Supporting Businesses in South Wales Central

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:34 pm on 7 January 2020.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:34, 7 January 2020

I thank Vikki Howells for that. It's an absolutely integral part of our capital expenditure programmes that we try and make sure that as much business as possible ends up in the hands of local suppliers and indigenous enterprises. To give you just one example, the twenty-first century schools and colleges programme has a track record of working with local suppliers, and has developed discrete sets of targets for local supply chain engagement in that programme—the biggest programme of investment in schools and colleges for 50 years, and a deliberate bias in favour of making sure that that Welsh public money ends up in Welsh businesses, creating further Welsh jobs.