Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:45 pm on 14 February 2023.

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Photo of Adam Price Adam Price Plaid Cymru 1:45, 14 February 2023

Three quarters of all public transport journeys in Wales are made by bus, but buses get a fraction of the investment currently earmarked by the Government for rail. Cutting that funding further at a time of falling passenger numbers and rising costs will decimate the bus network; it will disproportionately disadvantage women, children and young people, the elderly, the disabled, workers on low incomes and rural and Valleys communities. Cutting subsidy to bus transport in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis is among the most regressive acts you have ever proposed. Will you meet as a Government with a delegation of my Plaid Cymru colleagues—even the Llywydd may want to wear her constituency hat on this one—to reverse your decision and extend the bus emergency scheme for 12 months so that we can protect the existing bus network while we design and build the better, fairer, greener transport network that even the Deputy Minister says you want to see?