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Oral Answers to Questions

Robin Millar Excerpts
Wednesday 15th January 2020

(4 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robin Millar Portrait Robin Millar (Aberconwy) (Con)
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6. What recent progress has been made on the development of the north Wales growth deal.

David T C Davies Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (David T. C. Davies)
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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.

Robin Millar Portrait Robin Millar
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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?

David T C Davies Portrait David T. C. Davies
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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.