OPPOSITION leader Nick
Bourne AM this evening announced a mini shadow cabinet reshuffle of the Welsh Conservatives’ frontbench Assembly team.
South Wales West AM Alun Cairns has been appointed
Shadow Local Government Minister replacing Monmouth AM Nick Ramsay who moves to
finance.
Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire AM Angela Burns is
given a post as Shadow Transport and Regeneration Minister on top of her
chairmanship of the Assembly’s finance committee. All other portfolios remain
unchanged.
Local Government Settlement bad news for taxpayers
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Commenting on the revenue settlements for local authorities,
announced, this morning by the Local Government Minister, Tory AM has condemned
the amount of funding provided and calls the settlement bad news for council
tax payers.
Local Government Minister, Brian Gibbons, this morning
outlined the amount of funding the Welsh Assembly Government will be providing
councils across Wales.
The increase in funding is well below inflation and amounts to a cut in funding
for local authorities.
Commenting on the statement by the Welsh Regeneration
Minister, which created a new Strategic Regeneration Area in North Wales, Tory
AM Alun Cairns
has said that the Government has clearly abandoned Porthcawl.
Regeneration Minister, Leighton Andrews, announced
that Rhyl and Colwyn
Bay have become a
Strategic Regeneration Area, joining the Heads of the Valleys, however Porthcawl
has missed out.
School bus safety plans rejected by Assembly Government
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
COMMENTING on the outcome of the Learner Travel Measure vote in the National Assembly this evening, Alun Cairns AM led the debate for the Welsh Conservatives said:
“This is bitterly disappointing. The Assembly Government has sold pupils and parents short.
“The amendments tabled were to make sure that all children were taken to their school of choice in the safest possible way.
