AMs support call for better support for rape and sexual assault victims
(Title Image: pxfuel.com, copyright free) The Motion The Senedd: Notes increased reports of rape in EnglandandWales and expresses sympathy and ...
Tag: Independents
Whatever happened to the heroes?
(Title Image: garethjones.org) This week's short debate was led by Mick Antoniw AM (Lab, Pontypridd) on the subject of celebrating ...
Senedd Bites #87: AM set to be suspended as a councillor for four months for misbehaviour
(Title Image: via Senedd TV) AM provisionally suspended as councillor for four months Neil McEvoy AM (Ind, South Wales Central) ...
Welsh Government Media Investment Fund has lost more than £9million to date
(Title Image: BBC Wales) In a letter to the Public Accounts Committee and Culture Committee (pdf), Deputy Minister for Culture, ...
Review of the Year 2019
(Title Image: pixabay.com, copyright free) The draft Welsh budget for 2020-21 is due to be published next Monday but, after ...
AMs call for quick thinking and quicker actions against the deadliest form of cancer
(Title Image: Scientific Animations Inc. under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-4.0) The Motion The Senedd: Recognises that one in four people ...
Senedd requests further work on measures to improve lobbying transparency
The Motion (Final/Amended Version) The Senedd: Notes it's the only national legislature in the UK without a lobbyist register. Calls ...
AMs back call for more work, but no targets, to prevent children from being taken into care
(Title Image: ITV Wales) The Motion (Final/Amended Version) The Senedd: Welcomes the Ministerial Advisory Group's first Annual Report on the ...
Senedd “not the place” to introduce a workplace parking levy
(Title Image: © Copyright Jaggery and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-2.0) Yesterday, Jenny Rathbone AM (Lab, Cardiff ...
Neil McEvoy’s covert recordings “included confidential evidence” regarding complaint against himself
(Title Image: via Senedd) Before this afternoon's plenary session, the Llywydd and the Chair of the Standards Committee issued statements ...
Covert recordings in the Senedd are “a breach of trust”
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War memorials “should be granted greater protection”
(Title Image: Welsh Conservatives) It was the Leader of the Opposition, Paul Davies AM's (Con, Preseli Pembs.) turn to lead ...
Minister: Homelessness can’t be addressed without reform to the local housing allowance
(Title Image: BBC Wales) It seems there was a strong housing theme to Senedd's debates this week, culminating in the ...
Senedd Bites #79: Youth Parliament calls for life skills in the curriculum
(Title Image: National Assembly of Wales) Life skills needed in school curriculum to avoid producing "A* robots" The Welsh Youth ...
Senedd gives new Brexit deal a thumbs down (for now)
(Title Image: Washington Glass School) Look, I'm fed up with it. You're probably fed up with it. Politicians seemingly can't ...
UK Government “should take the lead” on Rojava and Catalonia response
(Title Image: MSN.com) Here are the highlights from this afternoon's international affairs and culture questions. Only 12 Welsh-medium teachers have ...
Best of the Blogs #77: Calling them out
(Title Image: iPredator via Flickr, Copyright Free) Carolyn Hitt in The Western Mail on why women should call out abusers ...
Extension to prisoner voting “by 2022”
(Title Image: Daily Post) Yesterday, the Senedd debated the Communities Committee report on prisoner voting, which controversially recommended that the ...
Run, Rhianon, Run
(Title Image: Gareth James licenced for reuse under Creative Commons Licence BY-SA-2.0) The first short debate of the new term ...
Weaknesses in draft international strategy picked apart
(Title Image: Generic Drift) Draft international strategy "a PR exercise" Delyth Jewell AM (Plaid, South Wales East) took exception to ...
Senedd: Boris Johnson’s suspension of UK Parliament is a “constitutional outrage”
(Title Image: Reuters via thenational.ae) Events in London have conspired to overtake them, but earlier this afternoon the Senedd was ...
End of Year Report 2018-19
(Title Image: National Assembly of Wales) So ends another Senedd parliamentary session and, as is tradition, I finish with my ...
Creative Wales “coming soon” as AMs debate film & TV inquiry
(Title Image: BBC Wales) Yesterday, the Senedd discussed the Culture Committee's report on film and television production in Wales – ...
Senedd Bites #71: AM withdraws bid to re-join Plaid
(Title Image: via Senedd TV) Neil McAvoy withdraws bid to re-join Plaid Cymru Neil McAvoy AM (Ind, South Wales Central) ...
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