Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 13 September 2016.
It’s true. I think it’s fair to say that the previous Prime Minister was very proactive in this regard. We’ve not heard as much from the current Government in terms of these two issues. There have been initial conversations; they’ve not been negative, but I think we need now, in the next few months, to see some progress, particularly on the issue of pensions, and on the issue, of course, of energy prices—a long-held issue. We have correspondence going back five years with the UK Government on the issue of energy prices, not just in the steel industry, but for all our energy-intensive industries. We cannot afford to be seen as an expensive place to manufacture because of energy prices.