Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Economy – in the Senedd at 1:44 pm on 23 March 2022.

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Photo of Luke Fletcher Luke Fletcher Plaid Cymru 1:44, 23 March 2022

Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Minister, I listened with great interest to your response to Paul Davies, both yesterday and today, on the Cardiff capital region's absolutely shocking boast about relatively lower graduate pay in Cardiff compared to counterparts elsewhere in the UK. These comments, while supposedly to attract inward investors into the region, are ultimately insulting to our young talent, treating them merely as a cheap resource. Welsh graduates must be valued as more than cheap labour if the Welsh brain drain is to be rectified. I also noted the Minister didn't respond to Paul Davies's calls in his second question to condemn what was in the prospectus relating to wages. So, I wonder, then, does the Minister think this kind of rhetoric from Cardiff capital region is appropriate, and does he think that the promotion of a low-wage economy is the best way to further the Welsh economy.