<p>The Cardiff Capital Region City Deal</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 15 February 2017.

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Photo of Steffan Lewis Steffan Lewis Plaid Cymru 1:39, 15 February 2017

I thank the Member for Caerphilly for raising this important question. I was interested in the response of the Cabinet Secretary where he talked about the statutory duty. To what extent will that statutory duty impose provisions for equitable redistribution of wealth across the Cardiff capital region? Will there, for example, be an expectation of the capital region to create designated growth poles across the capital region so that in-built in that economic plan is a necessity to invest in the peripheral areas of the capital region, so that we can turn the Heads of the Valleys area, for example, into an arc of prosperity rather than a corridor of underinvestment?