Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:37 pm on 21 March 2017.
As a member of the multiagency and cross-party working group that successfully campaigned under the leadership of community campaigners Together Creating Communities to establish the Tŷ Nos night shelter in Wrexham, it’s particularly frustrating that the Welsh Government’s latest national rough sleeper count not only shows a 72 per cent increase in rough sleepers across Wales, but the numbers in Wrexham on the night of the count were up from 17 to 27 on the previous years, and at 61, Wrexham had the highest proportion of people sleeping rough over a two-week period in Wales—significantly higher, even, than Cardiff. How, therefore, do you propose that the Welsh Government should engage with Wrexham town centre forum steering group, whose chair, Andrew Atkinson, has said that it’s time for everyone to put politics aside, stop blaming each other and work together mutually to get to grips with the town’s issues?