Electric Vehicle Batteries

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:41 pm on 12 January 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:41, 12 January 2021

Llywydd, I'm afraid the Member read out her question but was not very well informed about it. We continue to be in discussions with Britishvolt. The move to Blyth is their first factory. As I said in my answer to Jenny Rathbone, Wales has two sites—the Bro Tathan site and the Baglan site—in the top five of the United Kingdom Government's shortlist for gigafactory production of electric batteries. We continue to be in discussion with Britishvolt. They have ambitions beyond Blyth, and Wales is very much on their list for the next phase of their development. I am very keen that we continue to pursue those possibilities and certainly not to run down the efforts that the company made with the Welsh Government to bring jobs and activity to Wales.