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Former Plaid Cymru MS for Mid and West Wales, Former Plaid Cymru MP for Ceredigion

Entered the House of Commons on 9 April 1992 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 10 January 2000 — Resigned

Entered the Senedd on 6 May 1999

Left the Senedd on 2 April 2003

Also represented Ceredigion; Ceredigion and Pembroke North

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Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — Transport Bill 20 Dec 1999

  I would like to say a few words about the way in which the Bill will affect Wales—and from the perspective of a Member of the National Assembly for Wales. I shall concentrate specifically on rail. The Assembly recently debated the Government's legislative programme, and an amendment stating: the Assembly … calls on the First Secretary and the Secretary of State to seek to ensure that all...

• Orders of the Day — Transport Bill 20 Dec 1999

  Should not the authority be obliged to listen carefully to what is said by the Welsh Assembly about the needs and priorities of services in Wales? What mechanisms will the Secretary of State introduce to ensure that it does so?

• Agriculture 28 Oct 1999

  The Minister mentioned energy crops and I have made the point before that there is an anomaly in the situation in which arable area payments can be converted into support payments for energy crops, but livestock payments cannot. That is discriminatory between sectors, and also between regions and parts of the UK. Is not that wrong; will he undertake to put it right; and how long will it take?

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