Public Ownership of Retail and Commercial Property

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:52 pm on 24 April 2018.

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Photo of Mark Reckless Mark Reckless Conservative 1:52, 24 April 2018

I certainly look forward to those Qatar flights starting. First Minister, on 11 April, Ken Skates said that there had been no transaction connected with the proposed Cardiff bus station that would create a liability for stamp duty land tax or land transaction tax. Yet, on 18 April, he said Welsh Government had recently bought the site from Cardiff Council for £12 million. Did Welsh Government agree, exchange and complete on such a large and complex deal in less than a week, or has it somehow sought to avoid its own 6 per cent supertax on land transactions?