Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:19 pm on 14 September 2016.
I'm very grateful for the Member's comments and question there. I'm pleased to hear of the positive progress being made in places like Port Talbot, and I look forward to seeing the work when I visit there at the end of the month. We’re providing £11.5 million to support a diverse programme, and the projects you mentioned are certainly contributing to rejuvenation of the town. Of course, as I said earlier on, the local authorities are awash with guidance; they never ask for more in terms of what their requests are, apart from more money, generally, but what I can assure you is that we take the bids from local authorities very carefully and consider them in our consideration about strategic regeneration areas or, now, the Vibrant and Viable Places scheme.