The secretary of state for Wales has said that he and the UK Government will not be making St David's Day a bank holiday.
There have been long standing calls within Wales for March 1 to be made a bank holiday. The leader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies has previously said he supports a S t David's Day bank holiday.
The previous secretary of state for Wales Robert Buckland had previously said he was in favour of making St David's Day a bank holiday in Wales and suggested that an other bank holiday should be scrapped in order to make room for the 1 March celebration. But in the Welsh Affairs Committee, new Welsh secretary David TC Davies rejected this idea.
