Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 1:52 pm on 7 February 2018.
Diolch, Llywydd. Cabinet Secretary, I'd like to refer back to the economy committee report on city deals if I may, and the recommendation that the boundaries of the deal area should be as flexible and as fuzzy as possible. Now, you rejected the recommendation on the grounds of governance, explaining in the debate two weeks ago that you're establishing chief regional officer roles to ensure that the deals are complementary, and so these fuzzy boundaries are unnecessary. I wonder what you can tell us about these chief regional officers, because they've not really come up in open exchanges like this before. Will they be Government appointed and funded, from whom will they take their steer, and to whom will they be accountable?