Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – in the Senedd at 2:13 pm on 29 March 2017.
The Government’s been working very closely with the city deal partners in order to get the deal signed and approved, and to make sure that we have, although it’s not an appropriate word, shovel-ready projects—I don’t know—or finger-ready projects to go in this area—I’m not quite sure what the analogy is there. We’ve been working very hard as well with ESTnet, for example, to make sure that we have the underpinning digital technologies in our businesses to make sure that happens. I’m also running the Government data and digital group, which will be assisting local authority partners to make the most of their digital technologies, and we’ll be making some announcements in the near future about how we are rolling out some public sector development in that field in order to assist economic development in local authority areas.