<p>Activities of the Steel Taskforce</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:03 pm on 8 June 2016.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 2:03, 8 June 2016

I thank the First Minister for that answer, and I will wait to hear some of the points, but one of the issues I want to highlight is the fact that, since the announcement in January of over 1,000 job losses, 750 of which were in my constituency, in Port Talbot works, we have seen most of those jobs actually go, and at the end of this month the remainder of those jobs go. Now, the earlier parts have been through voluntary redundancy or early retirement approaches, but there are going to be compulsory redundancies in the next bunch of job losses. I just want to know whether the taskforce is now preparing for those job losses to help those people who are going to be out of a job, and particularly their families, who’ll be facing challenging times ahead of them in the coming months.