Minister, it is important that the north Wales metro delivers for generations to come, and it is the transport network that residents in north Wales deserve. For residents in Alyn and Deeside, this is about delivering the Flintshire corridor to act as the spine of the north Wales metro. It is also about creating key transport hubs to achieve a fully integrated, multi-modal system, and I welcome in your statement, Minister, that you have recognised Shotton as a key hub.

However, we will need more hubs to ensure all areas, including our rural communities, benefit. This will have to include places like Buckley and Broughton, to allow them and surrounding rural areas to be properly connected. Minister, we also need to deliver on a station for Deeside industrial park, and I welcome your commitment to that station, which will link people from right across north Wales and across the border to the north west of England to their place of work. So, Minister, what work can be done to make sure all of these communities can benefit from such a metro, in particular our rural areas?

And if I may, Minister, bring you back to your statement where you were absolutely right to mention the years of under-investment from a UK Conservative Government, a Government that is spending over £100 billion on an England-only HS2. Minister, what message do you send to the UK Government and others who are refusing to give the people of north Wales what is rightfully theirs?