<p>Business Rates</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:36 pm on 29 November 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:36, 29 November 2016

It is something that we looked at with the Valuation Office Agency. It is a highly complicated area. What we have done instead, of course, is to put on the table a more generous package for Tata than business rate relief would offer. So, I would argue that what we have on the table goes well beyond what business rate relief on plant and machinery would be able to offer in the first place, especially given the complexities and the time it would take to put such a system in place.