<p>Tackling Poverty</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 21 June 2017.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 2:07, 21 June 2017

Cabinet Secretary, it’s clear from independent evaluation with regard to Communities First that the Government has failed in its aim to decrease general poverty in these areas. With the scrapping of Communities First, how will you deliver on the specific goal of decreasing poverty? Because, and I quote the Cabinet Secretary from this morning’s committee evidence to us, he will be relying on a ‘jigsaw’ of different projects to come together, via the councils’ funding mechanisms and via employability programmes, specifically looking at an individual’s, from your portfolio. So, it’s a question of how will you deliver on tackling poverty now that that key delivery body that you set up to be able to do that has fundamentally failed in that goal.