Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:25 pm on 8 February 2017.
You said that one of the problems with the proposed regional economic map of Wales, by including the more prosperous areas, for instance Cardiff, with the Heads of the Valleys in a single region, is that it artificially masks the level of deprivation in those areas, which means that we could, potentially, under a future regional policy framework, not have the highest level of development aid. That’s why we redrew the map for convergence funding to create the west Wales and the Valleys region, rather than having the old industrial south Wales, where we didn’t actually have the highest level of aid.