Communities First: 'Wrong' to say all projects ending
A flagship scheme aimed at boosting deprived communities in Wales is being axed.
Communities secretary Carl Sargeant said the performance of Communities First had been mixed, and that "poverty remains a stubborn and persistent challenge".
The project, which spends around £30m a year on dozens of local programmes, will get reduced funding of 70% until March 2018.
Swansea East AM Mike Hedges provoked a rebuke from his Labour colleague Mr Sargeant after he listed a range of schemes which he claimed would now end.
14 Feb 2017