A Welsh Member of the Senedd who has issued 22 job adverts in the last six years has blamed the "demanding" nature of the role for her difficulty keeping staff in post. Welsh Tory MS Janet Finch-Saunders denied allegations by one former staff member who claimed there was an intense level of control in her office, and they had to ask to go to the toilet. She called the allegations "unpleasant and ridiculous".
A Freedom of Information Act request we put in showed Ms Finch-Saunders has advertised more jobs than any other Member of the Senedd since 2016, with 22 job adverts. No other MS had advertised more than 14 and many have only advertised two or three times to recruit new staff members. Most MSs employ three or four people.
One former staff member who did not want to be named claimed it was an unpleasant working environment in her office, saying: "It was just a toxic environment with intense levels of control."
