The BBC election bus in Haverfordwest

The bus is spending the days up to polling on 3 May touring Wales.

In Haverfordwest, Preseli Pembrokeshire candidates responded to concerns from art consultant Gbubemi Amas Amanoritsewor, 50, from Cross Hands near Llanelli.

He is one of the Wales 60, a voters' group drawn up by the BBC, and asked how they would tackle social poverty and the divide between rich and poor.

He said he was particularly struck when visiting Swansea on the large amount of investment in the city's waterfront compared to some of its estates.

Click on the links below for the candidates' responses, and for Mr Amanoritsewor's verdict on it all.

Paul Davies

What we have seen in the last few years is the gap between rich and poor widening under the Labour government.

What we need to do, especially in rural areas, is to invest in our economy to create a thriving, vibrant local economy. We need to give young people the opportunities to stay and work in Pembrokeshire and to lift them out of poverty.

What we need to do, because the majority of the local economy here is made up of small businesses, is to support small businesses. We need to provide them with tax breaks, reduce the burden of bureaucracy, reduce red tape and give them business rate relief so people will have the opportunity to set-up in business and lift themselves out of poverty.

By doing that they will have the opportunity to purchase their own homes, if we have a vibrant local economy.

Hywel Davies

One of the key things is the transport infrastructure - it's very easy to update a city centre or take a marina that's been disused and bring it back into life but it is no use without the infrastructure so people can commute to work. In Pembrokeshire we have deprivation in Milford Haven, Neyland, Haverfordwest and a lot of the outlying villages and rural districts. We would expand local public services, and in particular public transport, so it would be a lot easier for people to get work.

We would like to see more free cash points in communities that don't have them and we have also been lobbying banks which don't use the Post Office network to provide free cash withdrawals through that. We are hard on anti-social behaviour where it damages the local economy and in tacking vandalism, fly-tipping and that sort of thing.

We have a programme of affordable housing which is not just affordable to buy but also run and maintain with green technology. We would invest �500m in social housing over the next four years so local authorities can develop their social housing.

Tamsin Dunwoody

With the example Gbubemi has cited - the marina in Swansea has benefited hugely from the Objective One programme and an area like Town Hill has benefited with the Phoenix Centre. There is a lot of good community work going on up there and what we intend to do is build on the that.

Our Communities First programme is about giving kids the best chance in life through things like free breakfasts, educational choices, making sure their health is improved and making sure their housing is improved. We have got a commitment to build 6,500 more affordable homes because it's a combination of health, housing and education that gives people a future life opportunity that perhaps they have not had or their parents have not had.

These are important issues to us and we are working towards the 2011 target to reduce child poverty and ultimately eradicate it - it's the mainstay of our manifesto.

John Osmond

The main problem, it seems to me, behind social poverty is that although there are many more people in work in Wales these days, people are working on very low wages. The minimum wage is just not enough and you can see that in Pembrokeshire where we have a housing crisis because homes are simply not affordable.

Plaid Cymru has a very radical policy to begin the introduction of what we call a living wage - that is we want to relate wages to prices and bring house prices into that. I can't say precisely what the level of the living wage is going to be, but it will certainly be significantly higher than the minimum wage we have at present. The fundamental way to tackle poverty is by paying a properly calculated living wage.

We also want to replace the council tax with a local income tax - it is another area where a lot of people experience great difficulty and it drives people into poverty. Council tax is not related to people's ability to pay so it is really urgent that we move towards a local income tax.

Gbubemi Amas Amanoritsewor

It's good to know that the parties are interested in trying to balance the void between the rich and the poor.

The Labour candidate seems to have made to me the best case but it would be really nice to see regeneration across Wales that reflects in the lives of people. There is social poverty - a lack of amenities, a lack of support for the family - little things that become so huge and finally cost the NHS and the police so much time and money.