I am determined to bring good quality jobs and prosperity to Ynys Môn which is why I have championed:
- The £2.7m Community Renewal Fund: which helped local businesses create around 90 new employment opportunities.
- Anglesey Freeport: jobs have already been created to manage the programme and transform the old Anglesey Aluminium site into Prosperity Parc. The Freeport itself is forecast to generate up to 13,000 jobs across North Wales with at least 1,000 on Anglesey.
- The £17m Levelling Up Fund: local people are being employed to revive Holyhead Town Centre with 65 long term permanent jobs expected when the work is complete.
- The £16.1m Shared Prosperity Fund: supporting 25 levelling up projects across Anglesey with £400k specifically for Ynys Môn sports clubs and voluntary organisations.
- New nuclear at Wylfa: the UK Government is in discussions to buy the site from Hitachi. Wylfa has the potential to create 9,000 construction jobs and 900 long-term jobs.
We need this investment to enable local people to stay here on Ynys Môn, raise their families and protect our Welsh language.
That is why I created my ‘Local Jobs for Local People’ campaign.
I visit businesses all over the island and you will regularly see me showing companies around that are interested in investing on Ynys Môn. I ask these businesses to publicly commit to training and employing local people whenever possible by signing up to my campaign. Many local, national and global companies have already signed up.
In doing so they are recognising the importance of our local language and culture, our need for long term economic stability and local people’s passion to stay on the island and live and work here.
