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Welsh Labour calls on Cairns to go over trial sabotage candidate

Christina Rees MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, commenting on BBC evidence that Alun Cairns knew about Ross England’s involvement in rape trial collapse, said: “There are no two ways about this – Alun Cairns has been caught brazenly lying about how much he knew of Ross England’s appalling…

£130 million funding boost for Wales

Welsh Labour Ministers have injected a further £130 million of funding in key capital projects, underlining confidence in Wales. This is the second round of capital funding as part of the Wales Infrastructure Investment Plan (WIIP) this year. In June, an extra £85 million was announced to help support Wales…

Number of jobs increased faster in Wales than the UK between 2017 and 2018

Latest statistics show that there were 1.45 million jobs in Wales in 2018, the highest since records began. The stats also showed that job numbers increased more quickly in Wales than the UK as whole between 2017 and 2018. Between 2017 and 2018, total workplace employment in Wales was…

Green light for BEACON project boosts Wales’ bio economy

The Counsel General and Brexit Minister, Jeremy Miles, visited Aberystwyth University today to open the new Bio-refining Centre and Seed Biobank buildings at the University’s Innovation and Enterprise Campus. Mr Miles, who is responsible for EU funding in Wales, announced a £3.7 million EU investment to extend the award-winning…

Renewables generated enough electricity to meet half Wales’s needs in 2018

Renewable energy sources generated enough electricity to meet half of Wales’s needs in 2018, a new report has revealed. Last year the equivalent of 50% of the country’s electricity consumption, a rise from 48% in 2017, came from renewable sources as the country continues towards ambitious targets for clean…

£4 million EU funding boost for 5G research in Wales

Wales is set to become a global leader in 5G technology following the announcement of a new Digital Centre of Excellence, supported by nearly £4 million EU funds. The Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Centre of Excellence at Bangor University will provide highly specialised research into digital communication systems like…

“Neither Nationalism nor Populism will secure Wales the future it deserves”, Mark Drakeford AM

Mark Drakeford AM delivered his Keir Hardie Lecture in Merthyr Tydfil last night. Below is the full transcript. Thank you very much for the invitation to give the annual Keir Hardie lecture here in Merthyr this evening. Particular thanks to Dawn Bowden for helping to make it happen. I’m…

£2.6 million EU investment to bring jobs and businesses to the Rhondda Valleys

Counsel General and Brexit Minister Jeremy Miles, who is responsible for EU funding in Wales, has today announced £2.58 million EU funding to develop new business premises near Llantrisant in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Mr Miles said: “The Coed Ely business development will sit at the gateway to the Rhondda…

Black History Month | October 2019

Join the discussion at our #BlackHistoryMonth events. We have fantastic speakers like Vaughan Gething AM, Gaynor Legall, Chisomo Phiri and many others: ✊🏽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Institutionalised racism in Wales: https://events.labour.org.uk/event/279704 ✊🏽♀️ Black women in the Welsh workplace: https://events.labour.org.uk/event/279708

Social partnerships to bolster fair work in Wales

A new cross-government approach to improving working life in Wales has been outlined by the First Minister. Speaking in the Senedd today, Mark Drakeford announced the key principles which will create a “more equal, fair and just Wales” with fair work at its core. The ‘social partnership’ approach will build…

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