2007 GCSE Success

Swansea West AM Andrew Davies celebrated a decade of devolution on the 10th anniversary of the ‘Yes’ vote for a National Assembly for Wales.

The AM said that ten years on Swansea was a better place to live thanks to Labour in the Welsh Assembly.

The benefits of devolution since the ‘Yes’ vote ten years ago include:
• 140,000 more jobs in Wales, unemployment in Wales is now lower than the UK average
• Free NHS prescriptions for all
• Free healthy school breakfasts
• 45184 Free bus passes for pensioners and the disabled in Swansea
• 4142 homes in Swansea have been helped to stay warm and save energy
• Free swimming for older people all year round and for kids in the school holidays
• Free entry to museums and galleries
• Doubling investment in the Welsh NHS, including 8,000 more nurses and shorter waiting times
• £630 million spent on improving school buildings plus there are 1,700 more teachers and primary class sizes are now below 30

Andrew Davies AM said:

‘’Devolution was hard fought and hard won having worked tirelessly to secure devolution for Wales through the YES campaign I am delighted looking back over the ten years since the vote people in Swansea West can see how the Assembly is working for them.

Thanks to Welsh Labour, hard working families are benefiting from more and better jobs and extra investment in schools and hospitals.

Local people are really benefiting from Wales's very own free bus pass scheme, the warmer homes grants, free prescriptions and free school breakfasts.‘’

Labour First Minister RHODRI MORGAN said:

‘’A decade of devolution has seen Wales grow up because the 'We Can Do It' spirit has taken over. All the public opinion polls since 1997 have shown clear and growing support for devolution because things are getting better.

More and better jobs, shorter hospital waiting times and a raft of initiatives to help everyone from the youngest child to the oldest pensioner have marked the difference between pre and post devolution Wales. Wales has changed, we’re making our own decisions and growing up as a nation.‘’