Speeches and questions

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Thanks, Vikki. Sarah.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Diolch, Sam, and if I can now bring in Vikki Howells. Vikki.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Thank you, Luke. If I can now bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Thank you very much. If I can now bring in Hefin David. Hefin, can you hear us? If I can bring Hefin in. Can you hear us, Hefin? No. I'll come back to Hefin, then. Perhaps I can bring in Luke Fletcher first, then, and I'll come back to Hefin.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Thank you. Emily Rees.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Thank you very much indeed for those introductions, and perhaps I can just kick off this session just by asking a general question to outline your views, really, on the impact of and opportunities presented by the agreement on businesses in Wales relating to…

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Thank you. And Emily Rees.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Thank you. Sam Lowe.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Please, yes.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Michael, can you hear us?

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Welcome back to this meeting of the committee for economy and rural affairs. We'll move to item 6 on our agenda, and this is looking at the UK-Australia free trade agreement and the effect on Wales. Can I welcome our witnesses to this session? And can I ask…

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Yes. Thank you very much indeed, Sam. I'm afraid time has beaten us, so our session has come to an end, but, on behalf of the committee, can I take this opportunity to thank you for your time this afternoon? It's been very, very useful, your evidence as far…

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Thank you, Vikki. And finally, if I can bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Yes. Time is pressing; we don't have much time. So, if I could move on and bring in Vikki Howells. Vikki.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Diolch yn fawr iawn, Luke. If I can now bring in Sarah Murphy. Sarah.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Diolch yn fawr iawn, Hefin. If I can now bring in Luke Fletcher. Luke.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Can we start with James Scorey? James.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

We can. We can hear you, yes, absolutely.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Thank you very much indeed for those introductions. And if we can now go straight into questions, and I'll bring in Hefin David at this point. Hefin.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Thank you. And Jeff Protheroe.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Arwyn Watkins. Arwyn Watkins. Can you hear us at all, Arwyn Watkins?

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Iestyn Davies.

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Skills sector

Well, welcome to this meeting of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee. We'll move on now to item 5 on our agenda. This is our third panel session today for the committee's inquiry into hospitality, retail and tourism, and we're now looking at the…

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Trade Unions and Bevan Foundation

Thank you very much, Vikki. I'm afraid our time has come to an end, so our session has come to an end. On behalf of the committee, can I take this opportunity to thank you for your time this morning? Your evidence will be very useful in our inquiry. A…

3 March 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Hospitality, retail and tourism issues - Trade Unions and Bevan Foundation

Diolch yn fawr iawn, Luke. Before I bring in Vikki Howells, we are over time, so if I could just ask you all to be as succinct as possible. Thank you. Vikki.