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Gilfach Goch community councillors back universal credit campaign
The seven community councillors on Gilfach Goch Community Council decided at the January 2025 meeting to unanimously back the Guarantee our Essentials campaign around Universal Credit.
We received a delegation from the campaign and were very struck by the evidence and stories they shared with us of the awful hardship caused to people who rely on an inadequate level of Universal Credit.
We have learnt from this campaign that benefit recipients in the Rhondda & Ogmore constituency receive, on average, £30 less each week than they need to live.
We wrote by email on 8 February to all local elected representatives calling on them to back the campaign to ensure justice for people who are often the most disadvantaged and left behind. We told them we’d publicise the replies we received.
Replies as of 17 March:
Westminster parliament
Chris Bryant MP (Labour) – no reply
Senedd
Huw Irranca-Davies MS, Deputy First Minister (Lab) "Reply received on 11 April explaining that Universal Credit is not devolved and setting out what the Welsh Government is doing to encourage benefits claims. It does not address our request that the Deputy FM support the Guarantee our Essentials Universal Credit campaign."
Regional Members of Senedd – South Wales West
Luke Fletcher MS (Plaid Cymru) – fully supports
Altaf Hussain MS (Conservatives) – no reply
Tom Giffard MS (Conservatives) – no reply
Sioned Williams MS (Plaid Cymru) – no reply
RCT Council
Cllr Aurfron Roberts (Labour) – fully supports.
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Community Emergency Information Resource Pack
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The persons whose names appear below were duly elected Community Counillors without a contest.
Hendreforgan Ward - Daljinder Athwal & Elizabeth Price
Gilfach Goch Ward - Joan Abbott & Richard Price
Garden Village Ward - Andrew Draper, Julie Rees & Allun Warren
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Copies of Minutes from previous Council meetings are available to view online on the Meeting Minutes page. They are also available to download together with copies of Meeting Agendas and various other Community Council documents on the Council Documents page.
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