Awarding Grants to Companies

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:15 pm on 19 June 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:15, 19 June 2018

Well, there's less money, because we get less money from the UK Conservative Government. So, it's not as if there is a sudden windfall of money that we can draw on in order to help businesses. But we continually look to improve our offer to businesses in terms of grant funding, particularly through removing duplication, because the temptation sometimes is to create a number of different grant schemes in order that different applications are able to fit properly. Now, that can lead to a proliferation of grant schemes in time, and the work that's ongoing is looking at slimming down, potentially, the number of grants that are available and simplifying the way in which they're applied for.