Sioned Williams MS Member of the Senedd - South Wales West

South Wales West MS, Sioned Williams, has backed calls for an inquest into the 2011 Gleision Mining Disaster that claimed the lives of four mineworkers.

Plaid Cymru MS for South Wales West, Sioned Williams has expressed her "disappointment" in the First Minister's "unsatisfactory" response to concerns raised about the Welsh Government's school reorganisation plans in the Swansea Valley. 

Plaid Cymru spokesperson on Social Justice and Equalities Sioned Williams MS today welcomed the new Co-operation Agreement between Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Government, which includes a key Plaid Cymru commitment to introduce free school meals for all primary school children. The Agreement also commits the Welsh Government to supporting the devolution of the administration of welfare – another key Plaid Cymru policy.

Sioned Williams MS - Plaid Cymru spokesperson for Social Justice and Equalities

Transgender Day of Remembrance is an annual observance that honours the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. Today I stand with my trans siblings in Wales and across the world who are abused, slandered and persecuted merely for the so-called ‘crime’ of being themselves.

Plaid Cymru MS for South Wales West, Sioned Williams, has urged the Deputy Minister for Climate Change, Lee Waters, to “significantly improve” current plans to construct the Swansea Bay and West Wales Metro as they “more or less completely ignore” the Swansea and Afan Valleys. 

Sioned Williams has called on the Education Minister to overturn Neath Port Talbot’s ‘contemptuous' decision to close three local primary schools.

Plaid Cymru Member of Senedd for South Wales West, Sioned Williams, has slammed Neath Port Talbot Council’s “undemocratic” decision to close three primary schools despite “overwhelming local opposition” to the plans.

Plaid Cymru’s spokesperson for Social Justice and Equalities, Sioned Williams MS, has today urged the Welsh Government to “act now" to mitigate Westminster cuts to Universal Credit, as the £20 weekly uplift in Universal Credit comes to an end.

Plaid Cymru MS Sioned Williams has welcomed plans announced by the WRU to strengthen female participation in rugby but has called on the union to fulfil the calls of 123 former Welsh internationals to improve support for women’s rugby.

Plaid MS Sioned Williams has welcomed the addition of the celebrated Pontardawe opera singer, David John Jones, known affectionately as ‘Dai Tenor’, to the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, following a successful campaign.