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If ever there was a need to get rid of an ‘extra, expensive and useless tier of government’ (the old chestnut once much loved by critics of the National Assembly) it is now. And the tier that should be in our sights is that which consists of Wales’s 40 Members of Parliament and some 48 [...]

Last week, Ieuan Wyn Jones, the Minister for Economy and Transport, stated his party, Plaid Cymru, was “calling for a fiscal stimulus during this recession – a stimulus targeted at real jobs in the real economy, not at banks, bankers, insurance companies and the City”.
With bankers such as Sir Fred Goodwin being vilified for their [...]

For many years the West Wales Business Initiative (WWBI) has expressed concerns about the economic policies of the Welsh Assembly, the size of the Public Sector in Wales and the consequent imbalance of the Welsh economy.

We have argued that the Assembly Government has channeled UK and EC resource into a rapidly growing Public Sector in Wales to the detriment of the private sector. Throughout the “so-called” good years of 1999-2007, when UK GDP rose significantly, the private business sector in Wales has declined. The opportunity to rebalance the Welsh economy was missed.

Last week, we saw the level of unemployment go over 2 million for the first time in over twelve years, with forecasters expecting it to hit 3 million by 2010.

Earlier at Welsh Questions I asked the Secretary of State, Paul Murphy, what he thought about the proposals  by the Assembly Finance Committee’s and the Labour Party in Scotland in their submission to the Calman Commission had any merit.  I was surprised to hear him say they had little merit and that the problem with borrowing is that [...]

During the last couple of weeks, politicians and pundits have been obsessed with the issue of Sir Fred Goodwin’s pension.

I thought I would take this opportunity to describe some of the work I am developing as Director of Research and Innovation at the University of Wales.

Last week, the United Nations declared that Welsh remained one of the world’s most endangered languages, despite the fact that there are over half a million fluent speakers according to the last Census in 2001.
This finding comes at a time when the Welsh Assembly Government has announced its intentions to apply for the transfer of [...]