Part of 5. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 2:52 pm on 8 July 2020.
I can certainly tell him positively that the Fusion scheme is one that I've inherited through one of my long-standing political friends, Kay Andrews—Baroness Andrews—who devised the scheme, reported to Welsh Government to set it up. And I can assure you that I would regard that as a priority for further investment, because it brings together whole issues in relation to disability and community arts, and relates them to what we can do.
Now, you also said 'institutions'. I want to make it quite clear this funding that we've had is not necessarily for institutions. It's for institutions that have business plans to deliver. It is also for those individuals—the individual artistic workers—who are self-employed, the overwhelming majority of them. And I think it's very important that we look to the whole sector. It's for the personnel who deliver artistic services, as well as the institutions.