<p>Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 7 February 2017.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:51, 7 February 2017

In terms of the number of jobs, the total number of jobs will be 40 in the Welsh Revenue Authority. There will be some people who will be able to be based at home in order to work. I did look very, very carefully at where the WRA could be based, and a report was commissioned to that end, and Members should know that report, I believe, was placed in the Library on Friday. The skills that are required for the Welsh Revenue Authority at the moment are skills that aren’t actually available in Wales to any great extent. They’re not the same skills as the people in Porthmadog have. We have to recruit from outside Wales, in the main, in order for those skills to be available to us when the Welsh Revenue Authority begins in April. It was made very clear to me that bringing people to Cardiff in order to work was the option that was easiest in terms of recruiting people, but, of course, that doesn’t mean in the future that the body can’t reconsider where it might go. But, at the moment, certainly, the body will go to Treforest, and that was the strong advice—that that was by far the location that was favourable in terms of being able to attract the people with the specialist skills, many of whom are actually in London at the moment.