<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – in the Senedd at 1:42 pm on 25 January 2017.

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Photo of Adam Price Adam Price Plaid Cymru 1:42, 25 January 2017

Diolch, Lywydd. As the Cabinet Secretary will be aware, I and my party colleagues were roundly condemned for expressing our sincere belief, echoed by many steelworkers, that the current package of proposals on offer from Tata needed to be radically improved to make it fair and acceptable for workers. It was therefore gratifying to see as a headline in the ‘Llanelli Star’ earlier this week this picture of the AM for Llanelli and the MP for Llanelli, under the headline, ‘Leading Llanelli politicians tell Tata Steel: ‘"Re-think pension deal"‘. Now, the Labour MP for Llanelli said of Tata’s proposals that steelworkers have every right to be angry and expressed her hope that even now, just days before the vote, it is not too late for Tata to look again and offer a better deal, even though we’ve heard, of course, from some of the Labour benches the argument that there’s no alternative. Does the Cabinet Secretary agree with the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence that workers are right to be angry and that Tata urgently needs to rethink its proposals?