Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:55 pm on 20 September 2016.
I think that import substitution is probably going to become even more imperative, economically, to us as a result possibly of the clumsy and confusing approach to single market access that we’re currently seeing from this Government, but can the First Minister tell us if the kind of advice and direction given to local authorities currently by the Welsh Government includes positive support of things like a dynamic purchasing system, which allows companies, new companies, to supply as part of a contract, even after another organisation has been appointed, and away from the overuse of framework contracts and the bundling of contracts, which are inimical, really, to providing opportunities particularly to small and medium-sized enterprises?