Enterprise and Business Committee

 

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 3 - Senedd

 

 

 

Meeting date:

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

 

 

 

Meeting time:

10:00 - 12:18

 

 

 

This meeting can be viewed on Senedd TV at:
 http://www.senedd.tv/archiveplayer.jsf?v=en_400000_05_02_2014&t=0&l=en

 

 

Concise Minutes:

 

 

 

Assembly Members:

 

Nick Ramsay (Chair)

Mick Antoniw

Byron Davies

Keith Davies

Dafydd Elis-Thomas

Rhun ap Iorwerth

Julie James

Eluned Parrott

Joyce Watson

 

 

 

 

 

Witnesses:

 

Gareth John, UKTI

Ed Payne, Scottish Development International

Guy Warrington, UKTI

 

 

 

 

 

Committee Staff:

 

Claire Morris (Second Clerk)

Olga Lewis (Deputy Clerk)

Ben Stokes (Researcher)

 

 

 

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Transcript

View the meeting transcript.

 

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1    Introductions, apologies and substitutions

1.1 Apologies were received from David Rees AM.  There were no substitutions.

 

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2    Inquiry into the Welsh Government's approach to the promotion of trade and inward investment - evidence session 7 (10.15-11.05)

2.1 The Committee took evidence from Ed Payne, Head of Strategy, Scottish Development International.

 

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3    Inquiry into the Welsh Government's approach to the promotion of trade and inward investment - evidence session 8 (11.10-12.00)

3.1 The Committee took evidence from Guy Warrington, Director, English Regions and Gareth John, Senior Investment Adviser,  both from UKTI.

 

3.2 Gareth John agreed to provide the breakdown of the information (on schools, house prices etc) supplied by partners which forms the database used as the basis for the “triage” process of selecting the areas recommended to businesses as attracting opportunities for investment and the explanation of algorism used for this process.

 

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4    Papers to note

4.1 The Committee noted the following supporting documents:

 

EBC(4)-04-14(p.4) –TEN-T-summary of applications

EBC(4)-04-14(p.5) - TEN-T-Port of Holyhead update correspondence

Minutes of the previous meeting

 

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5    Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business:

5.1 The Committee resolved to exclude the public from the meeting for the following business: the next week’s discussion of the Forward Work Programme

 

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