Mr Brynmor John
Former MP for Pontypridd
Former MP for Pontypridd
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Does the right hon. Gentleman share my disappointment that the Queen's Speech contained no promise of legislation to impose tough controls on industrial polluters? Does he accept that, on the jobs front, our experience is that if firms want to produce, they will? If they do not, no amount of anxiety among local people about pollution will stop them. In the past nine years, no firm has ever...
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he expects to receive the first report from the new Welsh Language Board.
Given the discussions on the new Welsh Language Act and the wide consensus on what it should contain, will the Secretary of State place a six-month limit on the time in which the Welsh Language Board will report? Would it not be regarded as offensive if it were to continue indefinitely when the matters have already been discussed?
Former MP for Pontypridd
Entered the House of Commons on 18 June 1970 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 13 December 1988 — Died
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