2022 in Wales

Events from the year 2022 in Wales.

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Incumbents
For United Kingdom incumbents, see 2022 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

Events
  • 1 January – The 2022 New Year Honours List includes Olympic sportswomen Hannah Mills (OBE) and Lauren Price (MBE). Chief Medical Officer for Wales Dr Frank Atherton receives a knighthood, and Professor Julie Lydon becomes a Dame.[6]
  • 14 January – First Minister Mark Drakeford announces that COVID restrictions in Wales are to be eased, following a fall in case numbers, and the country will move gradually towards level zero.[7]
  • 21 January – At a press conference in Cardiff, Mark Drakeford makes an outspoken attack on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for failing to take appropriate precautionary measures against COVID-19. Drakeford suggests that Johnson's government is trying to protect Johnson's position by distracting attention from his record[8]
  • 10 February – The Welsh Government announces that social care workers in Wales will receive a one-off £1000 payment in April.[9]
  • 14 February – The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe, proposes that a four-day working week be trialled by the Welsh Government.[10]
  • 16 February – The Welsh Government announces a payment of £1,600 per month for young people leaving care when they turn 18.[11] The Welsh Conservatives say it is "a waste of money".[12]
  • 23 February – Two members of the Welsh Parliament, Adam Price and Mick Antoniw are reprimanded by the UK Foreign Office for visiting Ukraine.[13]
  • 27 February – Four children are rescued from rocks in the River Rhondda by a coastguard helicopter.[14]
  • 12 March – At the start of the Welsh Labour Party conference in Llandudno, Mark Drakeford criticises the UK government's response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying: "This is a government which worries about the human rights of oligarchs but the Home Secretary sends exhausted refugees on a European hunt for a bureaucrat willing to accept their visa application." It is the first Welsh Labour conference to be attended by Sir Keir Starmer in his role as UK Labour leader.[15]
  • 30 March – Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis states that he is suffering from gender dysphoria, and claims that he left the scene of a road accident the previous November because he was "not OK" after being raped two months earlier.[16]
  • 4 April – Senedd members Paul Davies, Darren Millar, Nick Ramsay and Alun Davies are cleared of breaking the law by drinking alcohol on the premises, in a report by the Senedd standards commissioner, Douglas Bain.[17]
  • 28 April – South Wales Police charge Bridgend MP Jamie Wallis with careless driving, failing to report an accident, and leaving a vehicle in a dangerous position, following the incident in November 2021.[18]

Arts and literature

National Eisteddfod of Wales

Awards

English language
  • Martin Shipton – Mr Jones - The Man Who Knew Too Much - The Life and Death of Gareth Jones[19]

Albums

Film

English language

Welsh language


Sport
  • 7 January – Chester F.C., whose ground, the Deva Stadium, is partly in Wales, announce that the club is being investigated for a potential breach of Wales's COVID regulations, after allowing spectators at two matches in the stadium in December 2021 and January 2022.[24]

Deaths

References
  1. "Rt Hon Mark Drakeford MS:First Minister of Wales". Gov.Wales. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. "The Rt Hon Simon Hart MP". gove.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  3. "New Archbishop of Wales elected". Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  4. "Myrddin ap Dafydd elected Archdruid". Eisteddfod Wales. 7 July 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  5. Huw Thomas (1 March 2016). "Ifor ap Glyn is appointed new national poet of Wales". BBC News. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  6. "Welsh Secretary celebrates New Year Honours recipients". Office of the Secretary of State for Wales. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  7. Felicity Evans (14 January 2022). "Covid in Wales: Restrictions to ease after Omicron peak". BBC News. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  8. Steven Morris (21 January 2022). "Boris Johnson's history is catching up with him, says Welsh first minister". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  9. Lisa Baker. "Real living wage a good first step, 'but still a lot more' to do for carers in Wales, says GMB union". News from Wales. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  10. Sarah Dickins (14 February 2022). "Four-day working week pilot bid for Welsh workers". BBC News. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  11. Evie Breese. "Welsh care leavers to receive £1,600 a month in basic income pilot". The Big Issue. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  12. "Basic income: Wales pilot offers £1,600 a month to care leavers". BBC. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  13. "Foreign Office reprimand Welsh politicians Adam Price and Mick Antoniw over trip to Ukraine". WalesOnline. 23 February 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  14. Cathy Owen (28 February 2022). "The moment four children are rescued from fast-flowing river by helicopter". WalesOnline. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  15. "Mark Drakeford at Welsh Labour's 2022 conference: "There is another way"". Labourist. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  16. "Jamie Wallis MP comes out as trans and speaks of rape ordeal". BBC News. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  17. David Deans (4 April 2022). "Senedd booze ban politicians cleared". BBC News. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  18. "Jamie Wallis: Bridgend MP charged over car crash". BBC News. 28 April 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  19. "Mr Jones - The Man Who Knew Too Much". Ashley Drake Publishing Ltd. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  20. Power, Ed (29 January 2022). "Cate Le Bon was stranded in Wales so she made a lockdown album". The Irish Times.
  21. "Hollywood's Jurassic Park premiere in Carmarthen set for movie". BBC News. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  22. Thomas Booth (8 January 2022). "'Slammed' BBC Wales rugby documentary review & rating". Last Word on Sports.
  23. "Kiri Pritchard-McLean announced as new presenter of TV Flashback". BBC Media Centre. 10 December 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  24. "Covid probe after 2,000 fans went to Chester FC games… at stadium that's actually in Wales". LBC. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  25. Owen Harries (11 January 2022). "Swansea Legend Keith Todd passes away aged 80". Herald Wales. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  26. Sam Moore (11 January 2022). "Burke Shelley death: Budgie founder dies aged 71". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  27. Milnes, David (13 January 2022). "Popular leading lightweight jockey Taffy Thomas dies aged 76". Racing Post. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  28. "In Memory of Howard Radford, 1930–2022". Bristol Rovers. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  29. "One of Wales' greatest entertainers Wyn Calvin has died". Nation Cymru. 25 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  30. "Welsh language Commissioner and former AM Aled Roberts has died". Wales Online. 14 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  31. "Ruth Bidgood Obituary". Seren Books. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  32. Dunlevy, T'Cha (5 March 2022). "Obituary: Montreal choir conductor Iwan Edwards's 'passion was limitless'". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  33. Harries, Robert (4 March 2022). "Welsh presenting legend Dai Jones Llanilar has died". WalesOnline. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  34. "Tour de France and Olympic rider Colin Lewis dies aged 79: Tributes pour in for champion Devon cyclist". Devon Live. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  35. "Alan Rees - A Tribute". Glamorgan Cricket. 18 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  36. Genzlinger, Neil (21 April 2022). "Peter Swales, Who Startled Freud Scholarship, Dies at 73". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
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