Autumn Budget as it Relates to Wales

Debate between David T C Davies and Geraint Davies

Wednesday 7th February 2018 General Committees

[Geraint Davies]

Thank you, Mr Hanson. I will be brief, so I will speak in English. I say in passing that my mam-gu—my grandmother—had to wear the “Welsh Not”, which was introduced after the Blue Books. Children were required to pass on a “Welsh Not” to a child who spoke Welsh. They were beaten at the end of the day, and she was beaten at the end of every day because she was very religious and did not want to pass on the “Welsh Not”.

I thought I would also mention, on the centenary of women’s suffrage, an Emily—not Emily Davison or Emmeline Pankhurst, but Emily Phipps. She was one of the 17 women who stood 100 years ago, and she was in fact from the Swansea area. She hid in a cave in the Gower to avoid the census, as a protest.

[David T. C. Davies]

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

[Geraint Davies]

I am very short on time, but I will give way.