, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Young Person’s Guarantee
I thank Joyce Watson for again highlighting the point that the youngest people have been one of the hardest hit groups from the pandemic, and the loss of work opportunities in the work that they were already in and the direct impact. Equally, I too am very…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Young Person’s Guarantee
Thank you, and I recognise that the last decade has been more challenging than we'd want, both coming out of the global financial crash, and then measures that the UK chose to take at the time. And, to be fair, I know that the Member wasn't an enthusiastic…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Young Person’s Guarantee
I thank the Member for his questions, and I want to reassure him that he'll be young in this place, comparatively, for some time to come. On your starting point and your endpoint about fair work, essentially, and what our expectations around fair work are…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Young Person’s Guarantee
Thank you for the series of questions that I'll try and address in time. About your point about the national conversation with young people, we've of course been having a conversation with young people, as part of the regular interaction that we have, about…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Young Person’s Guarantee
Whatever the uncertainties we face, we can be sure of one thing: failing to step up to support young people today guarantees economic failure tomorrow. The guarantee is supported by wide-ranging provision to ensure that young people can take up effective…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Economy: The Young Person’s Guarantee
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Our young people hold the key to Wales's future. That is why I'm delighted to have officially launched our young person's guarantee this week. The Welsh Government is determined that there will be no lost generation in…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
You're very welcome. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
The legacy Jobs Growth Wales programme was, essentially, a wage subsidy for younger people, and it had good outcomes in getting people opportunities. The support that employers had to take on young people, I think, was widely recognised and praised. What…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
We do recognise the differential take-up when it comes to young men and young women going into them, but also these are all-age apprenticeships as well. So, yes, it's a factor that we recognise. And it's part of what we're trying to do to encourage people to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
We're really interested in expanding these out. It comes back to our challenge on how we use our budgets and the new realities of the developing funding framework. Because, as I said before, with apprenticeships, about a third of the funding comes from former…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
The guarantee is the umbrella that sits over all of the things we do to try to make sure that young people have employment, education or training opportunities, including self-employment. Actually, the good news is that we've got many of the building blocks…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
I think I really would be stepping over what my colleague and your friend Lee Waters is responsible for, but it is something that we're aware of and it's about us working with the industry and trying to have a conversation with the UK Government. Because…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
There is work on wanting to encourage people to come back. In fact, I was talking to Welsh Government officials who have got HGV licences who've already had a notice saying, 'Have you thought about coming back into the industry?' So, it's about how the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
This is an area that's led by the Deputy Minister for Climate Change. We are looking at what we can do in terms of how we help people with the skills element. So, personal learning accounts might help, ReAct funding can help as well in terms of assisting…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Officials in our transport division are in contact with both the Road Haulage Association and officials in the UK Government, and the challenge is what we can do to address the short and the medium-term problems. Before Brexit and before the pandemic, we knew…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Tim, do you want to set out what those interim arrangements might look like, and then how long they'll be needed? Because there's a challenge over how long the temporary arrangements might be needed before the permanent border control infrastructure is in…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
The spending review was never about covering off the costs of this particular area, and the consequentials that come from the UK Government's spending review are set out in entirely different areas. There is zero money that can be identified as a direct…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
So, the checks on animal and plant imports are a devolved function. The consequence of the choice made on how to leave the European Union, and the form of leaving, is a UK choice that means there are extra costs in a devolved sphere, and whether we choose to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
We've got—I'd describe it as some comfort on the capital cost, the build costs, of the posts and what's been helpful is that we've used the same consultants who have looked at some of the border control posts in England to give us an idea of the cost of that…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Yes, Tim.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
I don't think it's quite as simple as that. So, the Animal and Plant Health Agency, who we're working with, together with the port health authorities, they're the people we need to work with to understand who needs to be there to undertake checks, what sort…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
There hasn't been a giant step forward in terms of the information we already provided to Members at the start of October, which probably shouldn't be a surprise, as we're only a further five weeks away. We're focusing, actually, on delivering a permanent…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
We are working with a range of stakeholders in Wales to try to understand how they see the possible opportunities and risks in that wider group of countries and free trade agreements, a number of which will take their cues from where we see the UK Government…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Yes. If I can just refer to it in short as the pacific partnership. I'll bring Andrew in again, because I think the point about safeguards is directly relevant here. But, if you think about it, as a starting position, about 60 per cent of our trade in goods…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
General Ministerial Scrutiny - Minister for Economy
Go on, Andrew. It depends on the information we get and whether the agreements in principle become finalised agreements and the detail around them.
