Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:13 pm on 7 December 2022.
I'm sure you know the word 'retrospective' and that's the point that my colleague Sam Rowlands is making. The approaches I've had to me by business owners—distraught business owners—is that the year that they are going forward, they're looking back and taking into account business that was affected during COVID. And so it is unjust that they're now—. They technically are in breach of the new guidelines, going forward, but they didn't know at the time, and they had no option, because this Government locked them down so they couldn't actually trade.