Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 12 July 2022.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:58, 12 July 2022

(Translated)

Thank you for that question, of course, and I have seen the census results that have been published. There is a lot more information to draw out of those figures over the coming months. One of the reasons why I and Adam Price stood together in a press conference last week to set out the plan that we have on homes for people in rural areas was to try and create possibilities for the future for young people who want to live in the communities where they were born, and to stay there and to work there and to raise their children and, of course, to have somewhere to live. And through everything that we’re doing, we do want to create opportunities where people who want to remain in local communities can do so successfully. The figures show that it’s important for us to do more than that in order to attract people to Wales to be part of our future here, and that will be an important thing for us in the future as well.