Welsh Assembly loses 100 jobs over past three years
Friday 4th March 2011, 5:59PM GMT.
More than 100 full-time Welsh Assembly jobs have been lost in Mid Wales in the last three years, it was revealed today.
The jobs have gone at offices based in Machynlleth, Montgomery, Newtown and Welshpool, according to information obtained by Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates.
Mr Bates said the figures were “worrying” and said it was a sign of the Welsh Assembly’s “dwindling commitment” to Montgomeryshire. He has written to the First Minister
He said: “I am criticising the Labour-Plaid Government for its dwindling commitment to Montgomeryshire, after discovering figures which show a huge decrease in the number of Welsh Government employees in Montgomeryshire since 2006.”
He added: “The number of jobs has desperately declined from 185 full-time equivalent Welsh Government employees in 2007, to just 84 in 2010. That is a significant decline in just three years.”
A Welsh Assembly spokesman said: “The mergers programme in 2006 significantly increased Welsh Assembly presence in Montgomeryshire.
“Staff based in Machynlleth re-located as part of a new Assembly Government building development in Aberystwyth.”
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I read somewhere that the Welsh Assembly employs something like 6000 people at a great cost to the nation. Surely any reductions should be welcomed.
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