Pages tagged "coronavirus"

Making Welsh history and BAME history mandatory part of new curriculum would be “historic move”

Making Welsh history and the history of black people and people of colour a statutory part of the new curriculum would be a “historic move” Plaid Cymru Shadow Education Minister Siân Gwenllian MS has said. 

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100 Days of Lockdown in Wales – so what's next?

A hundred days ago, life changed forever. But what's next?

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United approach will keep us ahead of a second wave

Adam Price MS confirms his support of a non-partisan, four-nation approach to second wave coronavirus preparations, in a piece written for the Sunday Times

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Plaid calls on Education Minister to publish Covid mitigation action plan

Plaid Cymru’s Shadow Minister for Education, Siân Gwenllian MS, has called on the Education Minister to publish her Covid mitigation action plan.

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Calls for hospitality re-opening timeline "before it's too late"

Plaid Cymru Shadow Economy Minister, Helen Mary Jones, has called on Welsh Government to announce their intentions this Friday on timescales for the reopening of pubs and restaurants. The call comes after the Scottish First Minister today announced timescales for the reopening of pubs and restaurants in Scotland, leaving Wales as the only one of the 4 nations yet to do so.

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Health Minister’s Claims on Care Home Testing ‘Defy Logic’

Plaid Cymru demand an explanation over claims no deaths resulted from Welsh Government’s unexplained policy of sending untested residents to care homes from hospital

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Future of Welsh theatre “very bleak” without Government action says prominent theatre director

Swift action needed from Welsh Government to save Welsh Arts Sector

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Plaid requests clarification from UK Government Health Minister on PPE restrictions for dentists in Wales

Plaid Cymru MS and Shadow Minister for Health, Rhun ap Iorwerth, has written a letter to Matt Hancock asking for “urgent clarification” and warns of negative health implications for Welsh public if dentists are unable to source PPE

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A decade since austerity: A political choice that mustn’t be made again

Ben Lake MP, our Treasury Spokesperson writes how the political choice of austerity should never be repeated, a decade after it was introduced by the Conservatives in Westminster. 

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Systematic racism in Wales has to be tackled head on say Plaid as report finds “lack of action on race equality" to blame on disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities

Plaid Cymru have called for an in depth investigation into systematic racism in Wales with the view of establishing concrete recommendations on how it can be addressed

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