High-speed Broadband in Caerphilly

Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House – in the Senedd at 3:06 pm on 24 January 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 3:06, 24 January 2018

Absolutely. It's not mentioned because it's just a fundamental part of the infrastructure. I'm a member of the Valleys taskforce board. We're working very closely together. A very large part of the economic plan for 'Our Valleys, Our Future' is based on that sort of infrastructure development, and I think it's actually part of where we're going with this, and it's just becoming part of the furniture. So, large parts of the Valleys communities are already well-served by the infrastructure. The big issue now is to get the services that run on the infrastructure up and running. So, it's not about the widgets; it's about the increased service provision that we can use the widgets for. So, the Valleys is very much part of using infrastructure appropriately now that it's in place. So, where it isn't in place, which is not very many parts of the Valleys, we will, of course, be looking at the successor projects to fill it in. So, the estates that the Member has mentioned, we will be looking very much to see that we get to industrial estates and other developments of that sort in the successor projects I mentioned earlier, and that will be very much part of the Valleys plan where they're in the Valleys, and, of course, part of the roll-out where they're not.