Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:15 pm on 27 November 2019.
I'll just finish my point, Mark, then I'll happily give way.
We could turn to the fact that on European social fund employability support projects, they were 46 per cent more likely to find work over 12 months than similarly unemployed people receiving other forms of support or no support at all; that European regional development fund business support has a positive impact on employment growth—7 per cent higher than for non-assisted businesses; that on employment levels, it's 15 per cent higher than for non-assisted businesses; that turnover growth is 5 per cent higher; and turnover levels, 12 per cent higher—I could go on.
Before I bring you in, Mark, it's also about the criticality of these to research and innovation, including some of the ones that many of us have visited and had our photos taken in. So, things such as Swansea University's bay campus, Blaenau Gwent learning zone, Coleg y Cymoedd's Nantgarw campus, the Menai Science Park, Aberystwyth University innovation campus, the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Baglan Energy Park, and so on. And I could list, to my right honourable colleague here who sits in another place as well, the investment that's gone into many of Wales's finest tourism venues as well, whether it's the Wales coastal path, Venue Cymru, Ponty lido, Nant Gwrtheyrn, and so on and so on.
The criticality of this is that that letter makes clear, as, I have to say, do the majority of people who are looking with interest at the future of the UK shared prosperity fund, that decisions on the future, as well as replacing the whole of those funds, need to be made in Wales. I hope Mark would support that as I take the intervention.