Cymorth i fusnesau

6 May 2022

Dear

ATISN 16250 – Support for Businesses

Information requested

Thank you for your request which I received on 13 April 2022.  You asked for:

The amount of funding support from Welsh Government, if any, and reasons for the funding for the following companies:

• Airbus
• Aston Martin
• Babcock
• BCB International
• Curtiss-Wright
• Qioptic (Excelitas)
• Faun Trackway
• General Dynamics
• Iris NDT Ltd
• James Fisher
• Kent Periscopes
• Magellan Aerospace
• Qinetic
• Raytheon
• Rolls Royce
• Senior (Flexonics)
• Thales Group
• Toyota
• Trelleborg

Our response

The information you have requested is as follows:

Airbus

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
27/07/2018	2,270,000.00	Airbus Endeavr Wales
01/07/2018	1,400,000.00	Airbus Endeavr Wales
05/01/2017	10,070.00	Airbus Industrial Cadets
31/10/2017	4,964.00	Airbus Saturday Engineering Club
01/08/2018	1,418,343.00	Flexible Skills Programme
01/09/2018	1,656,219.33	Flexible Skills Programme
01/09/2018	1,102,773.34	Flexible Skills Programme
01/09/2020	952,173.00	Flexible Skills Programme
19/05/2021	265,000.00	Flexible Skills Programme
19/05/2021	200,000.00	Flexible Skills Programme
19/05/2021	35,000.00	Flexible Skills Programme

Aston Martin

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
20/03/2018	11,500,000.00	Aston Martin RDI
08/08/2017	5,800,000.00	Aston Martin RBF
08/06/2016	150,000.00	Flexible Skills Programme
01/04/2017	100,000.00	Flexible Skills Programme
01/04/2018	350,000.00	Flexible Skills Programme
10/04/2019	250,000.00	Flexible Skills Programme
01/04/2020	100,000.00	Flexible Skills Programme

Babcock

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
29/04/2016	1,250.00	VOC Training
03/04/2017	1,500.00	VOC Training
06/01/2017	1,500.00	VOC Training

BCB International

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
09/06/2014	111,760.00	Growth Prosperity Fund

Curtiss-Wright

None

Faun Trackway

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
31/01/2016	6,000.00	Business Wales Start up grant

General Dynamics

None

Iris NDT Ltd

None

James Fisher

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
15/11/2018	64,156.00	Finance to aid capital investment

Kent Periscopes

None

Magellan Aerospace

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
21/11/2018	11,719.00	Flexible Skills Programme
10/12/2018	30,430.50	Flexible Skills Programme

Qinetic

None

Qioptic (Excelitas)

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
15/01/2022	2,500.00	Flexible Skills Programme

Raytheon

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
19/01/2016	4,279.00	Raytheon Quadcopter Challenge
30/11/2017	6,805.00	Raytheon Quadcopter Challenge

Rolls Royce

None

Senior (Flexonics)

None

Thales Group

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
03/09/2021	200,000.00	Thales UK Ltd Temp Build Hybrid 1
24/03/2021	3,500,000.00	Thales UK Ltd EFF Resilient Works
06/01/2020	11,400,000.00	Thales UK Ltd NDEC

Toyota

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
18/12/2020	375,000.00	Funding to aid capital investment (decarbonisation)
20/09/2017	41,430.06	Flexible Skills Programme
29/09/2021	5,147.50	Flexible Skills Programme

Trelleborg

Offer Date	Amount	Purpose
20/03/2018	175,000.00	Finance to aid capital investment

Next steps

If you are dissatisfied with the Welsh Government’s handling of your request, you can ask for an internal review within 40 working days of the date of this response.  Requests for an internal review should be addressed to the Welsh Government’s Freedom of Information Officer at:

Information Rights Unit, 
Welsh Government,
Cathays Park, 
Cardiff, 
CF10 3NQ 

or Email: Freedom.ofinformation@gov.wales

Please remember to quote the ATISN reference number above.   

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:  Information Commissioner’s Office,

Wycliffe House, 
Water Lane, 
Wilmslow, 
Cheshire, 
SK9 5AF.

However, please note that the Commissioner will not normally investigate a complaint until it has been through our own internal review process.

Yours sincerely