Labour have let Conwy and Denbighshire down
14 December 2009
Westminster
After almost 13 years of Labour Government, Conwy and Denbighshire are the fifth poorest areas in the United Kingdom and Wales is the poorest region of the country.
The Office for National Statistics Bulletin on regional, sub-regional and local gross value added (GVA), published on 9 December, reveals that Welsh GVA per head of population in 2008 was 25.7 per cent below the national average.
Of the “NUTS3” local areas, Conwy and Denbighshire were the fifth poorest, with a GVA of only 59.7 per cent of the UK average. The poorest local area in the whole of the UK was the Isle of Anglesey, at 55.1 per cent.
Clwyd West MP, David Jones, said:
“The figures are truly horrifying and underline the precise scale of Labour’s economic failure.
“Labour have been in power in Westminster for almost 13 years and for 10 years in the Welsh Assembly, in coalition with Plaid Cymru. Yet after all that time and after receiving huge support in European structural funds, Wales is the poorest part of the UK and Conwy and Denbighshire are the fifth poorest local areas.
“The socialist economic model adopted by Labour and Plaid Cymru has utterly failed Wales.
“We desperately need a new government with fresh ideas to get Wales working again.
“Only the Conservative party can provide the change that Wales so badly needs.”
ENDS
Note to Editors:
The ONS report can be found at:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/gva1209.pdf
“NUTS” stands for “European Union Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics”. NUTS is a hierarchical classification of areas that provides a breakdown of the European Union's economic territory so that regional statistics that are comparable across the Union can be produced.
“NUTS3” local areas are principally individual counties and local authorities.
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