Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change – in the Senedd at 1:41 pm on 21 September 2022.
Thanks so much, Presiding Officer. Deputy Minister, in 2019, the Welsh Government made a number of commitments regarding transparency, accountability and participation. One of these commitments was to raise awareness of the Welsh Government's finances, specifically about where money comes and how it is spent. You will be aware that I've tried on a number of occasions to discover the amount of money spent by you on road projects across Wales, before they were brought to a sudden halt by your roads review, only to be met by deliberate delay and obfuscation. It took a freedom of information request to discover that a total of £24 million was spent on road projects across Wales prior to this cancellation. This comes after your Government wasted £157 million on the M4 relief road project. Welsh businesses are crying out for better road infrastructure, and communities, such as Llanbedr, desperately need relief roads or bypasses to relieve pollution and congestion. So, Deputy Minister, will you now abandon this absurd policy of freezing road improvement projects in Wales and actually invest in the infrastructure we so desperately need?