Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:49 pm on 4 July 2017.
Will you, therefore, then, First Minister, make public all the evidence that you’ve based your decision on—the £100 million investment and the due diligence that you as a Government, I hope, have undertaken, and the ability to have confidence that that 1,500 jobs figure will be reached—so that in two, three or four years’ time, we’re not looking back at a big shed that is empty and these job opportunities lost to that particular area of Wales? As I’ve said—and I sincerely mean it—I hope the jobs come, but if you look at the track record of the five years of the enterprise zone, which was an automotive enterprise zone, I might add, you haven’t managed to create 200 jobs in that area, and in the last year where figures are available, only eight jobs have been created, despite all the incentives of the enterprise zone. Will you, therefore, make public the evidence that you’ve based your decision on to sanction £100 million-worth of investment, and the feasibility in the figure that you’ve put forward of 1,500 jobs being created?