Enterprise Zones

Part of 2. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:28 pm on 14 November 2017.

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Photo of Russell George Russell George Conservative 2:28, 14 November 2017

First Minister, since the creation of the Ebbw Vale enterprise zone, £94.6 million has been spent to create, safeguard or assist just 390 jobs. Those are figures published by the Welsh Government. So, that's a cost of around £0.25 million per job. Given that the key plank of enterprise zones is job creation, these figures indicate to me that there's a huge level of investment that has not been good value for money. Can Wales afford another five years of investment on this kind of scale for the kind of return that I've highlighted?