Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 1:42 pm on 10 January 2018.
Thank you very much, Llywydd. I’d like to return, if I may, to the matter of the Government’s support to the film and television industry, which is a very important and significant sector of our economy and our culture. Last month, the Government confirmed in the freedom of information request that the Pinewood company no longer pays rent or is a tenant at the Wentloog studio that they signed a rental agreement for in 2014. However, you did inform us that Pinewood are still committed to operating a studio under the management agreement, even though the details of that agreement aren’t in the public domain. Is it right, then, to take from this that Pinewood was paying the Welsh Government to maintain a studio in Wales and that we are now paying them to maintain a studio in Wales? Considering that they’re not paying rent and that they are not a tenant either, and that they no longer have a role with regard to the investment fund, is it a Pinewood studio in name only?