Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:49 pm on 22 November 2016.
I thank the Cabinet Secretary for his statement that contained many encouraging comments with regard to his visit to Japan. However, turning to exports in general, would the Cabinet Secretary confirm to Members that Wales’s exports to the EU have been in sharp decline over the last decade, falling, as my colleague pointed out earlier, from 60 per cent to less than 40 per cent during that period, and that perhaps Brexit was not only a timely wake-up call, but it would rather seem to be a necessary intervention if Wales was not to slide deeper into the economic doldrums with regard to its export achievements?