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<p>My priority is to promote economic growth and boost enterprise in Wales, the first objective in the Wales Office Business Plan. In recent months I have worked to bring a new prison to North Wales, which will boost the local economy by £28 million a year; announced during my visit to Toulouse a second round of bidding for National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme funding—a scheme that will help to create or retain 1,200 jobs UK-wide in the aerospace supply chain; worked with others to identify and secure infrastructure investment, particularly to upgrade the M4; continued to promote UK Government support for super fast broadband and for Cardiff and Newport to become super-connected cities; and taken forward work on the business cases for the electrification of the North Wales Coast railway line and the link between Wrexham and Bidston.</p> |