Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:39 pm on 6 November 2018.
Thank you, Llywydd. Twice over the past few weeks—in a Confederation of British Industry conference and in an interview with Guto Harri—you have referred to the increasing numbers of successful Welsh businesses that are selling out to companies outwith Wales. You said that you want to follow the mittelstand system in Germany, where indigenous companies grow and develop from small companies into medium-sized companies, rather than being sold. Have you made an assessment of the length and breadth of this problem? How many medium-sized Welsh businesses have been taken over during the past 12 to 15 months?