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icWales (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones said the all-night negotiations that led to a deal had ensured that Wales could carry on calculating the Single Farm Payment on its present historic basis until 2013, enabling farmers to plan ahead with confidence about the size of their payment.
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Rural Studies (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Ceredigion’s Elin Jones AM has welcomed the announcement that the tenants of Ceredigion County Council’s housing stock have voted in favour of transferring the ownership of their houses to the new Tai Ceredigion housing association. 58.3 per cent of tenants voted in favour of the proposal and the transfer will take place within a year. As a result of this decision, the Welsh Assembly...
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ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Translation of a post by Vaughan Roderick: Damn, Elin Jones could give lessons to Geoff Boycott on keeping a bat straight. In a news conference today the minister succeeded in rejecting every attempt to suggest that there are tensions within the government regarding the fate of the housing LCO. In a series of answers the minister managed to say no more than that discussions were continuing...