Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:32 pm on 30 April 2019.
I would suggest to the Member that he goes out of this building and crosses a short stretch of water and turn left, and he will find a whole series of animators, a whole range of post-production activity, which is undertaken by these companies that exist in a building—in fact built by Welsh Government funding, before my time, in the time of my colleague. That wonderful yellow castle is exactly what the industry currently requires. Now, as soon as an industry requires further development of that kind, we will certainly be able to replicate that process. Following his strictures this afternoon, I will speak again, as I've done before, with those involved in the animation industry in Wales to see whether they feel that there is a particular area of development they would like to undertake.
The key thing that the media industry does, along the whole of the River Severn, in Bristol and in Cardiff—and we must see this as one whole area, I think, of development and clusters that work with each other, and the collaboration that there is, and extends, of course, with work that goes on across and through the Thames valley into London. That is the nature of the business that we are working with, but there is no shortage of interest on the part of this Welsh Government to support any project that my colleague would like to bring forward for discussion. If he is aware of any animators who feel that they haven't been properly responded to by any of my colleagues in Welsh Government, I'd be very glad to know about this so that we can improve the relationship between us.