Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:15 pm on 17 January 2017.
Thank you for that answer, First Minister. I met with the trade unions and steelworkers last week, again, to discuss some of the issues around the challenges they face. The proposal was one of the issues that came up, and what was clear was the lack of confidence, as I think has been highlighted, in Tata itself at this moment in time. I’ve passed that on myself to Mr Jha, but will you actually raise it now with the new chair of Tata and Sons, Mr Chandrasekaran, because it’s important that a voice from the top of Tata is there to say, ‘We support this deal, we’re going to honour this deal, it is going to be on the table and we will deliver it’? I think that voice from the top is important to the workers to gain that confidence that they’ve lost in the last 12 months.