Elin Jones AM has called for electric charging points to be installed in all public car parks owned by Ceredigion County Council and supermarkets throughout the county.

Ben Lake MP is backing calls from the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) to end a vicious cycle which has seen survivability stagnate amongst the six deadliest cancers over the last decade.

Ben Lake MP met charity members of the LSCT in the House of Commons on 4 February to coincide with World Cancer Day.

The LSCT represents six ‘less survivable cancers’, lung, liver, brain, oesophageal, pancreatic and stomach, with an average five year survival rate of 14% due to a legacy of neglect and underfunding. The Taskforce aims to double the survivability of these cancers to 28% by 2029.

Stronger measures needed to protect Welsh farmers from cheap, low quality imports says Ben Lake MP

Plaid Cymru’s Ben Lake MP has called for stronger intergovernmental frameworks and a trade commission to protect food standards following the UK’s exit from the Common Agricultural Policy, ahead of a debate on the Agriculture Bill in the House of Commons.

Mr Lake, who represents the largely rural Ceredigion constituency, has called for stronger intergovernmental frameworks on agriculture, to replace the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy. This would ensure a level playing field across the four nations on issues such as financial support for farmers.

This week Ben Lake MP signed the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Book of Commitment, in doing so pledging his commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day and honouring those who were murdered during the Holocaust as well as paying tribute to the extraordinary Holocaust survivors who work tirelessly to educate young people today.

This year we are marking 75 years since the liberation of the concentration camps of Europe and the end of the Second World War. At the end of the month, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, people across the globe will remember.

Ben Lake MP recently attended a Parliamentary reception hosted by Macmillan Cancer Support to discuss their Save Our Support initiative, a campaign to ensure that every nation in the UK has a fully funded and sustainable cancer workforce in order to support the millions of people living with cancer across the UK.

The health service is currently facing a shortage of nurses which is having a damaging effect on frontline services and the care patients receive here in Ceredigion.There are nursing vacancies across the workforce and waiting times for cancer treatment and diagnosis are getting ever longer. Ben Lake MP is supporting Macmillan’s campaign to ensure that constituents in Ceredigion have access to the fantastic nurse specialists that will support them through a very difficult time in their lives.

1950s women pension campaigners in Ceredigion are to take their case to the House of Commons.

With the help of MP Ben Lake, members of Ceredigion Women Against State Pension Injustice (WASPI) will join WASPI members from all over the UK to run an information session for MPs at Westminster on 4^th March.

Newly re-elected Ceredigion MP Ben Lake has visited the headquarters of Wales-wide red meat body Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) in Llanbadarn, to receive a briefing on a range of food and farming issues.

Ben Lake MP asked HCC about its strategy for marketing Welsh agricultural produce over the coming year. With sustainability rising ever higher up the agenda, the MP heard about the body’s important forthcoming UK consumer campaign to promote the positive environmental credentials of Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef.

The discussion also took in potential future trade deals which the UK might look to strike with the European Union and third countries, as well as the newly-introduced Agriculture Bill. The Bill deals directly with the future of agricultural payments in England, however it is also relevant to Wales in terms of establishing the future shared frameworks which will ensure fairness between the four nations within the UK.

The beginning of this new decade is one of special celebration for Papur Sain Ceredigion Talking Newspaper. Its first edition of 2020 on 8 January reflects on and celebrates its first appearance in January 1970, 50 years ago as the Cardiganshire Talking Newspaper. It was the first ever in the whole of the United Kingdom. With 18 people receiving it initially; today it has 112 listeners who have various degrees of visual impairment.

Ben Lake MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament to celebrate the 50th anniversary and to recognise the impact of the Talking Newspaper on so many lives across Ceredigion and west Wales.

Ben Lake MP has today pledged their support for the Long Live the Local Campaign to help pubs in Ceredigion keep their doors open. Ben Lake joins the more than 240,000 people who have signed the petition so far, including 335 in Ceredigion alone.

Ben Lake MP is calling on the Government to cut beer tax at the Budget. With £1 in every £3 pounds spent in UK pubs going to the taxman, British drinkers now pay 40% of all beer tax across the EU, but drink only 12% of the beer. Seven in ten alcoholic drinks served in pubs are beer, underlining how directly a cut in beer duty will help pubs. Brewing and pubs in Ceredigion supports 1169 jobs and contributes £23.1m to the local economy.

Plaid Cymru has pledged to create a publicly-owned Welsh Broadband Infrastructure Company to guarantee access to full-fibre broadband to every home and business in Wales by 2025.

Ben Lake, Plaid Cymru’s candidate in Ceredigion, said that the current lack of connectivity is “restraining the rural economy in Wales, perhaps more than anything else”.