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Mick Antoniw, Assembly Member for Pontypridd has welcomed the Welsh Government’s decision to site the £100 million state-of-the-art Metro depot facility in Taff’s Well on the old Forgemasters site. The site will service 36 of the new Metro vehicles that will operate services on the Taff Vale lines and eventually be the base for 400

Mick Antoniw, Assembly Member for Pontypridd and Chair of the Assembly’s Cross Party Group on Problem Gambling has welcomed the UK Government’s decision to reduce the maximum stake on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals to £2.  The move follows intensive campaigning at Westminster and the Assembly for the introduction of a maximum stake to tackle the

The £20m Air Quality Fund, which will run until 2021, will support local authorities to comply with nitrogen dioxide limits and improve air quality in their areas. The Environment Minister has also announced a consultation on plans for Clean Air Zones, designated areas where action is taken to reduce public and environmental exposure to airborne

Sports Minister Dafydd Elis Thomas was on hand to wish Team Wales Paracheer ‘Pob lwc’ ahead of the team flying out to the USA to defend their world championship title next week.  The Pontypridd-based team  won gold in the USA last year at their first attempt and were invited to the Assembly by local Assembly

E-Cycle’s Paul Sinnott and Wayne Roberts welcomed the Cabinet Secretary for Local Government and local Assembly Member Mick Antoniw to their Tonyrefail site on Monday to show-case the business’s cutting edge digital services. The Cabinet Secretary was visiting as part of the Valley Taskforce initiative, which is focused on increasing economic activity in valleys communities.

The six Town and Community Councils in Taff Ely, together with Pontypridd Assembly Member Mick Antoniw have united to produce a joint report on the future of Town and Community Councils.   Representatives from Llantrisant, Tonyrefail, Pontypridd, Taffs Well, Llantwit Fardre and Pontypridd Councils met recently to discuss and agree the joint report, which has

PROBLEM GAMBLING IN WALES TO BE SCRUTINISED BY CROSS-PARTY GROUP   A Cross Party Group on problem gambling will be established at the National Assembly for Wales tomorrow, with support from Assembly Members from Welsh Labour, Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives. The move follows the recent publication of the Chief Medical Officer for Wales’

Mick Antoniw AM is supporting University staff in their industrial action.  The following short statement was prepared for delivery in the National Assembly for Wales today, but not selcted for discussion: In Wales, we recognise the cultural, political, social and economic benefits of having world class universities. The University of Wales when it was established

Mick Antoniw, Assembly Member for Pontypridd has welcomed the Welsh Government’s plan to limit the development of leasehold houses, but has warned that it ‘only scratches the surface’ of the leasehold problem in Wales. The Welsh Government announcement, which limits the development of leasehold properties which quality for the Help to Buy scheme, follows a