8. 5. Statement: Focus on Exports

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:46 pm on 22 November 2016.

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Photo of Jeremy Miles Jeremy Miles Labour 4:46, 22 November 2016

Can I congratulate the Cabinet Secretary on a successful visit to Japan? It’s obviously important to keep these markets open for Welsh exports. Can I ask him to address the particular challenges faced by small and medium-sized businesses in exporting, half of which depend heavily on the internet to drive export sales? He mentioned that he’d had some concerns in Japan around Brexit. As the EU moves, albeit slowly, towards a digital single market, I hope that we’ll find ways of taking advantage of the harmonisation that that will bring and the lower costs that that will bring for those that remain members. But that aside, what steps is the Government taking to encourage e-exporting, to explain the scale of the opportunity and how to go about it?