Part of 3. Questions to the Minister for Economy – in the Senedd at 2:38 pm on 31 January 2023.
The allocation that we've already provided in 2021, the £25 million you mentioned, is still available. My officers met with the Wrexham Gateway partnership last week, following the announcement that the levelling-up funding bid had been rejected. Of course, it's disappointing that Wrexham and Flintshire didn't receive anything from the levelling-up bids. There are a range of projects that you couldn't say amount to levelling-up, like a £45 million road congestion scheme in Dover—that has nothing to do with levelling-up—or the £19 million that somehow found its way to the Prime Minister's very wealthy rural constituency. We will carry on working with the Wrexham Gateway project, with our partners, to look at alternative funding options—as you say, a plan B—and that will of course include discussions with the football club. I'll be happy to update the constituency Member on those discussions as they progress.