Businesses in Blaenau Gwent

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:13 pm on 6 October 2020.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:13, 6 October 2020

Llywydd, I thank Laura Anne Jones for that question, which is a proper and serious question that I know my colleague Ken Skates is thinking about and will have heard the representations from Monmouthshire. 

When I last spoke with Peter Fox, the Conservative leader of Monmouthshire, he was clear that local lockdown restrictions were not yet required in that county, and I hope that we will be able to avoid them altogether. Eighty million pounds of the phase 3 of the economic resilience fund—and I thank the Member for what she said about it—is, of course, available to businesses in Monmouthshire, as elsewhere, but I will make sure and I will ask my colleague Ken Skates to read what she has said this afternoon about the border impacts on neighbouring authorities where local lockdown restrictions are required.