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National Assembly for Wales The National Assembly for Wales has announced a £13m project to improve the Cambrian rail network between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury by December 2008. 10-Aug-2007 The National Assembly for Wales is in discussions with Stratospheric Airship Technologies of Malaysia about proposals to develop an airship manufacturing facility at RAF St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, which could create up to 1,500 jobs. 08-Dec-2006 The National Assembly for Wales is to invest almost £300m in improvements to frontline hospital services in Wales over the next financial year. 19-Oct-2006 The National Assembly for Wales has agreed a deal with HBG UK, Interserve Health Wales and Laing O'Rourke to design and build new hospitals over the coming years. 20-Jul-2006 The National Assembly for Wales has offered £10m of support to the Project Kimber consortium to set up a £50m factory to produce versions of the Smart two-seater car in South Wales, with the creation of an initial 150 jobs. 20-Jul-2006 National Assembly for Wales is to relocate about 100 tourism, transport and enterprise jobs to a new site in Llandudno Junction in spring 2008. 20-Mar-2006 National Assembly for Wales is considering proposals for the £45m restoration of the Montgomery Canal in mid Wales, which could create up to 100 jobs. 09-Feb-2006 National Assembly for Wales is providing financial support to Contact Centres UK to set up a new financial services and legal call centre in Bridgend, with the creation of 50 jobs. 04-Nov-2005 National Assembly for Wales has announced a £1.9m funding package to expand recycling and composting facilities at the Bryn Pica landfill site in Aberdare. 27-Oct-2005 National Assembly for Wales is to provide a grant to Greenwood Services to build a £1m materials recycling facility at Grove Quarry near Bridgend, with the creation of 25 jobs. 13-Oct-2005 The National Assembly for Wales has unveiled the site for a new office for 500 staff at Parc-y-Llyn in Aberystwyth, with about 200 staff relocating from Cardiff in 2008. 18-Aug-2005 The National Assembly for Wales is providing financial assistance to Communications Direct for the creation of 120 jobs at new mobile telecoms sales operations in Cardiff and Swansea. 15-Mar-2005 The National Assembly for Wales is to set up regional offices for more than 1,000 staff in Llandudno Junction and Aberystwyth over the next three years, with 300 of the jobs being relocated from Cardiff. 25-Feb-2005 The National Assembly for Wales has announced a £50m package to improve rail services in the Wales & Borders franchise, including an extra 14 trains. 28-Jan-2005 The National Assembly for Wales has announced a £2.4m grant to go towards the Sustainable Fisheries Programme, which is led by the Environment Agency Wales and aims to develop new destinations for fishing holidays. 23-Dec-2004 The National Assembly for Wales has awarded a £2.5m grant to EnviroWales to help build a car battery recycling plant in Ebbw Vale by 2006, with the creation of 128 jobs. 17-Dec-2004 National Assembly for Wales is to invest £7bn in a new 15-year transport plan, including subsidised local air services and a new motorway toll road near Newport. 08-Dec-2004 National Assembly for Wales has awarded a £0.2m grant to Overhall Aerospace to establish a new factory to produce aircraft interior equipment in Llanelli, and up to 50 jobs will be created. 19-Oct-2004 National Assembly for Wales has provided a regional selective assistance grant to a new consumer credit company called Picture Financial, which will set up a headquarters for 70 staff at the Celtic Lakes Business Park in Newport. 15-Jul-2004 National Assembly for Wales is considering plans to take control of the Welsh Development Agency, Wales Tourist Board and training organisation Elwa by April 2006, which could involve the transfer of up to 1,500 jobs. 15-Jul-2004 National Assembly for Wales is to relocate hundreds of jobs to new regional offices in Conwy, Aberystwyth and Merthyr by the end of 2007. 12-Mar-2004 The National Assembly for Wales is to transfer hundreds of civil service jobs to North and Mid Wales by the end of 2007, and is expected to identify two suitable sites by spring 2004. 12-Dec-2003 The National Assembly for Wales is in private negotiations for the development of two car factories in Wales, with one said to involve the production of up to 500 luxury cars a year under the name of Zircon. 10-Nov-2003 The National Assembly for Wales is to provide a further £10m to increase capacity for orthopaedic services in the Gwent and Cardiff NHS Trust areas over the next two years. 06-Nov-2003 The National Assembly for Wales is to invest £22m in projects that will encourage recycling and cut down on waste, in order to help councils meet recycling targets. 03-Sep-2003 The National Assembly for Wales has approved plans for work to re-start on the construction of its new £55m headquarters at Cardiff Bay. 02-Jul-2003 The National Assembly for Wales has approved plans for the £60m refurbishment of the Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in Bodelwyddan, including four new wards. 28-May-2003 The National Assembly for Wales has announced plans for the £30m regeneration of Newport, and has set up a new company called Newport Unlimited to co-ordinate the development of houses, offices and parks. 27-Mar-2003 The National Assembly for Wales is to spend £2.5m improving facilities at 47 Welsh rail stations over the next 12 months. 06-Mar-2003 The National Assembly for Wales is to set up a regional office at the Rhydycar Business Park in Merthyr Tydfil, with the creation of 320 jobs. 05-Mar-2003 The National Assembly for Wales has announced a £10m investment package to improve orthopaedic services across Wales, including an increase in capacity and additional specialist registrar training places. 27-Feb-2003 The National Assembly for Wales has launched the Llandarcy Urban Village Project, which aims to transform a former oil refinery near Neath into an urban village with the creation of 3,500 jobs over a 25-year period. 13-Jan-2003 The National Assembly for Wales is to help fund the development of a new cancer research laboratory in Wales, as part of the Welsh Translational Research Centre, but details have not yet been finalised. 20-Nov-2002 The National Assembly for Wales has arranged £16m of funding for the development of a £45m Bluestone holiday village near Narbeth in Pembrokeshire, which will create up to 600 jobs. 14-Nov-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is to provide £3m of funding to put an unnamed medieval ship on permanent display, once it has been lifted from its resting place on the river front in Newport. 27-Aug-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is planning a £100m investment in high-speed internet services, in order to provide broadband access to 310,000 Welsh homes and 67,000 companies. 11-Jul-2002 The National Assembly for Wales has announced a £3.6m European grant for Selonda UK to develop a £19m halibut farm in a disused Anglesey quarry, including on-site fish processing plant, commercial-scale marine hatchery and the creation of 55 jobs. 09-Jul-2002 The National Assembly for Wales has outlined plans for the creation of 8,700 new healthcare jobs in Wales over the next eight years, including nurses, consultants, general practitioners and other professionals. 21-Jun-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is said to be in discussions with a group of companies operating under the name of Email4all about plans to set up an internet-based rival to the Royal Mail, and a data centre with 300 staff could be established in the Treforest and Nantgarw area. 14-Jun-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is supporting plans for the development of a clinical school of medicine in Bangor by 2004, incorporating Bangor University, Ysbyty Glan Clwyd at Bodelwyddan and Wrexham hospital. 02-May-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is considering plans from Celtic Offshore Wind for the development of a £150m offshore wind farm at Abergele, near Colwyn Bay. 27-Mar-2002 The National Assembly for Wales has pledged to relocate 400 jobs from Cardiff to other parts of Wales over the next five years, in order to decentralise its offices. 04-Mar-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is to provide £7m of finance for a £15m project to reopen a passenger railway line between Ebbw Vale and Cardiff by 2004. 01-Feb-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is to provide £31m of funding for the development of a £104m opera house in Cardiff by autumn 2004, built by Sir Robert McAlpine. 24-Jan-2002 The National Assembly for Wales has announced a £130m boost for public transport to add to the previously-announced five-year programme, including five new road schemes. 23-Jan-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is set to award a £5m grant to Advanced Transport Systems of Bristol for the development of a driverless taxi cab system in Cardiff, which could lead to a £45m project if trials succeed. 18-Jan-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is providing a £1.2m grant to MCS for the development of a £7m compact disc factory at Ystradgynlais in the Swansea valley, which will create 77 jobs. 20-Dec-2001 The National Assembly for Wales is looking into the possibility of relocating a number of offices and hundreds of civil service jobs from Cardiff to North Wales. 22-Nov-2001 The National Assembly for Wales is to invest £18m in speeding up the installation of broadband internet technology over the next six months, with the money going to Welsh schools, colleges and local authorities. 25-Oct-2001 The National Assembly for Wales has announced plans to provide £40m of funding for 100 health projects across Wales, including primary care, mental health and acute hospital services. 19-Oct-2001 The National Assembly for Wales has terminated the contract of the architect on the construction of its new headquarters in Cardiff Bay, and the £27m project may now be scrapped. 18-Jul-2001 The National Assembly for Wales has given the go-ahead for the development of a £23m community hospital in Merthyr Tydfil over the next five years. 09-Jul-2001 The National Assembly for Wales is to invest up to £40m in local authority waste recycling projects over the next three years. 18-Jun-2001 The National Assembly for Wales has awarded £1.3m for the creation of 112 new jobs at six companies in Tredegar and Ebbw Vale, including Universal Batteries, Dambi, Yajima, Newpress Plastics, Eastern Choice Ingredients and M&J Europe. 13-Jun-2001 The National Assembly for Wales has announced a £20m package for GP and hospital care across Wales, and target areas are thought to be cancer and heart services and improving staff recruitment. 11-Apr-2001 The National Assembly for Wales has allocated £7m to Pembrokeshire & Derwen NHS Trust to provide services when St David's Hospital in Carmarthen closes next year, and a new 28-bed mental unit is expected to be built on the site. 30-Nov-2000 The National Assembly for Wales is supporting plans from a new farmers' co-operative called The Welsh Meat Company to set up two meat processing plants at Horeb in Ceredigion and at Caernarfon in Gwynedd. 08-Nov-2000 The National Assembly for Wales is to award £6.4m towards the redevelopment of the former Dunlop Semtex factory at Brynmawr in the Gwent Valleys into a £35m retail and housing complex. 28-Aug-2000 The National Assembly for Wales is planning a £3m programme of support for the automotive components industry, in order to improve supply chains between parts manufacturers and buyers and invest in training and efficiency schemes. 07-Jul-2000 The National Assembly for Wales is to help fund a new factory being set up in Bangor by Cycle Citi of Taiwan, which will produce up to 350,000 units a year and create 160 jobs. 23-Jun-2000 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007