Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 15 March 2017.
I’m very happy to give that commitment this afternoon, Llywydd. The Welsh Government has been ready to sign the Swansea city deal for some weeks now. We are frustrated by the actions of the UK Government in the different messages that different Ministers in that Government appear to relay. I was pleased to see the letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Jonathan Edwards, the MP for Carmarthen East, in which the Chancellor again committed himself to the deal, and said that he hoped the Government would be in a position to move ahead with it very shortly. We certainly believe that they ought to be in that position.