<p>Wales’s Status as the Poorest Part of the UK</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – in the Senedd at 2:09 pm on 19 July 2017.

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Photo of David Rowlands David Rowlands UKIP 2:09, 19 July 2017

Well, thank you for that answer, Cabinet Minister. I asked the question because it appears that, after many years of this institution, we are now relatively poorer than we were at the start of devolution. Why, after billions of pounds of so-called European structural funding, do we find ourselves in such a position? Surely, it is time to address this situation with fundamentally different solutions than those applied before. It is time for Wales to turn away from an economy dominated by the public sector to one that is a dynamic industrial powerhouse that competes with the best in the world. We have the resources, skills, hard-working, industrious population, to make this happen. I know the Cabinet Secretary possesses those very same attributes, so will he apply them to drive this new industrial revolution in Wales and put a stop to this endless cycle of poverty?