3. 2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:41 pm on 27 June 2017.

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Photo of Mike Hedges Mike Hedges Labour 2:41, 27 June 2017

I’d like to ask for a Welsh Government statement on how the Welsh Government is working with the university sector in Wales to help increase the gross value added. The university sector will play a pivotal role in developing a highly skilled, highly educated and highly productive economy. Developments should include science parks developed by the universities such as Cambridge and Aarhus in Denmark, as well as growing student numbers and supporting innovation.

Can I also add my voice to Jenny Rathbone’s in asking for a debate relating to gambling and the problems of it? When you have those gambling machines that can take £100 in 20 seconds, that can create very, very serious problems for a large number of people. I know of the work my local MP, Carolyn Harris, is doing in Westminster in trying to get action taken, but I think that we end up picking up the pieces in social services. I mean, when you can lose £300 in a minute, not many people in Wales can afford to do that, so please can we have a debate, as Jenny Rathbone asked for?