said: “While Labour claims progress is being made on building safety reforms, delays and gaps persist in protecting Welsh residents. “Despite warnings from the Grenfell Inquiry and the Auditor General’s Report, Labour’s delays are leaving…
Responding to her contribution during Spokesperson’s Questions to Labour’s Climate Change & Rural Affairs Minister, Janet Finch Saunders MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Climate Change Minister, said: “With the recent devastating flooding seen in Spain, we have to be prepared for the increased risk of severe flooding here in Wales and the destruction it causes. “Heavy…
Starmer has distanced himself from comments made by John McTernan, who was the ex-Labour senior adviser to Blair after he said “We don’t need small farmers” during a discussion about the fury among farmers towards the inheritance tax rises announced in the Budget. https://www.facebook.com/groups/263099203489067 Responding to former senior Labour adviser John McTernan saying “we don’t need small farmers”,…
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council systematically closing all its care homes it is cutting this service just like it is cutting almost every other service it provides. what do we pay our council tax for just to keep councillors in a job and a good pension at the end of it? Residents are reminded about the…
