The Government has told councils to ‘step up’ efforts to provide permanent homes for Afghan refugees, having served legal notices to quit to those still in hotel accommodation. Councils have raised concerns families would be made homeless ahead of the first of the notices, which are due to take effect at the end of the month. Veterans…
The Welsh Government has today announced that it is unlikely to recover a whopping £7.35m that it had spent on a failed racetrack project in Ebbw Vale. Welsh Government officials have confirmed that there was little chance of recovering this £7.35m from the now insolvent company behind Circuit of Wales. Commenting on the news, Leader of…
With residents across Wales facing an average council tax hike of 5.5%, whilst councils are holding around £2.75bn in useable reserves, in the Senedd yesterday, the Welsh Conservatives held an opposition debate calling for council tax to be kept as low as possible. Shadow Local Government Minister Commenting after the debate, Welsh Conservative Shadow Local…
This is just a small amount of money that the welsh government has used or not? Lisvane land It was “incomprehensible” that the Lisvane land “was sold by the walsh government to SWLD at an agricultural land value of £1.835m not the housing value of “at least £39m” in 2012. M4 Lets not forget the…
Welsh Councillors accused the Welsh government of “cart-before-horse planning” for public transport The money simply isn’t there to keep all the current services running Waters speaking about public transport MS Deputy Minister for Climate Change told the Senedd, the money simply isn’t there to keep all the current bus services running. But leave the car…
The latest Welsh employment figures have revealed that employment fell 33,508 in 2022. Completing the Labour Government’s hat-trick of failure, the figures also show a 6,301 rise in unemployment and an increase of 36,378 people who are economically inactive. Commenting, Welsh Conservative Leader, Andrew RT Davies MS said: “The latest employment figures are bitterly disappointing,…
Labour politicians, including the first minister, have voted for a Welsh Parliament motion criticising their own roads review. Commenting following the Welsh Conservative debate today, Welsh Conservative Shadow Transport Minister, Natasha Asghar MS said: “By voting for our motion in the Senedd today, Labour have admitted that their road review was flawed. They have voted…
Gordon Brown and the Future of the Welsh Constitution “Stale” and “Irrelevant.” An apt way to describe Labour’s latest attempt at constitutional meddling. Those aren’t my words. Those are the words of one Senior Labour MSP just last week describing Gordon Brown’s Commission on the future of the United Kingdom. Not only is this a…
Commenting on his exchange in the Senedd today during questions to the Minister for Finance, Welsh Conservative Shadow Finance Minister, Peter Fox MS said: “Today I asked the Labour Minister for Finance for some clarity on where the money was coming from to put forward new, supposedly unaffordable pay offers for our teachers and NHS…
