Additional Support for Businesses

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Economy and Transport and North Wales – in the Senedd at 2:10 pm on 7 October 2020.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 2:10, 7 October 2020

Minister, thank you for the answer to Helen Mary Jones, because there are many businesses in the Afan valley that have been depending upon the visitor trade for mountain biking and the excellent trails up there. Therefore, that answer will help them very much because they'll see their numbers decrease, because they are a business from outside of the county borough, not necessarily from within, because we know you can travel up there quite easily.

But another sector that's been affected is the taxi drivers across Wales, in these local restrictions. They had difficulty in lockdown, but we're now facing more challenges as local restrictions are coming into place, because there are fewer people coming into the town and they're not able, necessarily, to transport people beyond the county boroughs. Are you looking at the taxi organisations? Because buses have been helped, trains have been helped, but taxi drivers are yet to be helped in this area and they are struggling now to find out their long-term viabilities.