Nia backs parents
Parents have come to me this week very upset by letters that their children have brought home from school. The letters threaten them with legal action if they take their children out of school to attend medical appointments. The...
MP backs more traffic calming
People often ask me if my work as an MP is what I had expected. Now, whilst I had a clear idea about national and international issues that Parliament deals with, and I realised that there would be Assembly...
Serious threats to campaigning groups
This week I have received a flood of emails from constituents who are quite rightly worried about the lobbying bill which is being hastily brought forward by the government for parliamentary debate this week. David Cameron was right to...
Reducing surface water flooding
Heavy downpours here in Llanelli often mean that excess surface water, coming off roofs and highways, overloads the sewerage system causing spills into the Burry Inlet. You may have seen the work that has recently started on Queen Mary...
MPs seek ministerial support for steel
Nia Griffith MP, secretary of the all-party steel group, has recently organised meetings for industry representatives and MPs from the cross-party steel group with Transport Minister Simon Burns MP and Business and Energy Minister Michael Fallon MP in order...
MP calls for ban on Killer Robots
Nia Griffith MP, Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Weapons and the Protection of civilians, will use a debate late on Monday 17th June to call on the UK Government to work with other countries on international...
Nia urges fresh start to save our bees
Nia Griffith MP accused the UK Government of being irresponsible and failing to take proper action to reverse bee decline in a debate in the House of Commons this week. Speaking up in the debate on the Environmental Audit...
‘Make sure Llanelli shares the gains’ says MP
In giving her enthusiastic backing to the Swansea Bay bid to be City of Culture in 2017, Nia Griffith MP for Llanelli has stressed the need to make sure that Llanelli is an integral part of the bid, so...
MP calls for rethink on legal aid changes
Nia Griffith MP has written to Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling MP, urging the Government to rethink the way it plans to introduce price-competitive tendering for criminal legal aid cases in England and Wales. The proposed reforms would see law...
Nia condemns plans to weaken ASBOs
Nia Griffith, MP for Llanelli and shadow Wales minister, is calling on UK Government ministers to keep the ASBO after figures obtained by Freedom of Information Requests show that 23,718 incidents of anti-social behaviour occurred in Dyfed Powys in...