AMS will get the chance on whether or not to give the M4 relief road the green light, it has been revealed.

With the report of the public inquiry into the long-awaited scheme currently being considered by Welsh Government officially, it had so far been unclear whether or not the Assembly would hold a vote on the project.

But, speaking in the Senedd earlier today, leader of the house Julie James, standing in for Carwyn Jones during First Minister's Questions, confirmed a binding vote would be held.

Addressing Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price, she said: "To be as clear as it's humanly possible to be, I've said that the debate and vote will be taken into account in final investment decisions, but that it will be in government time.

"So, it's a binding vote in government time on the government. So, we've structured it in that way.

"My own backbenchers have been very clear that they want a vote of that sort. And I promised that vote, as (Mr Price) rightly says, in the Assembly.

"And so, we will do that, but we are in a statutory process and the vote must come at the right point in that statutory process, which is currently timetabled for the week commencing December 4."

Mr Jones has previously said he will make a decision on the £1.4 billion scheme before he leaves office as first minister in December.

But Mr Price, who opposes the project, called it "a 20th century answer to a 21st century problem" and said it would be "right and proper" for the decision to be made by Mr Jones' successor.