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Debate between Stephen Crabb and Antoinette Sandbach(8 years, 9 months ago)
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Antoinette Sandbach (Eddisbury) (Con)
8. What assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of economic inactivity in Wales.
The Secretary of State for Wales (Stephen Crabb)
Our economic plan continues to bear fruit for Wales. This summer, we have seen more people in Wales going out to work each day than ever before, as economic inactivity falls.
Antoinette Sandbach
In 2011, the Labour Welsh Government announced that 5,000 jobs will be created in the Deeside enterprise zone. Four years later, fewer than 1,000 have been delivered. What is the Secretary of State doing to ensure that north Wales will benefit from the Mersey Dee Alliance?
Stephen Crabb
These are primarily Assembly issues, and I will look into them on behalf of my hon. Friend. What I can say is that business in north Wales, as throughout the whole of Wales right now, is filled with concern and dismay about the posture of a Labour party that is increasingly anti-business, anti-British and anti-worker.