Poverty in South Wales West

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 13 February 2018.

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Photo of Caroline Jones Caroline Jones UKIP 1:39, 13 February 2018

Thank you, First Minister. My region is now one of the poorest regions in the UK. It has the lowest employment rate in Wales, high levels of economic inactivity, and some of the lowest gross disposable household income in the UK. After nearly 20 years of Labour's economic plans, things are going in the wrong direction. My region doesn't need economic tinkering, like the disastrous techniums, nor empty enterprise zones. It needs a low-tax, business-friendly economy to encourage businesses to invest in the region. The world's most successful small computing platform—