Welsh Liberal Democrats

SeneddSeventh Senedd Sixth Senedd

Seats at the end: 1; of 60 on 6 May 2026
When the Senedd first met: 1; 12 May 2021
Leader: Jane Dodds
Share of contributions: 1.2%; 1,761 speeches and questions
Voting cohesion: Not measured with one Member
Voted with the government: 58%; 541 of 931 votes

Members at the end of the term (1)

Jane Dodds
Mid and West Wales
Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats

How the party votes

It voted the same way as the government in 541 of the 931 votes where both took a side.

Votes where the party split

The party's Members have voted the same way in every vote so far.

Voted against the party majority most often

No Member has voted against the majority of the party.

A vote for when most of the party voted against, or the reverse. Abstentions are not counted either way. These are the same figures as on each Member's page.

What the party talks about

The share of the party's speeches and questions that touched each brief, next to the share for the whole chamber. Briefs the party raises more than the chamber as a whole come first.

Childcare
Welsh Liberal Democrats: 3.1%Whole chamber: 0.98%
Poverty and the cost of living
Welsh Liberal Democrats: 9.5%Whole chamber: 4.4%
Policing and justice
Welsh Liberal Democrats: 5.1%

Recent speeches and questions

The most recent, spread across the party's Members so that one long session doesn't fill the list.

Jane DoddsLib Dem
4 March 2026Plenary
Group 2: Targets for Teachers and Assessors of BSL (Amendment 2)
I will just be making one contribution to this Stage 3. I would like to place on record my thanks to Mark Isherwood for his perseverance and tenacity in bringing this Bill here today. And I would like to say how much of a privilege it was to sit on the Equality and Social Justice Committee, where we…
Official Record
Jane DoddsLib Dem
4 March 2026Plenary
Group 1: BSL: National adviser, advisory panel and complaints (Amendments 1, 14, 10, 12, 13, 15)
Thank you so much for taking the intervention. As you know, I sit on the Equality and Social Justice Committee and supported Sioned in terms of this particular area—that is, about the system of complaints. You touched on it slightly there, which is that we have a huge community here who find it so…
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Jane Dodds

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