Cabinet Secretary, I’m grateful for the answers you’ve given to date. Obviously, this is a huge concern and many of the employees also live in the Vale of Glamorgan and across the South Wales Central region. The jobs, historically, at the Bridgend engine plant have been very attractive, well paid, and people have stayed within the plant once they’ve found employment there. There is a unique set of circumstances around this plant; obviously it was part of the Jaguar Land Rover family many years ago. Ultimately, a lot of that capacity will now move to Wolverhampton with the new engine plant that Jaguar Land Rover have opened there.

I did ask you back in September about your intentions and engagements with the company to try and secure a medium to long-term future for this plant. As we know, the decision to downscale production at the engine plant was taken in Detroit, at Ford’s world headquarters, not in Europe, and not by the UK management. I note that, to date, you have not undertaken the visit that you said you were going to be undertaking at the time of that urgent question—to go to Detroit and have face-to-face discussions with Ford at their world headquarters. This is part of, obviously, a huge operation in Europe and across the world that Ford periodically look at, and I would ask: when will you be undertaking that visit to Detroit to actually speak to the people who are making these decisions, and can give the assurances that this Government, the employees and the community around the Bridgend engine plant require? Because, as I said, for nigh on 40 years now, that plant has provided quality jobs and has provided security as well. But I don’t think it’s helpful with the rhetoric today that if a plan isn’t forthcoming within two weeks there will be strike action at that plant, as Len McCluskey has indicated in his press statement. I hope that you will agree with me that strike action is the last thing that the Bridgend engine plant requires.