9. Urgent Question: Infrastructure Investment Plan

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:40 pm on 14 December 2016.

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Photo of Darren Millar Darren Millar Conservative 5:40, 14 December 2016

I was a little alarmed as well to see this announcement being made this morning not in this place but in another Government-owned building down the road. Can I ask you—[Interruption.] Can I ask you, Minister, with specific reference to the investment that has been announced in north Wales, you’ve made a suggestion that it’s a simple reheat and microwaving of previous investment that has been announced in this Chamber and through this house—I’m not aware of the significant investment that you’ve referred to in respect of safety and congestion on the A55? Can you tell us whether that will include adding a hard shoulder to those parts of the A55 that do not currently have one, whether it will address the significant problems that we’ve had on a perennial basis with flooding along the A55, and whether those particular parts of the A55 where there is congestion on a daily basis, not just in the Deeside area, but elsewhere, will also be addressed as a result of this investment?