8. How is the Welsh Government tackling anti-social behaviour in Alyn and Deeside? OQ55738

Llywydd, thank you. The Welsh Government is committed to ensuring people in our communities are safe and feel safe. We continue to work with our four police forces, local authorities and the UK Government as well as other agencies, to help ensure our people and our communities are protected from anti-social behaviour.

Thank you for that answer, First Minister. Just under a year ago, the Prime Minister came to my constituency of Alyn and Deeside and promised significantly more police and safer streets. Now, this promise has been broken. I recently asked my residents for their experiences of crime and anti-social behaviour, and they told me straight: there are fewer police on the streets than they can ever remember. I have written to the Home Secretary to ask for an explanation and an apology, and, First Minister, none have been forthcoming. Will you come and speak to my residents, hear their anger with the UK Conservative Government and take this message directly to Boris Johnson that he has let the residents in Alyn and Deeside down?

Well, Llywydd, I've been following the conversations that Jack Sargeant has been having with his local communities on this matter, and I absolutely commend the work that he is doing to hear directly from those local residents and to relay the stories that they are telling about the failure of the Prime Minister to honour the promises that he was making this time last year. Last year, he was acting as though the fall in the number of police officers on our streets was nothing to do with the 10 years of cuts that his Conservative colleagues had made in police budgets. He was acting as though in restoring some of those cuts, he was offering some great leap forward, when all he was doing was making good on the damage that his colleagues had already done. A year on, they've not made good the damage at all. I know that Jack's constituents will still value the 500 extra police community support officers that this Welsh Government funds from our resources. The leader of the Conservative Party here in Wales was telling people in Wales, only a week or two ago, that he would stop all expenditure by a Conservative Government here in the Senedd on non-devolved responsibilities. I wonder if he was willing to point out to them that that would mean the end of the 500 extra officers that people in Wales see on their streets today. Not only is there no fulfilling of promises made to Jack Sargeant's constituents, but a Conservative Party here in Wales would take away the help that is being provided through this Senedd. 

Thank you, First Minister.