Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the impact on (a) staff and (b) prisoner health and safety of the power cut affecting the HMP Berwyn estate in October.
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the emergency measures in place at HMP Berwyn in case of power outage.
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to prevent power outages at the HMP Berwyn estate.
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of prisoners housed in England were offenders with a fixed home address in Wales in (a) September 2023 and (b) each of the last three years.
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of prisoners housed in Wales were offenders with a fixed home address in England in (a) September 2023 and (b) each of the last three years.
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders with a fixed home address in Wales were housed in prisons in England in (a) September 2023 and (b) each of the last three years, by prison.
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders with a fixed home address in Wales were housed in English prisons during (a) September 2023, and (b) each of the last three years per prison.
Liz Saville-Roberts: I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this incredibly important debate. The figures from my local police force, North Wales police, are staggering: the number of hate crimes based on transgender identity has surged by 771%. When we bear in mind that it is likely that only one in 10 hate crimes are reported, that gives us a sense of the level of suffering and the sheer size of the...
Liz Saville-Roberts: HS2 is “going to benefit Wales, it’s going to benefit people in North Wales who will benefit from better access at Crewe to London.” That was the Secretary of State’s central argument for withholding billions of pounds from Wales by claiming that HS2 benefits us. Now that the link at Crewe is another casualty of Tory chaos, will Wales Office Ministers stay true to their own logic and...
Liz Saville-Roberts: We all know that the money that has been committed is illustrative. In a major boost to Plaid Cymru’s campaign, the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales has proposed devolving the Crown estate and reinvesting profits in communities through a sovereign wealth fund. The commission criticised the current system of wealth transfer from the poorest country in Britain to Westminster as...
Liz Saville-Roberts: The second largest prison in Europe is HMP Berwyn in north Wales. As of today, I understand that it houses 1,989 prisoners. Any solution to the well-documented problems of violence at HMP Berwyn since it opened six years ago is continuously undermined by the failure to retain staff because working conditions are so extreme. Will the Secretary of State recognise that warehousing offenders in...
Liz Saville-Roberts: On behalf of Plaid Cymru, I condemn the atrocities of Hamas. Our thoughts are with all the Israeli and Palestinian civilians killed, injured or bereaved in this horrific conflict. International humanitarian law exists for a reason: to safeguard all civilians, universally. Among the rights under that law is the right to water. Fuel is necessary for many people in Palestine to have safe...
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether laundry workers are eligible for the autumn Covid booster programme.
Liz Saville-Roberts: Three thousand job losses at Tata Steel will be a huge blow to Wales. Just as happened under Thatcher, our industrial communities are being forced to pay the highest price, and it is being paid by those who can least afford it. This news comes just weeks after the Minister’s Government failed to attract funding for offshore wind in the Celtic sea. The Tories have had more than 13 years in...
Liz Saville-Roberts: The Government’s excuse for denying Wales our fair share of HS2 funding is that the phase 2 connection at Crewe would cut journey times between north Wales and London. We can now only conclude that the Government are planning to scrap the phase 2 connection altogether. Welsh taxpayers are funding this fiasco and getting nothing back. Will the Minister admit that HS2 is an England-only...
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received a custodial sentence for assaulting (a) an emergency worker and (b) a police officer in the course of their duties in each year since 2019.
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of custodial sentence was for assaulting (a) an emergency worker, and (b) a police officer in the course of their duties in each year since 2019.
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful claims to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority have been made by serving police officers injured during the course of their duties in each year since 2019.
Liz Saville-Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the most common reason is for claims to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority by a serving police officer injured during the course of their duties not succeeding.
Liz Saville-Roberts: I rise on behalf of my party, Plaid Cymru, to pay tribute to John Benger for his commitment to this House. We are talking about four decades, and 36 years is a very long time in a workplace. He has served diligently and conscientiously, and during that tenure he has undoubtedly seen some of the highs and lows of parliamentary life. Sir John’s tireless work, whether through Brexit or the...