<p>The Steel Industry</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:54 pm on 24 May 2016.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 1:54, 24 May 2016

Over the election period, First Minister, I and Plaid Cymru colleagues went to visit the engineering department within the new innovation campus. Following on from that meeting, I requested Swansea University to send me some figures as to what it would cost to set up a new steel and innovation unit in the university, because it’s so close—it’s in prime, premium position—to Tata Steel to be able to do that. It would cost £17.2 million over four years for that department to be realised. First Minister, if your Government believes that saving the steel industry is so vitally important, will you put money behind this new innovation project to make sure that steel can be sustained here in Wales?