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Four key Vaughan Gething donation questions the Labour Party won't answer (www.walesonline.co.uk)

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Welsh and UK Labour have refused to answer vital questions about the £200,000 donation that First Minister Vaughan Gething accepted from a man convicted of environmental offences. The row over the donation has overshadowed the first few months of Mr Gething's leadership.

During his campaign to become leader against Jeremy Miles he took £200,000 from a company called Dauson Environmental Group - whose owner David Neal was given a suspended prison sentence in 2013 for illegally dumping waste on a conservation site. Mr Gething repeatedly lobbied for that company and on the same day they made the donation to him they also put in an application to build a solar farm which will require Welsh Government approval.

Just 11 months before the donation was made, Dauson was given a £400,000 loan by the Welsh Government-owned Development Bank of Wales. Mr Gething was the economy minister at the time the loan was granted. Any money left over from Mr Gething's campaign will be donated to the Labour Party.

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