Promoting Alyn and Deeside to the World

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:49 pm on 5 February 2020.

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Photo of Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Labour 2:49, 5 February 2020

Thank you. Well, I hope that the fact that the First Minister and the Minister for the economy visited with you in Shotton was testament to the fact that they very much underline the importance of this sector. I think this is an area where in Wales we do have, really, something to sell the world. We are doing some very, very innovative work, and I think there is scope for us to be promoting that. So, one of the things I'm trying to instigate is a monthly message to embassies around the world to say, 'This is the theme that we would like you to promote this year or this month', and I think it would be really useful, perhaps, for us to look at how we could do that in the context of steel, so that's certainly—. But I think it's probably also worth emphasising that, in fact, Alyn and Deeside is home to the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, and that is specifically mentioned in the strategy as one of the magnet projects to attract people to come to north Wales to invest.