Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 1:40 pm on 20 March 2019.
In my region, Cabinet Secretary—or Minister now, as you're called—the Welsh Government is supporting the development plans for a new road from junction 34 to Sycamore Cross in the Vale of Glamorgan. Many residents within that area support road improvements in the existing infrastructure but for the life of them cannot understand why you are proposing to drive viaducts and new roadways across some of the most nature-sensitive areas in the Vale of Glamorgan. Can you join up the dots for me so I can go back to my constituents and understand how, when you take the environmental considerations into place, the Welsh Government is putting resources into a project that potentially would have a devastating impact on the environmental benefits of that particular area?