Part of 2. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 25 January 2017.
Cabinet Secretary, your predecessor introduced enterprise zones as a means of actually growing the economy in particular areas across Wales and, last year, she introduced an enterprise zone in Port Talbot. What are you doing with your colleagues to ensure that the enhanced capital allowances can be extended beyond the time we’ve already been given, so that the enterprise zone, which we all know does not take one year but several years to establish itself, can get established? What he also told me in discussions with him was that capital allowances were needed to build the sites and grow spaces, which is square footage that we haven’t got elsewhere in Wales, to allow businesses to come in and use them, enabling them to grow.