Royston Jones ( Jac o' the North)has posted the following petition to the Assembly: We call upon the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to address the flawed system for allocating social housing in Wales. At present, a person who has never visited Wales can qualify for social housing ahead of someone born and bred in Wales. This is due to the points system giving preference

Welsh Assembly Government - This Statistical Bulletin shows a breakdown of some headline school statistics by Assembly Constituencies in Wales.

Last year, this blog discussed proposals by the Welsh Assembly Government to introduce legislation to suspend the ‘right to buy’ for council house tenants in Wales. This was to be one of the first ‘Legislative Competence Orders’ which would, under the 2006 Government of Wales Act, essentially give Wales the power to pass its own laws, albeit after seeking permission from th...

Constitutional confusion is jeopardising the quality of democracy in Wales, warns Dafydd Elis-Thomas , Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales. Here, he claims the Welsh Assembly Government is in urgent need of a new name

Today, in the National Assembly for Wales, Plaid Cymru tabled the following motion for debate; "This Assembly notes the concern raised in Wales by individuals, organisations and public protests relating to the military action taken in the Gaza Strip". If we ignore the issue of whether this is an appropriate motion for debate in the National Assembly for Wales, I can accept this as a reasonable mot...

A Labour Assembly Member has called on the Welsh Assembly Government to utilise the same imaginative and collective approach it is using to address Wales' economic woes, to help boost investment in Welsh innovation. Wrexham's AM, Lesley Griffiths, wants the Government to convene an all-Wales Research and Development Summit - bringing together all relevant organisations in the country - t...

Excellent to see that the ruling parties at the Assembly are still committed to a referendum. I was buoyed a few weeks back by this exchange at the Assembly. Helen Mary Jones: Will the First Minister give an update on progress towards a referendum on full law-making powers under Part 4 of the Government of Wales Act 2006? The First Minister: The All-Wales Convention will report to the Assembly Gov...

WITH just a few months to go a General Election, all eyes – even in Wales – are on Westminster. Yet the next few months in Cardiff Bay promise to be just as interesting and decisive because the agreement that ended the impasse after the Assembly 2007 elections and which has held the Welsh Assembly Government together for over two and a half years now faces unprecedented challenges. That these ...

Ann Jones AM has today called on the Welsh Assembly Government to consider the creation of a Museum of People's History for Wales. In a question to the Assembly Government's Heritage Minister, the Vale of Clwyd AM spoke of the need to properly recognise the extraordinary history of ordinary working class people in Wales. The trade union, ASLEF has campaigned for a museum of people's...

BBC Wales' Political Editor, Betsan Powys has just been on Dragon's Eye to report on developments with the Welsh Assembly Government's Affordable Housing LCO. In essence the Assembly Government asked for the power to suspend the right to buy, but the order they submitted went further than that and also gives them the power to abolish it in Wales if they wish. The Welsh Affairs Commi...