Economic Forecasts

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 17 November 2020.

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Photo of Mick Antoniw Mick Antoniw Labour 1:33, 17 November 2020

First Minister, we don't have any clarity or certainty yet whether the UK Government is going to be able to negotiate an EU trade agreement, and we don't know whether there's going to be any further support for businesses. We see that sectors like the aviation sector in my constituency have been abandoned by the UK Government. We've lost jobs in avionics, at BAMC, GE and many others, and, at the same time, the UK Government is rolling over a whole series of trade agreements internationally with very little scrutiny, if any at all, in Westminster, and this is causing controversy. I'm wondering what steps are being taken by the Welsh Government to ensure that Welsh interests are protected in those trade agreements, because they do affect Welsh manufacturing, Welsh agriculture and, ultimately, Welsh jobs.