The Herald (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The wholesale closure of Scotland's west coast waters, as proposed by the European Commission, can be avoided, UK Fisheries Minister Huw Irranca-Davies said yesterday.
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
In Parliament this week, Nicholas Hurd MP asked the Waterways Minister Huw Irranca-Davies: … what payments British Waterways (a) has made in the last 12 months and (b) is contracted to make to Cavendish Public Affairs; and for what purposes....
Ming Campbell MP (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife Sir Menzies Campbell today (Thursday) successfully obtained an assurance from UK Fisheries Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies MP, after his intervention during the annual Fisheries debate in the House of Commons, that in the forthcoming negotiations in Brussels the Minister would take account of the threat to the village based [...]
Glamorgan Gazette (icWales) (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Ogmore MP Huw Irranca-Davies said: “We’ve never seen much of the Tories in the valleys, so I will be pleased to show off the area to Ms Spelman, inform her of how our communities came together to survive the ravages of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
On the eve of the British Waterways Annual General Meeting, fancy announcing the appointment of a new Waterways Minister! Huw Irranca-Davies MP has got a great website, very inclusive. It says: His new brief will include policy areas such as...
Valleys Mam (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Wayne David replaces Huw Irranca-Davies at the Wales Office. Huw's reward for his on-message blogging is promotion to DEFRA, Wayne is replaced as Welsh Whip by Mark Tami from Alyn and Deeside. His job as assistant whip goes to Ian Lucas of Wrexham. Kevin Brennan is promoted to the Cabinet Office and Chris Bryant gets his first ministerial job as deputy leader of the House of Commons. Caerphilly MP...
David Cornock's other blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Gordon Brown's government reshuffle continues. You didn't expect the PM to take Sunday off, did you? Welsh angles so far: Wayne David replaces Huw Irranca-Davies at the Wales Office. Huw's reward for his on-message blogging is promotion to DEFRA, where his views on hunting might please the odd farmer. Wayne is replaced as Welsh Whip by Mark Tami from Alyn and Deeside. His job as unpaid assistant whip...
Andrew Nutt (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
The career minded young Labour MP’s in Wales are running scared with the possibility of losing their well-paid champagne life styles in Westminster. MP’s like Huw Irranca-Davies who was told that being a MP is a job for life, they didn’t expect the Welsh people and their own AM’s would cry so loud for more powers and parity with Scotland so soon. How very wrong they were, Forget London and stand for...
Welsh Ramblings (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
According to today's Wales on Sunday , Wales office Minister Huw Irranca-Davies has pledged to challenge Plaid over its commitment to independence. While the comments are hardly surprising coming from a unionist party, the fact that the comments come from him is slightly significant. The junior Minister is the person responsible for piloting LCOs (or Welsh Laws) through Westminster, so his entire working...
icWales (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
LABOUR needs to raise its game and challenge Plaid Cymru over what Welsh independence would mean in practice, Wales Office Minister Huw Irranca-Davies said last night.
icWales (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
LABOUR needs to raise its game and challenge Plaid Cymru over what Welsh independence would mean in practice, Wales Office Minister Huw Irranca-Davies said last night.
Guerrilla Welsh-Fare (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
There were two really odd reactions to some of the talk that emerged from Plaid’s conference in Aberystwyth. As Amlwch to Magor notes, I have no idea where Huw Irranca Davies is coming from with his response to Ieuan Wyn Jones’ Westminster predictions? Ieuan Wyn Jones is saying that the Tories are the favourites to win the next election and that will be bad for Wales. What part of that does Huw believe...
ORDOVICIUS (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
According to Huw Irranca-Davies, Plaid Cymru need to 'get back to reality'. This is not going to happen, for the simple reason that Mr Irranca-Davies' version of 'reality' is the private property of the Labour MP for Ogmore. In Huw's fluffy little world Labour is way ahead in the polls and destined to be in power forever; any talk among the other parties of the Tories getting in is tantamount to
Wales Office (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Wales Office Minister Huw Irranca-Davies was in North Wales today to meet with business leaders to discuss how the UK Government’s policies will help to steer the economy and the people of Wales through the global downturn. Speaking at a meeting of CBI Wales at Airbus, Broughton, Mr Irranca-Davies said: “These are very challenging times for [...]
Wales Office (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Wales Office Minister Huw Irranca-Davies today visited the Mountain Bike Centre at Glyncorrwg Ponds, Port Talbot, which is home to some of the worlds most demanding mountain bike trails. The Mountain Bike Centre is the latest tourist attraction to open at Glyncorrwg Ponds, which is set amidst the Afan Forest Park and offers visitors a range [...]
