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Plaid Cymru MS for South Wales Central

Entered the Senedd on 6 May 2021

Recent appearances

• 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: Disaggregated Justice Data 3 Dec 2024

  I agree with you, Cwnsler Cyffredinol, and the Ministry of Justice agrees with us. Back in 2017, a working group from the Ministry of Justice said that it is important to have disaggregated Welsh data, and that’s been echoed by politicians here, by committees here and in Westminster. In fact, the Equality and Social Justice Committee inquiry into women’s experience of the criminal justice...

• 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for Delivery: School Exclusion Appeals 3 Dec 2024

  Thank you very much, Cwnsler Cyffredinol. If we went this afternoon to the youth court in Cardiff or Swansea, I can guarantee you that we'd meet youngsters who had been excluded from school. It's well documented, the impact that long-term school exclusion can have on young people entering the criminal justice system. Now, I was disappointed, and I mentioned this to the previous Counsel...

• 1. Questions to the First Minister: Youth Justice System 3 Dec 2024

  Brif Weinidog, as you've heard from the previous questions, the availability of data is crucial to improve the justice system here in Wales, and due to the lack of published disaggregated Welsh data, we've been totally dependent on the tireless work and the freedom of information requests of Dr Robert Jones from the Wales Governance Centre. Now, however, at the end of November, the Ministry...

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