Speeches by Davies.

“Is that Robert Jones in Gobowen? And it is all orthopaedics?”

“Your comments on how things are different digitally between England and Wales were interesting, and that came up in the prison report that we worked on. It seems incredible to me that, here we are in 2026, and we have not sorted this out yet. This should have been sorted out 25 years ago. Wherever you are from, whether…”

“That is really interesting, because Welsh Government waiting list figures are therefore not really accurate.”

“As health boards with less proximity to the border—the first three were on the border; you are a little bit further away—what are the main challenges in planning and delivering cross-border healthcare?”

“It would be good to have the people numbers too.”

“Thank you, Abigail. Phil is my local chief exec. It is lovely to see you here. Is there something that you would like to add?”

“Sorry, Suzanne, but I will move on to someone else, or no one else will have a chance to say anything, with all due respect. Paul, will you answer?”

“Yes. Say I went to the GP in Llandrindod Wells, and I needed to go to hospital in Hereford, Oswestry or wherever, how does it work?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. In my lifetime, technology has found its way into every corner of society. It has changed our workplaces, our classrooms and my farm, to be honest. It has brought real benefits, but also huge harms. One positive, of course, is that we can stay connected to …”

“Funnily enough, in the first 100 days of this Labour UK Government the Prime Minister cut winter fuel payments for vulnerable pensioners, whereas in the first 100 days of the Plaid Cymru Welsh Government, an extra £55 million is being invested in free childcare for parents. Does the Secretary of State concede that, unl…”

“May I ask about jobs? I appreciate that the Minister has answered a lot of questions about tariffs, but a lot of my constituents work in Trostre, which is in the constituency of the hon. Member for Llanelli (Dame Nia Griffith). We have talked a lot about the £2.5 billion steel fund. Nearly two years later, sites such a…”

“I am sure I will at some point, but I am not going there at the moment.”

“Looking back, I did not use my buddy to the extent that I could have done. That is simply because of lack of experience. He was great on the first day, and then I did not touch base until a week after, when he took me around again, after I had explored a bit more on my own. Mine was a staff member from the House, and h…”

“Yes, I think I would have done here, although we have a small pool of staff here with Plaid. We have six members of staff now and they were fabulous in fairness, but it is constituency work and casework that just did not get done, to be honest, for the first two or three months really. You tried very hard to get on top…”

“I am going to be perfectly honest with you: I did not think any further than election day. I do not know if everybody else was in the same situation, but that was mine. I wanted to get to election day, and then there was the realisation that I had actually been elected. I won the election, and then I started thinking, …”

“The only thing I would add is accommodation. As somebody who lives a four-and-a-half-hour train journey away from London, I found it very difficult that this place sorted out our accommodation for only two weeks, and that after that, we were on our own. As most of you know, we run a farm and a children’s nursery at hom…”

“IPSA is only there on a Wednesday. I have to tell you that I was a weekly visitor to that desk, every Wednesday, for a long time, until I found my feet. Somebody said to me—and I cannot remember if it is true—that of your two email accounts, the MP account had an out of office, but your private account did not. I canno…”

“I am Ann Davies. I am a Plaid Cymru MP for Caerfyrddin, which is in south-west Wales.”

“I totally agree with that. For me, the buddy system worked well in that first week. I would say as well, with regards to the induction, that I would really have appreciated revisiting that in three months’ time. I know that the general election was at an awkward time—it was at the beginning of July and then we were off…”

“For me, the IPSA buddy system was great; I had a dedicated person, Gina. I would have loved to have spent a day or afternoon with her, face to face, going through things like being an employer. As luck would have it, I had employed people before, so I had an understanding of that, but not everybody would. Coming from a…”