Former Industrial Areas

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 1:41 pm on 22 November 2017.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 1:41, 22 November 2017

Cabinet Secretary, I fully appreciate that the former industrial areas in south Wales have been devastated in years gone past, but many of them—in fact, many former mining communities—are actually now turning to tourism as an agenda, to look at the economy of tourism, but they're struggling with support for that tourism business.

The Rhondda valley and the Afan valley have linked up on the Rhondda tunnel and I know you've supported that project, but there are difficulties in individuals and organisations getting that support. What can you do to help that, particularly as councils are facing difficulties because they are cash-strapped?