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A £542 gazebo, £1k chair, £3k flights, lapops, iPads and MacBooks, £78 on colouring pencils. the sums spent by Senedd Members on expenses One MS bought two MacBooks within two years at £1,200 each Want to keep up to date on Welsh politics?Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up and get political news sent straight to your inbox When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Members of the Senedd claimed £5.7m in expenses in the last Senedd term - with claims from a few pence right up to flights costing thousands of pounds.
Tackling child poverty is another key issue for this Senedd to address, Ms Jewell said. “We still have a situation where one in three children in Wales – and that’s even worse in some of our communities – live in poverty,” she said. “We need to stop that. There’s nothing inevitable about that needing to happen. “I will be considering it my mission to be holding the Welsh Government to account to make sure that we eradicate child poverty.” She stood against Hefin David for the constituency seat in Caerphilly, and although Mr David increased his majority, securing more than 3,500 more votes, Ms Jewell returned the highest vote count for Plaid in the area since the very first then-Welsh Assembly election.
In the regional election, voters chose from a list of parties to represent them. The South Wales East region includes the constituencies of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Monmouth, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen. The elected members for the region are Delyth Jewell and Peredur Owen Griffiths of Plaid Cymru and Laura Anne Jones and Natasha Asghar of the Conservative Party. Although Labour won 85,988 votes, the regional vote system takes into account constituencies won by each party within the region. Votes cast for parties which have won constituencies are effectively ‘worth’ less, and, as Labour won seven of the eight constituencies within South Wales East it is almost impossible for the party to win regional seats too.
Education minister Kirsty Williams has represented the Brecon and Radnorshire constituency for the Welsh Liberal Democrats since 1999, also serving as the party s leader in Wales for a total of eight years. She told the Senedd it had been a pleasure to serve in the Welsh Parliament, where members had built, and were continuing to build, a democracy fit for all the people of our nation . Independent MS Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas and Lib Dem MS Kirsty Williams hold positions in the current Welsh Government. The minister said there was honour in finding common ground for the common good across parties and policies .