Agenda - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee room 5 - Tŷ Hywel

and video conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 14 January 2026

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Robert Donovan

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddEconomy@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

09.15 - 09.30

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Public session

09.30 - 11.40

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest

09.30

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2 Inward Investment: Panel 1

09.30 - 10.30 (Pages 1 - 17)

Howard Rupprecht, Managing Director, CS Connected

Professor Nigel Driffield, Professor in Strategy and International Business Group – Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor of Economic Geography, and Deputy Head of Department (Research), London School of Economics

Attached Documents:
Research brief

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Break

10.30 - 10.40

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3 Inward Investment: Panel 2

10.40 - 11.40

Russell Greenslade, Director, CBI Wales

Gus Williams, CEO, Chambers Wales

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4 Papers to note

11.40

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4.1 Timetables for Bill scrutiny

(Pages 18 - 19)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Llywydd, and Chair of the Business Committee - 19 December 2025

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4.2 Follow-up from the General Ministerial Scrutiny session held on 3 December 2025

(Pages 20 - 21)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning - 19 December 2025

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4.3 Follow-up information from the Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 session held on 26 November 2025

(Pages 22 - 25)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs - 19 December 2025

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4.4 Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement

(Page 26)

Attached Documents:
Meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Group for Trade - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning - 22 December 2025

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4.5 Farming Connect procurement

(Page 27)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs - 5 January 2026

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4.6 Holyhead berthing incident, December 2025

(Pages 28 - 29)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Chair to the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales - 5 January 2026

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4.7 Follow-up information from the General Ministerial Scrutiny session held on 1 October 2025

(Pages 30 - 34)

Attached Documents:
Letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs - 5 January 2026

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5 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting

11.40

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Private session

11.40 - 11.55

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6 Inward Investment: Consideration of evidence

11.40 - 11.55

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