Cyflwynwyd yr ymateb hwn i ymgynghoriad y Pwyllgor Biliau Diwygio ar Fil Senedd Cymru (Aelodau ac Etholiadau).

This response was submitted to the Reform Bill Committee consultation on the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill.

SCME148 Ymateb gan:  | Response from:  David L Williams
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Dear Sir or Madam,

I write to express my opposition in the strongest possible terms to this completely unnecessary and unacceptable additional burden on the already hard pressed taxpayers and citizens of Wales.

At a time when the constant refrain from the ruling parties of the Senedd is of savage cuts inflicted by Westminster there is absolutely no moral justification for such a vast increase in costs.  

Wales already has far fewer citizens per Senedd constituency than the UK has at Westminster.  These reforms will reduce that number still further to barely half.  There is no empirical evidence to suggest that this ‘reform’ will do anything to increase political engagement.  Indeed, the inevitable increase in costs and the likely consequential cuts in frontline services which this will bring about is likely to further disillusion the people of Wales.  

Yours faithfully

David Llewellyn Williams