Better Mental Health Awareness

Yesterday, Fay Jones MP joined over 100 MP’s and Peer’s across the UK to support The APPG for Mentoring and The Diana Award’s ‘One Hour, One Young Person, One Parliamentarian’ mentoring campaign’ to mark National Mentoring Day 2020.  

Yesterday, Fay Jones MP held an Adjournment Debate on ‘Government Support for Women’s Rugby’ highlighting the growth of women’s rugby in recent years and the benefits of women participating in sport.

Fay Jones MP for Brecon and Radnorshire has today raised a mug in support of Macmillan’s Coffee Morning and is encouraging her constituents to do the same.

I would like to take this opportunity to praise the incredible work being done by health and social care staff throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. These have been incredibly challenging circumstances and they have worked tirelessly to save lives, for which we are all grateful.

Fay Jones MP, a group of local leaders, and Lloyds Banking Group joined forces last week to help protect mid-Wales communities from the evolving risk of fraud during the COVID-19 crisis. 

Speaking during an Urgent Question on changes to the licence fee exemptions, programming and job losses at the BBC, Fay Jones MP highlighted the misrepresentation of farming in recent BBC programming and the impact plans to charge over 75s for a TV Licence will have on her constituents.

On Monday 6th July, the Domestic Abuse Bill passed the final stages in the House of Commons with cross-party support, allowing the Bill to progress to the House of Lords. 

On Thursday 18th June, Fay Jones MP and Cllr James Evans met with Baroness Vere, a Minister at the Department for Transport, to discuss the planned closure of the Llandrindod Wells Driving Test Centre.

Across the border, Dental Surgeries in England have now started to reopen with appropriate levels of social distancing.

On Tuesday, Fay Jones MP spoke during the Second Reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill.