Mark Drakeford: ...will be made available for apprenticeships. This is in addition to the £111 million announced in the draft budget for apprenticeships and traineeships. Llywydd, I’ve listened carefully to representations made directly during the consultation period. As a result, an extra £10 million revenue will be provided for a targeted rate relief grant scheme to help small businesses on the high...
Mark Drakeford: ...Wales register and postal or electronic voting, as well as a reduction of the voting age for local government elections to 16. I am also seeking views on the introduction of permissive proportional representation to enable principal authorities to choose to adopt either a first-past-the-post or single transferable vote election system now that the Wales Bill has completed its progress...
Mark Drakeford: ...the envy of Albania—one of the few European countries, he then pointed out, with which he did not have a pre-existing set of political contacts or relationships. By 2001, with the parliamentary representation of Cardiff West passed safely on to his close friend and adviser, Kevin Brennan, who I know is here this afternoon, Rhodri was free to concentrate on juggling just the political...
