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	<title>Bethan Jenkins AC/AM Blog</title>
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	<description>Plaid Assembly Member for South Wales West including  Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot and Swansea</description>
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		<title>From Record- question over benefits advice company</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/from-record-question-over-disability-advice-company</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a question that I asked during Business questions a few weeks ago in the Senedd. I hope to chase it up, as it is quite worrying if a company has been set up to take advantage of vulnerable people.
Bethan Jenkins:  My&#8230;concern relates to benefit entitlements. Cymorth Cymru has sent an e-mail to its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auditor General Resigns</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/auditor-general-resigns</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I HAVE just been informed that the Auditor General for Wales has resigned. A press statement went out this afternoon. The Public Accounts Committee (formerly the Audit committee) does not know the reasons why he has resigned.
Here is a statement issued by the Assembly:
&#8220;The Assembly has today (3rd February 2010) forwarded to Her Majesty the Queen the resignation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Date set for historical Referendum trigger vote</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/date-set-for-historical-referendum-trigger-vote</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT&#8217;S a truly historical announcement for Wales. Today, the First Minister and Ieuan Wyn Jones AM, Deputy First Minister for Wales, have announced a date for the trigger vote for the referendum.
It will take place next week, on the 9th of February. The Government will then write to the Secretary of State for Wales, and the process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest on Visteon pensioners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I WENT to another meeting of the former Visteon workers in the Swansea area on Wednesday night. As you may know, Visteon was a spin-off company of Ford, and when it went bust, Ford refused to provide ex-workers with the pensions they contributed to, for up to 40 years.
When Visteon was spun out of Ford, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan, Chilcot and the lessons we must learn</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/afghanistan-chilcot-and-the-lessons-we-must-learn</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I WATCHED Politics Show Wales today in sheer disbelief at the words coming out of Dai Harvard&#8217;s mouth on Afghanistan. I think I paraphrase when he said something like &#8220;It&#8217;s not a war. It&#8217;s about talking, and sorting things out&#8221;. So why send so many troops there if it&#8217;s all about negotiation and conversation?
My parents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t look back in anger, Peter</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/dont-look-back-in-anger-peter</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FURIOUS words from the Secretary of State for Wales aimed at Yours Truly in yesterday&#8217;s Western Mail.
As some of you will know, I&#8217;ve spent the last few months knocking on the doors of the mighty, asking if one of them will meet with a delegation of Visteon pensioners, the 700-strong group of men and women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Justice System</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/family-justice-system</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very pleased to blog about the fact that the Welsh Government has today launched a review, and has set up a panel to look in to how the Family Justice System works in Wales and England.
The terms of reference are below, as stated by the Minister with responsibility for this area, Gwenda Thomas.
I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog debate on Welsh Honours system</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago we received a petition to the petitions committee at the National Assembly for Wales calling for a Welsh Honours system. A web forum discussion was initiated online by the committee, but for many reasons it did not manage to spark debate- whether that was do to with how it was advertised, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work as usual at Assembly (despite snow!)</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/work-as-usual-at-assembly-despite-snow</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY New Year!
So here we are back at the Assembly. The snow hasn&#8217;t stopped ready for the Assembly start, but I am confident that we can try to continue our work as usual&#8230;
Obviously local authorities are concerned about the continuing levels of grit that they have for their roads, and being able to keep local schools open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grumpy Old Woman</title>
		<link>http://www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk/grumpy-old-woman</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bethan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess my New Year&#8217;s Resolution will have to be &#8220;I shall blog more often&#8221;&#8230; That&#8217;s if I can find the motivation to do it&#8230;
Only trouble is, I never usually make resolutions, though another of next year&#8217;s resolutions must be to win more seats for Plaid in the Westminster election. But I&#8217;d say that has [...]]]></description>
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