The Party of Wales Arfon Standing up for the people of Arfon

Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Arfon Hywel Williams and Assembly Member Siân Gwenllian have warned that farming communities in north Wales face a ‘perfect storm’ of destabilising and sweeping cuts to their incomes as the Welsh Labour government push ahead with controversial plans to scrap basic farm payments.

Siân Gwenllian AM welcomes the news that Gwynfor Coaches is to take over the running of the no.88 Llanberis service to Caernarfon from Monday, 24th of September after Arriva decided not to continue the service. Arriva will still be running the service on Sundays.

Barbara Bus Gwynedd has opened a new base at Ceris Newydd Nursing Home, Treborth offering an invaluable service to wheelchair users who cannot use public transport and have no other means of getting out and about.

Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Arfon, Hywel Williams and Welsh Assembly Member Siân Gwenllian have joined forces with local business owners in Arfon calling on the Welsh Labour Government to overhaul the small business rate relief scheme so that businesses with a rateable value of £10,000 or less are exempt from paying the tax.

Following a visit to a farm near Rhostryfan in the Arfon Constituency, the Assembly Member for the area says the Welsh Government must offer urgent financial assistance to farmers facing difficulties in producing food for their animals. This follows this year’s extreme weather conditions that has limited crop and food-stock production.

The school holidays are well underway, bringing with them ‘holiday hunger’ – where children who usually receive free school meals find it difficult to get enough to eat during the 6 week summer break. Many families fall back on food banks to keep them going at this time of year, with The Trussel Trust – an anti-poverty charity – calling for more public donations to be made in view of this increased demand.

After the Labour Welsh Government confirmed that they would not bring new Welsh language legislation forward over the next year, Plaid Cymru have called on them to act at once to realise the ambition of a million speakers by 2050 and to act on the support the Welsh language has from the people of Wales.

The Plaid Cymru Assembly Member for Arfon, Sian Gwenllian, has called for balance in the planning system to ensure that it does not favour large developers at the expense of local needs and community sustainability.

Plaid Cymru have called for an ‘overlying strategy’ to tackle the Welsh “digital language divide” after it emerged that the Labour Welsh Government has only spent £185,000 over the course of five years to develop Welsh medium digital technology.

Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Arfon, Hywel Williams has given his full backing to a campaign to tackle anti-social behaviour and drug taking on the Maes in Caernarfon.