Supporting the Economy

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 12:07 pm on 24 June 2020.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 12:07, 24 June 2020

Well, Llywydd, both the words 'swift' and 'safe' have to mean something in all of this. It can't be swift at the expense of safe, and if it were to be, then it wouldn't be very swift at all because we'd just be plunged back into the crisis from which we are now emerging.

Nobody should believe that the announcements made yesterday by the UK Government mean that the hospitality industry in England will resume as it was before the crisis began. I thought the Prime Minister was very clear himself about that yesterday. There will be a need to support that industry at a UK level, and that's what we look to the UK Government to do.