Madam,

Your report headlined Airfield bosses in battle to become UK’s first spaceport quotes Snowdonia Aerospace chief executive Lee Paul as saying there are 15 companies and 50 jobs at the airfield. These are the same numbers quoted by Gwynedd Council in their recent bypass newsletter.

The number employed at the airfield is difficult to come by as both Gwynedd Council and the Welsh Assembly Government have refused to release details.

I have been informed by people who work at the airfield that there are probably seven people employed there (mostly in maintenance, cleaning or catering) with a further three or so employed by local companies who have relocated to the airfield. Other local companies use storage at the airfield but do not have any workers there.

Whilst all new jobs are most welcome and we all wish to see the airfield thrive, it is worrying that such high numbers are being propagated.

Could it perhaps be trying to justify the large sums of (mostly) public money that has been spent there?

Yours etc,

Mark Williams, Llanbedr.

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