2. Urgent Question: Tata’s Port Talbot Site

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:18 pm on 22 November 2016.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 2:18, 22 November 2016

Cabinet Secretary, I join you in expressing concerns that health and safety is a priority and we must ensure that everything is done to ensure the safety of our workers, particularly 15 years after the horrific accident that occurred in blast furnace No. 5. But, do you join me in congratulating the actual workforce? Because the result of taking on new employees—and they are going to be Tata employees, they’re not agency staff that will be employed, it’s Tata employees they’ll be employed as—through an agreement between trade unions and management shows that the level of production that has been achieved because of the bridge is actually succeeding and the works is actually going from strength to strength?