Cefin Campbell MS Mid & West Wales

Cefin Campbell, Plaid Cymru’s Member of the Senedd for Mid & West Wales has called on the Welsh Government to undertake an assessment of how many businesses in Wales have been overlooked by previous Covid-19 business support packages.

Plaid Cymru MS Cefin Campbell and Plaid’s Elwyn Vaughan have called on the Welsh Government to compensate landowners fairly in Newtown who have lost land to the bypass.

A recent visit by Plaid Cymru Senedd Member Cefin Campbell to meet the management team at the 500-acre Bluestone Resort in Pembrokeshire highlighted the challenges and opportunities faced by the tourism industry in West Wales. 

Plaid Cymru MS Cefin Campbell has called on the Welsh Government to bring forward plans to improve the safety of the A40 between Carmarthen and St. Clears.

Plaid Cymru Members of the Senedd Adam Price MS and Cefin Campbell MS have welcomed clarification by the Welsh Government that the Roads Review announced earlier this week will not include the Llandeilo bypass.

Local politicians have warned that rural Wales needs protections from speculative tree planting from wealthy business people and large multinational companies which risks supplanting Welsh agriculture. The politicians said that Welsh planning policy and agricultural support schemes weren’t resilient enough to protect Wales from increasing evidence of Welsh farm holdings being bought by speculators in order to plant trees. 

The economy and job creation in West Wales could be boosted by an alliance of local producers, suppliers, and the public sector, according to Plaid Cymru’s Cllr Cefin Campbell. He was speaking after a series of seminars attended by over 200 interested parties specifically looking at food and drink procurement.

Proposals by Carmarthenshire County Council to spend millions of pounds on regenerating rural communities has been welcomed by Cllr Cefin Campbell, the Plaid Cymru candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire in the Senedd election in May.

Dr Rhys Thomas has sacrificed his political ambitions in order to concentrate on his ground-breaking work in treating Covid patients. Dr Thomas, a former army medic with the rank of Lt.Colonel who served with distinction in several conflict zones, has been in the front line against Covid-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic.

Conservative and Labour government policies are having a devastating impact on Welsh farmers said Cefin Campbell, Plaid Cymru Candidate in Mid and West Wales.  At a time when the UK Tory government has slashed £137 million from the support for Welsh agriculture, the Labour Welsh Government plans to make the whole of Wales a Nitrogen Vulnerable Zone (NVZ), despite fierce opposition from farming unions.