I want to write to James Evans
James Evans: ..., Minister. In our national parks, it is vital that local people feel that they are part of the decision-making process, and that the national parks actually stand up for them and that they have representation from that area. The Welsh Government appoints a number of people to national parks, but, unfortunately, some of those people aren't even from Wales. So, what I would like to see is a...
James Evans: ...you and left-wing academics and think tanks think we don't have enough resources. Your excuses for political expansion just don't cut the mustard. You say that the people of Wales need more representation to get things done. Let's just see how much representation we're going to have in Wales: thirty-two paid Members of Parliament, 96 paid Members of the Senedd, 1,242 paid county...
James Evans: ...dismayed to see that some of the appointees to the national park didn't even reside within the park boundary, and some of them were not even residents of Wales. And there was also a serious lack of representation from different backgrounds, such as young people, LGBT and BAME. And I always I do wonder how people who aren't from a community, who do not represent the diversity in that...