Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Wales Office

Oral Answers to Questions

David T C Davies Excerpts
Wednesday 4th March 2015

(9 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Crabb Portrait Stephen Crabb
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I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has referred to the valleys electrification project. It was a great achievement of this Government, along with the Welsh Government, to secure a deal to deliver electrification not just of the great western line to Swansea but, crucially, through to the valleys communities as well. We look forward to work starting on that project, subject to the Welsh Government agreeing the details, in 2018-19.

David T C Davies Portrait David T. C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)
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Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is not just Jobs Growth Wales but the coalition Government’s long-term economic plan that has delivered the unprecedented falls in youth unemployment, and that the binary choice that will be presented to the people of Wales on 7 May is between jobs, growth and prosperity and debt, deficit and dole queues?

Stephen Crabb Portrait Stephen Crabb
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As ever, the Chairman of the Welsh Affairs Committee is exactly right. He expresses the situation perfectly. What puts at risk all the great progress we have made in cutting long-term and youth unemployment across Wales is the prospect of a Labour Government who have no plan and no vision for the Welsh economy.