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House of Commons · Ministers' Questions

North Wales Growth Deal

Wednesday 15 January 2020 · 3 questions

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Key points

  • Robin Millar (Conservative) inquired about recent progress on the north Wales growth deal.
  • The heads of terms for the north Wales growth deal were signed in November 2019.
  • Mark Tami (Labour) welcomed the Minister and requested more funding for the north Wales growth deal.

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Robin Millar Con Bridgend
Economy Wales
Context

The question pertains to recent progress on the development of a growth deal for north Wales.

Question

What recent progress has been made on the development of the north Wales growth deal? Together with the Welsh Government and the leaders of the North Wales Economic Ambition Board, heads of terms for the north Wales growth deal were signed in November 2019. The opportunities provided by that deal are the latest example of the Government's commitment to levelling up communities across the United Kingdom.

Answer from David Davies (Minister for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)

Together with the Welsh Government and the leaders of the North Wales Economic Ambition Board, heads of terms for the north Wales growth deal were signed in November 2019. The opportunities provided by that deal are the latest example of the Government's commitment to levelling up communities across the United Kingdom.

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Q2 Robin Millar Con Bridgend
Wales
Context

The question highlights the political shift in north Wales from Labour to Conservative MPs over the past two decades.

Question

I thank my hon. Friend for his answer. In the past 20 years, the people of north Wales, and the people of Aberconwy, have grown used to being overlooked and underfunded by a Cardiff-based, Labour-led Welsh Government. It will not have escaped the attention of the House that seven of the nine MPs from north Wales are now Conservatives. Does my hon. Friend agree that that represents a new chapter for north Wales?

Answer from David Davies (Minister for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)

May I offer the warmest welcome to my hon. Friend? This Government note that the people of north Wales appear to have rejected 20 years of Labour government, and have already begun to build an impressive piece of infrastructure—a political blue wall that now stretches from Ynys Môn to Clwyd South. I look forward to seeing that political infrastructure followed up by physical infrastructure, as we release hundreds of millions of pounds in the growth deals into north Wales.

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Q3 Mark Tami Lab Alyn and Deeside
Economy Local Government
Context

The question discusses the adequacy of funding in the north Wales growth deal and requests for a strategic approach rather than piecemeal projects.

Question

I welcome the Minister to his place. I hope he lasts longer than his predecessors, and that I can meet him more than once about the north Wales growth deal—more than I did any of his predecessors. May I ask him for more money, because the money on offer is not enough? I also ask for a strategic growth deal, not a series of pet projects across north Wales.

Answer from David Davies (Minister for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)

We have absolutely no intention of allowing the sort of pet projects to go ahead that we have seen money wasted on in previous years. All growth deal projects will be rigorously scrutinised to ensure value for money, but at the end of the day, if the right hon. Gentleman wants to criticise the Government for putting hundreds of millions of pounds into the north Wales economy, then I plead guilty and I am absolutely delighted to be a part of the Government who are doing it.

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