Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:04 pm on 28 February 2017.
It’s very welcome that we have a cross-party group, and Rhun ap Iorwerth you are chairing that and bringing together that consensus that we need here in this Chamber to support our First Minister, who is in the US. Welsh Government has always promoted Wales around St David’s Day and that is a key focus of these visits, and also indeed not only in terms of visits to the USA, China, Dubai, Brussels—there are also events happening in embassies and high commissions across Europe and elsewhere. I think it is important that we recognise that, for example, the First Minister is—his programme in the US includes business and political meetings. He’ll make a statement, as Cabinet Secretaries always do on their return from these trade missions, and recognising that it is with the diaspora that we engage, so, it is with those companies in Wales that are the US companies, but also that the trade mission and cultural delegation visiting China also provided a profile. So, I’ve already given you some outcomes from the Chinese trade mission. I’m sure we will have outcomes from the US visit by the First Minister in due course.