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The Budget

I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman makes such an important intervention. I will give him an example of what my Government did in my area, the Vale of Clwyd. The Tories built the St Asaph business park. It cost £11.5 million; £2.5 million for a flyover alone. That business park was empty for seven years. Some 100 jobs were created in a seven-year period, 54 of them with the Welsh Development Agency. That was until 1997. In 1997, the Labour Government engaged with Europe and, with the help and agreement of my right hon. Friend the Member for Neath, the objective 1 boundaries were changed to include Conwy and Denbighshire. We engaged with the Wales Office, which positively engaged with Europe. As a result, £124 million of objective 1 funding has come to Denbighshire and to the county and constituency of the Vale of Clwyd. Here we are: a desolate, barren £11.5 million business park empty under the Tories—