Tech Valleys

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 18 June 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:39, 18 June 2019

I thank the Member for that question. He's right to point to the ambitious number of jobs that we want to create as a result of the Tech Valleys programme. There are construction jobs expected in the coming months, there are the apprenticeships to which I have already referred, and there will be that investment we want to make in the landscape of that valley community in order to make the most of the huge natural assets that it has. Ministers will report here, Llywydd, regularly on the progress of the programme. I'm always glad to answer questions on it, and I know that my colleague Ken Skates reports regularly to Members on how the programme, which is a 10-year programme, with £100 million behind it, is being delivered on the ground.