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Plaid Cymru to table amendment to Immigration Bill forcing review of British Citizenship for non-UK Covid health & social care workers

Plaid Cymru will table an amendment to the Immigration Bill that will force the British Government to consider giving non-UK health and social care staff the option of UK citizenship.

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Welsh Government urged to adopt “early treatment” strategy of Covid-19 patients

Plaid Cymru Leader Adam Price has today urged the Labour Welsh Government to ‘move quickly, and independently if needs be’ in adopting an early intervention approach in response to growing evidence it could improve outcomes for COVID-19 patients.

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Ben Lake MP “disappointed” after Agriculture Bill amendment on the standard of food and agricultural imports is rejected by the House of Commons

The UK’s new Agriculture Bill was put before MPs on Wednesday (13 May) for the final time as it reached the Report Stage and Third Reading.

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Welsh Government must show leadership for Welsh Universities

Plaid Cymru have called on the Welsh Government to show leadership and commit to a financial contingency fund for Welsh universities, after a report on the state of Welsh higher education showed that the sector is facing major challenges

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Welsh Government exit strategy “thin on detail” on ending community transmission says Plaid Leader Adam Price

Focus should be on “eradicating” new cases – not “managing them”

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PM must clarify to Tories difference between Wales & England guidance

Plaid Cymru Members of the Senedd and Westminster Parliament from the north of Wales have written to the Prime Minister calling on him to make clear to his party colleagues that they should not be promoting English public health guidance in Wales.

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Police Commissioners call to increase fines for those breaking lockdown rules - and powers to evict people from second homes

Two police and crime commissioners have criticised First Minister Mark Drakeford for not increasing fines for those found breaking lockdown rules.

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EXPOSED: How the Labour Government left Welsh health and care workers without critical PPE pandemic stock for nearly THREE YEARS

The Labour Welsh Government's pandemic stockpile went without a crucial piece of PPE for THREE YEARS, Plaid Cymru has discovered. 

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Welsh Government pandemic stockpile didn’t contain any surgical gowns prior to Coronavirus crisis - contrary to what the Health Minister said

The Welsh Government’s pandemic stockpile didn’t contain any surgical gowns prior to the Coronavirus crisis hitting Wales it has been revealed – contrary to what Health Minister Vaughan Gething told the public two weeks ago.

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“Absurd” that Welsh DWP workers must travel to England to get coronavirus test

The DWP has written to its staff in Wales to instruct them to drive to test centres in England if they exhibit COVID-19 symptoms.

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