Part of 4. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 12:59 pm on 1 July 2020.
I think the example that Nick Ramsey has given in relation to the aerospace industry just demonstrates how our support for the economy in Wales has to be a team effort between the UK Government and Welsh Government. Some of these sectors and some of these industries and businesses are so huge and are so strategically important that it is important that the UK Government also steps up to the mark. We talked about Tata, of course, during First Minister's questions today. So, I think it is important to work together to support businesses, and for each of us to do our bit in that.
In terms of the economic resilience fund, we have only allocated a part of that so far, and that's important because we wanted to hold some of that back to help with the recovery. So, our focus in the short term has been shoring up businesses, helping them get through the immediate crisis, but obviously the focus has to turn to recovery and supporting businesses to grow and supporting businesses to develop.
We've also been really focused on filling those gaps, so, again, working to ensure that everything that we do doesn't replicate what's available elsewhere but augments it, and I think that the figure that the ONS has provided, which shows that more than 30 per cent of Welsh businesses have now received support from either the Welsh Government or the UK Government, as compared to 21 per cent in Scotland and 14 per cent in England, shows how important it is that the Welsh Government seeks to augment what the UK Government is able to do. So, they will have a really important role in terms of Airbus and other large employers.