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Questions to the Minister for Economy
We are providing £125 million of funding over three years to Welsh local authorities through our Transforming Towns programme. Last year, we published our town centres position statement, which sets out the challenges facing towns in Wales, and a series of…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Well, actually, north-west Wales is the part of Wales that has a history and a tradition around the nuclear sector. I'd like to see a new generation of activity, both opportunities around small modular reactors and the potential for medical radioisotope…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
I think it's a fair point around wanting to have partners together to try to make sure that you do deliver some of the economic benefit that comes from that, and public services are definitely part of that too. I know that there's a Bangor strategic…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
The Welsh Government works across portfolios and in collaboration with local partners and is supporting a wide range of holistic and transformative activity and investments to help improve the economy of Bangor and its surrounding region.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you for the question.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Actually, of course, there are a number of things that have happened positively. I'm being honest about the picture that we face with the UK Government moving in the wrong direction. If you look at, for example, productivity, over the course of devolution we…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
I'm not here to have a brand that's personal, I'm here to do a job on behalf of the Welsh Government and the people of Wales. It's always been very clear that my interest is in how we have more jobs and better jobs and the conditions for that to happen. We've…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Well, I understand the politics in the Chamber and I understand why the Member makes the points that he makes. When it comes to rural Wales, if you ask farmers or rural communities whether they view the scheme in England as something that they want to see…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
Well, there are, I think, two broad points to make in response. The first, of course, is that, as the Member knows, the lead Minister for the sustainable farming scheme is Lesley Griffiths, and she has lead responsibility for the economy as it relates to…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
No. I don't carry those figures around in my head. What I do know, though, is that we have a really challenging environment for businesses here in Wales. As I set out in response to your colleague Peter Fox, we're in a period of sustained flatlining in terms…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
I'm very pleased that Jack Sargeant mentioned Business Wales, which, again, is unique to Wales as a service that helps to support the economy, that helps to support businesses and the growth in jobs. Businesses that survive and businesses that are grown with…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Economy
The business environment contains a whole range of different factors. When I became the Minister for Economy, every business organisation was clear about the fact that they wanted to work with the Government here in Wales and the fact that they felt they had…
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Questions to the Minister for Economy
Thank you for the question. At a time of great uncertainty, with the UK economy facing a long period of stagnation and, now, recession, I regularly engage with business organisations to take forward our economic mission to maximise the certainty for Welsh…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
No problem. Thank you very much.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
Pretty well is the truth. So, since the first milestone was introduced—. This is the pre-notification and health certification from the end of January, and we had stood up arrangements in case there were problems, and they were stood down within a couple of…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
I'd like to see our trading relationships with the European Union stabilised and improved to an extent where there's more trust and more understanding about how goods will move. We've got a number of things that we still need to resolve in that. If you think…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
Robbie Douglas-Miller. I knew he had a double-barrelled surname, but I didn't want to guess it. And, look, on the initial meeting on a screen, I'm not saying he looks like a bad man who isn't capable—that wouldn't be fair at all—but he was new, and this had…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
He's a relatively new DEFRA Minister—another one. So, Lord Benyon was the previous DEFRA Minister; it's now Lord—
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
'Safeguarding the Union' plans, to try to resolve some of the challenges around Northern Ireland, which we know have been fairly intractable, in overall terms, are good news in restoring devolution. That's a good thing for Northern Ireland, and a good thing…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
We have had further discussions. We need to be clear about whether we'll get agreement. And that may well be one of the lines in today's budget. I'm fully expecting that the Chancellor will want to announce it today at some point. And I'm sure he'll give full…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
So, officials do engage with both free port groups, giving clarity around where we are with what the expectation is that they'll need to meet. So, it will not be a surprise to free ports bidding in to get the outline business case agreed about roughly where…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
So, the decision on outline business cases, I'm keen to be able to say something about that whilst in post, and to confirm what is happening with that. My officials, including Tom, are leading on some of this work, together with UK Government officials…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
We're still going through the business rates discussion on the level of relief. That's also part of what we're talking about with each of the bidders. So, I'm hoping to confirm where we're going to be on our overall support as well as the particulars of…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
Bore da, Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Minister for Economy
On the health issues, I've raised those proactively and repeatedly, both with the company as well as in the transition board, and it's why we're engaged, working not just with the health board, but also the meetings I've had in particular with the Deputy…
