Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:44 pm on 30 January 2019.
We know that transport infrastructure spending in Wales is way behind the curve, compared certainly with the south-east of England and the London area, and, in fact, if capital spend here in Wales had kept pace with capital spend per head in the south-east of England and London, an additional £5.6 billion would have been spent here in Wales over the past 20 years. Now, I see that as £5.6 billion missed. Would you agree that this is a classic case of underfunding Wales by UK Government? Would you agree to making it a priority to see if there is a source of funding here? And would you, perhaps, consider that this has been a failure by Welsh Government to stop that gap from increasing over the 20 years since you came into power in 1999?