Supporting Businesses

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 5 October 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:32, 5 October 2021

Well, the answer to the question must be known to the person who asked it before she began the question. The money that comes to Wales depends upon decisions that are made by the UK Government, and then that money is passported to Wales through the Barnett formula. The minute your party in England abolishes business rates, there will be money in Wales for us to do the same. You have made no such promise. The next Labour Government will do that; then there will be money in Wales for us to be able to attend to business rates here.