Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 1:37 pm on 20 June 2018.
I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that response. This Monday, I went to visit the new bay campus of Swansea University to see how European structural funds have been used there. And I was extremely impressed with the quality of their projects, particularly with their built-in, cross-cutting themes of sustainable development, tackling poverty and social exclusion, and particularly with the materials and manufacturing education, training and learning programme, which is a programme to upskill more than 360 people, from 30 different companies, in the field of advanced materials and manufacturing, also proactively encouraging women to participate. Does the Cabinet Secretary agree that we must ensure that such high-quality projects can be maintained in the future and that any future regional development progress must absolutely include high-quality standards, such as we see with European structural funds?