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Delyth Jewell: ...will lie with Westminster. Westminster, which might shortly only boast 32 Welsh MPs, a 20 per cent decrease—a figure that I doubt is matched in any other example in the world in terms of loss of representation. Dirprwy Lywydd, when I was preparing for this debate, I found out that the last time that the number of Welsh MPs was changed to 32 was in 1832, the year of the Great Reform Act,...
Delyth Jewell: ...you'll agree, and it circumvents our democratic institutions. Not only is the Senedd excluded from decisions that will be taken in Whitehall, but the fund ties the success of community projects to representation made by MPs in Westminster, even as the UK Government cuts the number of Welsh MPs by a fifth. Surely, decisions made for Wales should be made in Wales. Given that England's...
Delyth Jewell: ...modern, vibrant Wales, which is why, as well as increasing the number of Members, we should take steps to encourage diversity in our membership. It is ironic that these calls for reform and better representation will be used by some groups as a means of entrenching the divide between politicians and their communities, to appeal to this nefarious sense of distrust in our institutions. It...
Delyth Jewell: .... Again, commitments have been made but they're non-binding. We don't believe that commitments promising a consultative role are sufficient and feel there should clearly be Welsh and Scottish representation on the new UK trade remedies authority. To conclude, Llywydd, Plaid Cymru cannot consent to an LCM that has the potential to constrain this Chamber's powers and deny our nation a...
Delyth Jewell: What representations has the Welsh Government made to the European Court of Human Rights in relation to the treatment of Abdullah Öcalan by the Turkish Government?
Delyth Jewell: ...that committee and the UK to ensure that this mechanism is not lost, and I hope that the Assembly endorses that recommendation too. We should, without doubt, be looking to maintain associate representation on the committee. It's dismaying that, to date, so much diplomacy has been trusted to the UK Government to do on our behalf. Wales needs to keep our voice heard loudly and clearly. We...
