Conservative Candidate Slams Assembly schools spending

This week nearly £45 million of spending was announced by Labour/Plaids Assembly Government for building on new schools and repairs in 2009/10, yet less that £1 million of this will be spent in North Wales with no allocation at all for Flintshire. Of the £45 Million Denbighshire will receive £410,000 and Wrexham £275,000. The Minister announced spending up to 2012 of a total of £78,717,962 yet only 5.116 million of this will be in North Wales, again none of the proposed spending will be in Flintshire.

Antoinette Sandbach Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Delyn said “It is a disgrace that yet again Labour and Plaid are discriminating against taxpayers from North Wales. In this current economic climate, where we have seen extensive job losses in North Wales, the Assembly’s spending on capital projects is of great importance to pupils in North Wales and could provide valuable jobs here. Once again there is an overwhelming bias towards South Wales. The Minister claimed that this would deliver schools “fit for the 21st Century” but clearly that applies only to South Wales where most of the spending is allocated”.