Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 22 November 2016.
First Minister, the Welsh business barometer, from the South Wales Chamber of Commerce report, said the number of small and medium-sized enterprises that were reporting a growth in export sales and orders has fallen in the third quarter of 2016. My own postbag is growing with small businesses contacting me concerned about the potential increase in their business rates. Will you consider increasing the funding that you’ve put in place for support with the transition, because, clearly, that would help a lot of small businesses who remain very uncertain about how their business rates are going to be after 2017?