9. Urgent Question: Tata Steel

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:23 pm on 7 December 2016.

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Photo of Lee Waters Lee Waters Labour 6:23, 7 December 2016

Diolch, Lywydd. Thank you, Minister. I must say, I’ll express my relief at the fact a deal has been reached and my thanks to you and the First Minister and the officials for your role in playing this. It’s clearly a matter of concern that we are subject to the whims of a boardroom in India and I’m sure there are many in the Chamber who are discomforted by how dependent we are on the decisions that we have so little control over. Can he reassure us that, in the economic strategy that he is putting together with colleagues, great effort will be put in place to make sure that we are more resilient to these external shocks in future, and we put in place for our communities other options so that we’re not held to ransom like this from multinationals who exercise decisions sometimes on a whimsy?