Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 27 June 2017.
I think he answered his own question by saying, ‘subject to finance’, and that is the issue here. We wanted to offer the circuit every opportunity to meet the conditions that we had stipulated. They weren’t able to meet those conditions, and so, as a result of that, the financial situation was not right for us to be able to support this scheme for the circuit. What we can, however, do is to deliver the vast majority of the jobs by delivering the technology park. We’ve spoken to potential investors. We’ve spoken to those in the industry. They are interested. They want to work with us on the technology park. So, yes, there are jobs to the tune of four figures that can be delivered as that technology park is taken forward. It’s not dependent on there actually being, physically, a race track there.