Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:59 pm on 1 February 2017.
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. As I’m sure you’re aware, I have a short debate later today on the Cardiff capital city region deal. It won’t be you who will be responding; that will be the Cabinet Secretary for finance. In that debate, I’ll be raising the fact that it’s a deal with much potential for the future, and clearly, about growing connections between communities that will strengthen those communities—that’s urban and rural communities. What discussions have you had with the finance Cabinet Secretary about utilising the substantial city deal funding coming not just from this place, but also coming from Westminster to make sure that that funding does go into strengthening our rural communities and strengthening projects such as the south Wales metro, which will ensure that people living out in some of those more distant parts of the South Wales East region are able to get to areas like Cardiff and Newport as quickly and as easily as possible to ensure that they’re economically better off?