Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:13 pm on 22 September 2020.
First Minister, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report that was published recently really highlights the importance of high-performing transport networks and skills development to address the historic low productivity that we've suffered in Wales, given the very low level of investment by the UK Government since the industrialisation in the 1970s and 1980s. It is very disappointing to read that the UK Government seems hell bent on using the internal market Bill to undermine the climate reduction commitments of devolved Governments. How can the Welsh Government stay focused on the precision skills required to deliver its clean, green transport and housing ambitions—essential to deliver our carbon reduction commitments—when the UK Government seems determined to top-slice the money that Wales is entitled to to build redundant relief roads and, I fear, carpet the countryside with poor-quality building developments to become the slums of the future?