, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Thank you, Luke. And I'll bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Thank you, Sarah. And I'll bring in Luke Fletcher, who wants to ask a supplementary question on this topic. Luke.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Thank you, Vikki. I'll now bring in Sarah Murphy. Sarah.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Yes, that would be very useful, if you could come back to us as a committee. Thank you. Thank you, Luke. If I can now ask Vikki Howells to come in. Vikki.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
But, surely, Minister, it's not a matter of plucking a figure out of the air. Surely, you are doing some work on this at the moment. Therefore, surely you would have some sort of idea what sort of funding you will require to put in place to support this.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Welcome back to this second session with the economy Minister, as part of the committee's short inquiry into hospitality, retail and tourism issues. We will move straight to questions. May I ask Luke Fletcher to come in to ask some questions? Luke.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Thank you, Hefin. Are there any other questions in this general scrutiny session that Members would like to put to the Minister? No. Therefore, we'll take a short break, and we will resume our scrutiny of the economy Minister and his team into our tourism…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Thank you, Sam. If I can now bring in Hefin David. Hefin.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Okay. Thank you very much indeed for that. If I can now bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
And what are you doing, as a Government, to address the pandemic's effects for learners on apprenticeships and, indeed, other vocational courses, particularly to tackle the number of learners who do not complete their course and, indeed, the growing…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
And at this point, can I just bring in Hefin David who'd also like to ask you a question on this subject? Hefin.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Yes. You mentioned apprenticeships there and you've been clear, as a Government, of course, you've set this target of 125,000. What effect have the apprenticeship incentives for businesses had on the number of apprenticeships started and what progress is…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Well, thank you very much indeed for those introductions. Perhaps I can kick off this session with some questions around your skills policy, Minister. Can you give us an update on the progress made with the young person's guarantee since it was launched in…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
And Andrew Gwatkin.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Heledd Owen.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Claire McDonald.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Steffan Roberts.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Welcome back to the Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee. We'll move on now to item 4 on our agenda, which is ministerial scrutiny. Can I extend a warm welcome to the Minister for Economy and his officials to the scrutiny session today, which will be…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
We'll now take a short break to prepare for the next session. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you very much indeed, Minister, and I'm afraid our session has now come to an end. So, on behalf of the committee, can I take this opportunity to thank you and your team for being with us this morning? It's been very, very useful. As usual, a transcript…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
And how will you ensure that these common frameworks don't actually weaken stakeholder involvement or parliamentary accountability in policy development, and, indeed, the legislative process?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
So, just to be clear, then, Minister, you're confident that these frameworks won't constrain you as a Government to develop policy in the future, and you believe that these frameworks are there to manage divergence and also to work on joint policy making…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Yes. The reason I was asking you that is because there are perhaps concerns that this could constrain you as a Government in terms of developing policy in the future. So, can you just tell us to what extent these common frameworks actually constrain policy…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you, Vikki. Minister, I just want to ask you some questions around common frameworks, which have been agreed with the other Governments across the UK. Obviously, we've been talking about the agriculture (Wales) Bill earlier on today. Has the Welsh…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Diolch, Luke. If I can now bring in Vikki Howells. Vikki.
