Unemployment Rates

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:30 pm on 21 November 2017.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 1:30, 21 November 2017

I thank the First Minister for that reply. He will know that the Swansea travel-to-work area includes large parts of Carmarthenshire and, therefore, the announcement by Amazon recently that they were creating 2,000 jobs for the Christmas trade will be very welcome. But less welcome is the fact that they're doing a lot of their recruitment through a company called the Central European Recruitment and Contract Services Ltd, and that's basically to bus in people from Hungary rather than from Carmarthenshire. One of my constituents has contacted me to say that she'd been contacted by this company, wanting to know if she had residential rooms for rent that could be hot-bedded in three shifts for these workers. Doesn't this tend to undermine the purpose of the grants that Amazon received from the Welsh Government for their warehousing facility in Swansea?