Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 28 September 2022.
I'm grateful for the question and I'll certainly discuss the specific case that you raise with the Deputy Minister for Climate Change, but pedestrian safety and Safe Routes in Communities schemes are clearly important to us, as are our active travel schemes, which, of course, support pedestrians and cyclists and other users as well. So, you'll have seen our investment in active travel in particular has increased very much over recent years, and it's something that we continue to be very much committed to. We are disappointed overall at the level of capital funding that we have available to us. It does fall in each of the three years of the spending review period. I was very sorry not to see additional capital funding announced at the mini budget last week; that would have been an opportunity, really, to inject some infrastructure investment into our communities. But it's something that we continue to call for. But I will discuss the particular case whilst we continue to make the case for additional capital funding.