The Welsh Labour Government has today published its budget which indicates sources of funding and allocations of funding, some details of which were released over the weekend. The proposals include protecting funding for the Supporting People grant thanks to an additional £10m budget allocation and a £30m grant to TATA to assist in the development

Following today’s announcement of a joint venture between Tata Steel and Thyssenkrupp AG to create the 2nd largest steel making entity in Europe, David Rees, Assembly Member for Aberavon, has this afternoon raised questions with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure, Ken Skates, regarding the future and sustainability of the plant at Port Talbot.

  David Rees AM for Aberavon has helped Macmillan Cancer Support promote the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, which is the charity’s flagship fundraising event. It’s the 27th year of Coffee Morning and David Rees enjoyed a cuppa and a slice of cake at the awareness event at the Oriel in the Senedd, as well as

Local AM David Rees yesterday joined local youngsters at the Welsh Labour Government funded summer school enrichment programme at Eastern Primary School in Taibach. Pupils also received a visit from Lee Trundle from Swansea City FC who took part in a sports session and encouraged pupils to get more active. £500,000 of funding has gone

David Rees AM is encouraging businesses in Aberavon to take advantage of smart technologies to help gain greater control of their energy use. Mr Rees is making the fresh appeal to businesses in his local constituency after attending an Energy Innovation Showcase, hosted by British Gas, part of Centrica, at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay

David Rees, Assembly Member for Aberavon welcomes today’s news that following negotiations with manufacturer Roche, Health Secretary Vaughan Gething has announced that breast cancer drug Kadcyla®, will be routinely available on the Welsh NHS. Roche has now agreed with NHS Wales the same commercial access agreement as NHS England. This means that Welsh patients with

David Rees, AM for Aberavon, welcomed the news that the Welsh Labour Government have announced funding for superfast broadband at several schools across Aberavon. These Schools are part of the 341 schools across Wales that will receive the funding. Currently all schools in Wales have minimum broadband connections of 10Mbps for primary schools and 100Mbps

I have now received a reply from the Welsh Government regarding the decision by the Westminster Government to site a new prison on Baglan Industrial Estate (see attached).  This leaves many questions that the Minister of Prisons in London has to answer as to why this site and not any of the others.  I am

Aberavon’s AM, David Rees, is calling for the Prisons Minister in the UK Government to answer his questions and come clean on the reasons as to why he selected the site in Baglan Industrial Estate for a new prison.  Following a request for information to the Welsh Government made by Mr Rees, he has now

Aberavon MP, Stephen Kinnock and Assembly Member, David Rees, wrote to Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah following the announcement on 22nd March of a new prison to be sited in Port Talbot, requesting information about the location and greater detail of the proposed prison. To their dismay the Prisons Minister failed to respond to their letter