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…
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,…
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…
Responding to the latest Labour Welsh Government initiative to try to reduce the hospital discharge backlog, Welsh Conservative Shadow Health Minister, Sam Rowlands MS said: “My concern with Labour’s latest initiative is that it’s all aspiration and arbitrary targets with no additional financial backing or plan to increase social care capacity. “The Welsh Conservatives would…
Rhondda Cynon Taf Council Labour councillors voted against calls to reverse cuts to winter fuel payments. Newly elected MP for the upper Cynon Valley, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP Gerald Jones voted to cut your winter fuel allowance, I don’t believe the last MP for Cynon Valley would have followed the party line and put…
In just 100 days as First Minister, NHS waiting lists are at a record high, increasing for the seventh consecutive month, unemployment rates continue to rise. Next week (14th November), marks Eluned Morgan’s 100th day as First Minister of Wales, and what a disastrous 100 days it has been. Wales having the highest economic inactivity…
NRW enhances focus on key areas and core responsibilities Natural Resources Wales (NRW) will implement important changes to its structure, enabling it to sharpen its focus on areas where it can make the most meaningful impact for people and nature. Following extensive consultation with the Trade Unions and their members, alongside engagement with staff, NRW…
