Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 17 October 2017.
Well, again, as I said, we have the bodies that have been set up to work with industry. Industry Wales is another example of that. We have a chief economist and other economists who can support what we are doing. We also have the Public Policy Institute for Wales, whose job it is to look at issues as they arise and provide us with advice. We do have that academic input into policy making. He seems to give the impression that, somehow, we have no economic data at all or advice that advises on what we need to do. That is not correct and, as we see from the fact that unemployment is at a low level and foreign direct investment is at a very high level, the information we’re getting is clearly right as far as the decisions we’re taking are concerned.