Support for Businesses

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:24 pm on 26 May 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 2:24, 26 May 2021

I thank Sarah Murphy for that question and congratulate her on her election and for speaking in the Chamber for the first time. I met many businesses with her in the Bridgend area who went out of their way to tell us how much they appreciated the support that they had had from the UK Government and from the Welsh Government as well. It's very easy for some Members in the Chamber to amplify the voices of those people who feel they have a grievance, but the vast bulk of businesses in Wales who have had help from the UK Government and from the Welsh Government recognise the help that they have received. It may not do everything they want, it certainly doesn't wipe away all the challenges they face, but they have appreciated the help that's been available, the speed at which it's been available and the way in which it has allowed them to plot a path through the pandemic and now, hopefully, beyond it. The experience that the Member refers to I think is far, far more typical of the way that businesses in Wales have responded than some of the complaints that we heard earlier this afternoon.