Mick Bates (Montgomeryshire, Lib Dem) wanted reassurance that free school travel be taken away.

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Mick Bates, AM for Montgomeryshire, called for "urgent answers" from the Assembly's Economic Development Minister over what the Assembly Government planned to do.

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Montgomeryshire AM Mick Bates welcomed the potential development of the site.

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The seat was won in 2007 by then Lib Dem candidate Mick Bates, who was expelled by the party after being convicted for drunkenly attacking a paramedic.

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