Speeches by Davies.

“Diolch yn fawr, Mr Efford. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. It is well documented that Wales is being robbed of £4 billion in consequential funding from HS2. Now we learn that Welsh passengers will be robbed of their time, as trains travelling along the Carmarthen—Caerfyrddin—to London line could be c…”

“It matters not whether the community pharmacy is in Devon or my constituency of Caerfyrddin; drug tariffs, which put such a strain on our pharmacists, need to be reviewed, and an uplift is long overdue. Would the hon. Member agree that we need to highlight that financial shortfall to the Government, and that something …”

“Diolch, Madam Dirprwy Lefarydd. With deteriorating water standards while customers pay higher and higher bills, the water sector’s overhaul is no doubt overdue. Tougher restrictions on water companies that have paid eye-watering bonuses as untreated sewage flows into our rivers are welcomed. We have heard numbers from …”

“Before I ask my question, can I thank you for the visit we had last month? It was really informative and really interesting. Thank you very much for hosting us there. Following on from Claire’s question, mine is about healthcare and the fact that you have several elderly prisoners in Parc. They often have complex and i…”

“Mr Brockington, do you have any plans to increase the amount of healthcare resource available to cope with the average age of your prisoners? Additionally to the rooms issue and the needs assessment that has happened, do you feel that there is something else that you can do?”

“We have moved that nicely on to Mr Barrow, then.”

“Can I ask a follow-up on that? One thing that we discussed on the day was key performance indicators for the healthcare unit. There are not many that we can look at within Wales that have a similar situation to what you have in Parc, but there are across the UK. Is there a way we can use key performance indicators to s…”

“I want to talk about women prisoners. How can you ensure that the unique circumstances of Welsh women offenders are accounted for in the Women’s Justice Board and in the subsequent strategy that it intends to publish?”

“You mentioned Swansea. The Department announced in May 2022 that the residential women’s centre would open this year. Do you have any further updates? Are we going to wait for the justice system to get going before we have an announcement about Swansea and whether that is going to happen or not?”

“Let me thank the emergency services, Carmarthenshire county council, which is the local authority, and National Grid engineers for working tirelessly to help residents who were without power in Caerfyrddin. I also want to give a shout out to the farmers who helped clear the roads with their chainsaws. Given that many a…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“It is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I thank the hon. Member for Upper Bann (Carla Lockhart) for securing the debate. I declare an interest as a tenant farmer. Farmers in Wales feel threatened by the approach that this Government are taking to inheritance tax. It concerns me that that approach…”

“Picking up on what Ffion said, what we all need to remember is that, if we want a successful green energy project, be it a wind farm, a solar farm or a marine project, you have to bring the community with you. If everybody can crack that, most of the barriers fall away. Coming back to what you said, considering the ran…”

“I will just say that they cable plough in Denmark, where they have cable ploughed 400 kV, so it can be done.”

“I am co-chair of an anti-pylon group in Llanarthne, which is in Carmarthenshire.”

“My question is about community benefit. I will ask Joe and Ben this, but any of you should feel free to come in. Let us be frank—the days of community benefit, with companies sponsoring rugby shirts, for example, as much as that is appreciated throughout Wales, are over. We need tangible benefit for people and for comm…”

“You mentioned Denmark, which is really interesting to me, because Denmark undergrounds all of its cables—the 400 kV, the 275 kV and the 132 kV. The whole lot go underground. We are very aware at the moment that the Welsh Government, in fairness, have commissioned an independent advisory group, which is l…”

“Whoever fancies taking it—and everybody is quiet. It is a policy question. Mr Rossiter?”

“I am going to briefly come back on that. If you are agriculturally minded at all, cable ploughing is very much like mole ploughing—a cut in the ground and the cables are in. A kilometre a day can be done with favourable conditions. It is nothing like the traditional open-cut method, which I fully agree would probably b…”

“I absolutely take that on board.”