Which party will do most for local small businesses?

(From Llanelli Star Series)

WITH just a day to go until polling day, the Carmarthenshire Branch of the Federation of Small Businesses put questions to Llanelli's parliamentary candidates.

If elected, how would you fight for Carmarthenshire's small businesses in this world of increasingly powerful multi-national enterprises? MYFANWY DAVIES, PLAID CYMRU: Plaid would set up a venture capital fund to give our businesses the funds they need to develop new ideas, to expand and to create sustainable jobs. The Welsh Venture Capital Fund would be established with the help of the Welsh Assembly Government to raise capital and deliver investment.

MYRDDIN EDWARDS, LIBERAL DEMOCRAT: The Westminster Government owns huge amounts of the banks, and they should be forced to lend to viable …