Press Releases - 2012
December
Welsh MPs meet Welsh Secretary on Steel redundancies (18/12/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis MP and Nia Griffith MP this evening led a delegation
of cross –party Welsh steel constituency MPs in a meeting with Rt Hon David
Jones, Secretary of State for Wales on the recently announced steel redundancies
and the future of the industry in Wales.
Aberavon MP meets
Remploy Minister (18/12/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has today met with Minister for the Disabled and
Remploy, Esther McVey MP.
MP and AM Visit
Baglan Remploy Plant to Show Support (07/12/2012)
Aberavon’s MP, Dr Hywel Francis, and AM, David Rees, visited the Remploy plant
at Baglan in their Constituency today. In a joint statement Dr Francis and
Mr Rees said,
MP and AM
urge local Remploy talks (06/12/2012)
Aberavon’s MP and AM, Hywel Francis and David Rees have called for urgent talks.
Aberavon MP attacks
Chancellor’s Autumn Statement as unfair to families and women (06/12/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis is critical of the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
because it is unfair to families and women.
MP backs Visteon
Pensioners (05/12/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has spoken in Parliament in support of Visteon
pensioners.
MP welcomes University
planning success (05/12/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has welcomed the decision by Neath Port Talbot
County Borough Council to approve Swansea University’s proposed new Science
and Innovation Campus at Crymlyn Burrows.
MP backs Leveson
Report (04/12/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has called for a legal framework within which
the press should operate.
MP Welcomes Councillor
Success (04/12/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has congratulated new Labour Councillor Mike Harvey
of Coedffranc North on his work in improving the back lane of Woodland Road
of Skewen.
November
Aberavon MP calls
for meeting with PM on steel crisis (28/11/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has won support for an early meeting with the
Prime Minister on steel redundancies.
MP calls on Welsh
Office to back steel industry (26/11/2012)
Aberavon’s Labour MP Dr Hywel Francis has called on the Conservative Welsh
Office to follow the lead of the Welsh Government in setting up a task force
to back the Welsh steel industry.
MP Warns Government
on Steel Redundancies (23/11/2012)
Aberavon MP, Dr Hywel Francis, has warned the UK Government that it needs to
do more to protect the Welsh steel industry.
MP honours Richard
Burton (15/11/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis recently spoke of the importance of remembering
and honouring Richard Burton whom he called Wales’ greatest actor.
AM and MP Welcome
Station Redevelopment (07/11//2012)
Aberavon’s AM, David Rees, and MP, Dr Hywel Francis, have welcomed the announcement
that Port Talbot Parkway Railway station will be upgraded with over £9.5 million
of funding from the Welsh Government.
October
MP welcomes
Burton Diaries back to Port Talbot (25/10/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis will tomorrow co-host the launch of the Richard
Burton Diaries at Port Talbot.
MP backs disability
and employment project (25/10/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has hosted a major exhibition in Parliament promoting
better employment opportunities for young adults with Down’s Syndrome.
Mynydd Brombil (17/10/2012)
Following a meeting with representatives of the developers, Aberavon’s two
Labour representatives, Dr Hywel Francis MP and David Rees AM, have both
re-iterated their opposition to the application for a wind farm development
in Port Talbot.
AMs and MPs back
Tata (09/10/2012)
A delegation of South Wales Labour AMs and MPs and Labour MEP Derek Vaughan
have given their full backing to Tata’s commitment to steel making in Wales.
September
Aberavon MP Welcomes
£90 million Funding Boost for Swansea University (21/09/2012)
Aberavon MP, Dr Hywel Francis, has welcomed the news that Swansea University
has secured £60 million funding from the European Investment Bank as well as
£30 million of funding from the Welsh Assembly which will go towards its ambitious
expansion plans.
AM and MP welcome
Minister’s action (11/09/2012)
Aberavon AM David Rees and MP Hywel Francis have welcomed Welsh Education Minister’s
decision to call for the re-grading of some English GCSE examination papers.
MP challenges
coalition policy on carers (10/09/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has challenged the Conservative – Lib Dem Government
to support the extension of rights for carers.
August
MP welcomes outstanding
GCSE results (23/08/2012)
'I warmly congratulate all the GCSE students in my Aberavon constituency.'
July
Callous threat
to disabled workers by Government (11/07/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has deplored the Conservative – led Government’s
announcement on the future of Remploy in the House of Commons on 10th July.
Dr Hywel Francis
MP champions carers again (10/07/2012)
Aberavon MP, Dr Hywel Francis joined forces with eleven other MPs and Carers
UK to sponsor Barbara Keeley MP’s new piece of legislation designed to help
identify and boost support for the 5 million carers across England.
Dr Hywel Francis
MP for Aberavon hears Holocaust survivors speak on Holocaust Memorial Day
2013 (10/07/2012)
Dr Hywel Francis MP was honoured to attend the launch of the theme for Holocaust
Memorial Day 2013, Communities Together: Build a Bridge.
MP and AM
seek reassurances on Hospital Future (09/07/2012)
Aberavon MP and AM Dr Hywel Francis and Mr David Rees have held a meeting recently
with senior NHS officials from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Trust on the
future of Neath Port Talbot Hospital.
MP and AM welcome
support for new Lido (09/07/2012)
Aberavon’s Member of Parliament, Dr Hywel Francis and Assembly Member, Mr David
Rees have welcomed the growing constructive public debate on the future of
the Afan Lido.
MP holds meeting
on Hospital future (04/07/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis is holding a meeting this week with local NHS
officials on the future of Neath Port Talbot Hospital.
June
MP welcomes Tata
reassurances (26/06/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has welcomed Tata’s announcement today that the
rebuild of Number 4 blast furnace is still on schedule.
MP to lecture
on 1926 (26/06/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis will give a free public lecture at Cymmer in the
Afan valley in his constituency next Friday evening 29th June at 7.00pm.
MP re-launches
book on Spain (25/06/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis is launching a new edition of a book on the Spanish
Civil War which he first published in 1984.
MP welcomes Lido
consultation (25/06/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has welcomed Neath Port Talbot Council’s four
week consultation on its new plans for the Afan Lido.
Aberavon MP backs
new Carers Bill (18/06/2012)
Dr Hywel Francis MP for Aberavon has announced in Carers Week that he will
be a sponsor of a new Bill for carers.
May
Local AM and MP
express their disappointment at Wind Farm decision (08/05/2012)
David Rees AM and Hywel Francis MP have expressed their disappointment at the
news that the Pen-y-Cymoedd Wind farm development has been given the go-ahead
in spite of the concerns of residents.
April
Aberavon MP salutes
Lord Ashley’s life of service (23/04/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis who worked closely with Lord Ashley for over a
decade on the rights of the disabled and of carers mourns his passing.
MP welcomes Tata
£800 million investment (16/04/2012)
Aberavon’s MP Dr Hywel Francis Labour has warmly welcomed the Tata announcement
of major investment of £800 million in Wales over the next five years.
March
Aberavon MP welcomes
the super fast broadband boost to Port Talbot (20/03/2012)
Dr Hywel Francis Labour MP for Aberavon has welcomed the BT development of
providing super fast broadband to Port Talbot.
Aberavon MP asks
Parliamentary questions on Remploy (15/03/2012)
Dr Hywel Francis MP for Aberavon asked Secretary of State for Wales, Rt Hon
Cheryl Gillan for a statement on whether she has had discussions with other
ministers, the Welsh Government, trade unions and disability groups on the
future of Remploy factories in Wales.
MP visits Remploy
Plant (08/03/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis will visit the Baglan Remploy Plant in his constituency
on Friday.
Aberavon MP
Condemns Remploy closures (07/03/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has deplored today’s announcement by the Conservative-Lib
Dem coalition to close two-thirds of Remploy factories.
MP welcomes CAB
merger (07/03/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has welcomed the merger of local Citizen Advice
Bureaux.
February
MP Backs New Safety
Bill (08/02/2012)
Aberavon MP Dr Hywel Francis has given his support to a Bill which gives greater
protection to building workers.
January
MP calls for public
involvement in Boundary Commission consultation (11/01/2012)
‘These proposals by the Boundary Commission will reduce the number of Welsh
MPs by a quarter and for this reason alone they must be opposed.’
