Transforming the Digital Landscape of Islwyn

Part of 2. Questions to the Leader of the House and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 2:49 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 2:49, 14 November 2018

That is not in my portfolio—the M4 relief road—so I'm not the Cabinet Secretary who should be asked, but, obviously, the point of the broadband programme is to enable people to work in better jobs, closer to their home and not to have to commute on polluting forms of transport to destinations far away. So, a very large part of the reason that we've put this investment in throughout Wales is to allow very well paid jobs to be delivered closer to people's homes in their communities so they don't have to suffer the commute that the Member so eloquently outlined.