Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:53 pm on 10 February 2021.
Absolutely not. Of course, we have a very different settlement to Scotland, so I don't think those comparisons are necessarily valid. If you want to look at the ambition that the Welsh Labour Government has, you only have to look as far as the Wales infrastructure investment programme and the pipeline that we've set out. That extends well beyond the period for which we have set budgets, but we nonetheless have identified important projects that we will want to explore taking forward: the A55 third Menai crossing, for example, a £130 million plan to start in 2022; the A55/A494/A458 Flintshire corridor, a £300 million plan to start in 2022; the north-east Wales metro, £504 million, and our Welsh Government will be making a contribution towards that; £1 million in the Tech Valleys programme; the next phase of the twenty-first century schools programme, £2 billion; and the south Wales integrated transport metro, £738 million. These are all serious investments in communities, which will no doubt have an impact on job creation and providing economic stimulus. So, it's absolutely not the case to say we're not ambitious in this area; in fact, we have a Wales infrastructure investment plan that says quite the contrary.