Enterprise and Business Committee

 

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 1 - Senedd

 

 

 

Meeting date:

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

 

 

 

Meeting time:

09:30 - 11:10

 

 

 

This meeting can be viewed on Senedd TV at:
http://www.senedd.tv/archiveplayer.jsf?v=en_200000_06_03_2013&t=0&l=en

 

 

Concise Minutes:

 

 

 

Assembly Members:

 

Nick Ramsay (Chair)

Byron Davies

Keith Davies

Alun Ffred Jones

Eluned Parrott

Gwyn R Price

David Rees

Ken Skates

Joyce Watson

 

 

 

 

 

Witnesses:

 

Carl Sargeant, Minister for Local Government and Communities

John TC Davies, Welsh Government

Victoria Minshall-Jones, Welsh Government

 

 

 

 

 

Committee Staff:

 

Siân Phipps (Clerk)

Elizabeth Wilkinson (Clerk)

Gwyn Griffiths (Legal Advisor)

Andrew Minnis (Researcher)

Ben Stokes (Researcher)

Ffion Emyr Bourton (Deputy Clerk)

Kath Thomas (Deputy Clerk)

 

 

 

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Transcript

View the meeting transcript.

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1.  Introductions, apologies and substitutions

1.1 The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting.

 

1.2 Apologies were received from Julie James, for whom Gwyn Price attended as a substitute, and Dafydd Elis-Thomas.

 

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2.  Active Travel (Wales) Bill: Stage 1 - Evidence Session 1

2.1 The Committee took evidence from the Minister in charge of the Bill, Carl Sargeant AM, Minister for Local Government and Communities.

 

Action Points

 

The Minister agreed to provide the following:

 

·         Figures showing the changes in the number of people walking and cycling for recreational purposes since the introduction of Welsh Government initiatives;

 

·         A note providing more details about financial consolidation for the delivery of the Bill and other travel initiatives.

 

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3.  Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting

3.1 The motion was agreed.

 

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4.  Scoping paper for the Inquiry into Encouraging Entrepreneurship

 

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