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Closed petition Make St David's Day a public holiday for Wales
St David's Davids Day, 1st of March, should be a public holiday in Wales.
It is hugely important to celebrate the culture and heritage of a country and St David's Day is ideally placed to do this. This will allow the people of Wales to celebrate together this iconic day.
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The UK Government has refused proposals for both designating St David's Day as a bank holiday or devolving powers to the Welsh Government to decide.
This is despite overwhelming support for the day to be a bank holiday. Wales and England have 8 public holidays, Scotland has 9, Northern Ireland has 10, whereas the average in Europe is 12 annual holidays.
In recent years we have had an "extra" bank holidays for the Queen jubilee and this year the King's coronation.
It is now time for Wales!
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