Leanne Wood Assembly Member for the Rhondda

Plaid Cymru’s Shadow Minister for Social Justice and Housing, Leanne Wood AM, said: “Today’s figures which show that deaths from drug misuse are at an all-time high are a damning indictment of the so-called ‘war on drugs’.

The Rhondda AM has discovered that the Labour First Minister has given her the wrong information about toilet facilities on new trains for the Rhondda.

The Rhondda AM has welcomed the news that a bridge will reopen to traffic later this year.

“This is yet more damaging evidence that the justice system of England is not working for Wales,” said Leanne Wood AM, Plaid Cymru’s Shadow Minister for Housing and Social Affairs, following the publication of Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre report on sentencing and imprisonment in Wales.

The Rhondda AM has congratulated a local organisation after they obtained a quarter of a million pounds from a successful funding bid.

The Rhondda AM has written to the Welsh Education Minister about the lack of support for pupils on the autistic spectrum.

Rhondda AM Leanne Wood has congratulated RCT’s newest councillor following a big swing to Plaid Cymru in a local by-election.

Reacting to the news that £216,513.39 has been spent on new signs after the second Severn Crossing was renamed, Rhondda AM Leanne Wood said: “To spend almost a quarter of a million pounds on signage after a bridge renaming that nobody asked for or was told about beforehand is absurd, wasteful and ill-judged; especially when we are losing so much because of austerity cuts.

The Rhondda AM has secured a commitment from the Labour Government in Wales to continue with a consultant-led Accident and Emergency at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in “the future.”

The AM for the Rhondda has backed calls for a Clean Air Act to be introduced in Wales.