Meeting Venue:
Committee room 4
- Tŷ Hywel
and video
conference via Zoom
Meeting date: Wednesday, 25 February
2026
Meeting time: 09.30 - 11.49
This meeting can
be viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/15910
Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Andrew RT Davies MS (Chair)
Mick Antoniw MS (In place of Jenny Rathbone
MS)
Hannah Blythyn MS
Alun Davies MS
Luke Fletcher MS
Samuel Kurtz MS
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Witnesses:
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Rebecca Evans MS, Cabinet Secretary for
Economy, Energy and Planning
Jack Sargeant MS, Minister for Culture, Skills
and Social Partnership
Liz Lalley, Welsh Government
Jo Salway, Welsh Government
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Committee Staff:
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Rachael Davies (Second Clerk)
Nicole Haylor-Mott (Deputy Clerk)
Lucy Yarham (Researcher)
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1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions,
and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed
everyone to the meeting.
1.2 Apologies were
received from Jenny Rathbone MS, with Mick Antoniw MS present as a
substitute.
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2
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Economy and
Skills
2.1 The Committee heard
evidence from Rebecca Evans MS, Cabinet Secretary for Economy,
Energy and Planning, Welsh Government, accompanied by official Liz
Lalley.
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3
General Ministerial Scrutiny: Economy and
Skills
3.1 The Committee heard
evidence from Jack Sargeant MS, Minister for Culture, Skills and
Social Partnership, Welsh Government, and Rebecca Evans MS, Cabinet
Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning, Welsh Government,
accompanied by officials Liz Lalley and Jo Salway.
3.2 The Cabinet Secretary
committed to writing to the Committee with some further information
on several points raised in the course of the meeting.
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4
Papers to note
4.1 The Committee noted the
papers.
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<AI5>
4.1
The Chemicals (Health and Safety)
(Amendment, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations
2026
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<AI6>
4.2
Follow-up from the Committee meeting held
on 26 November 2025: Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget
2026-27
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<AI7>
4.3
Learning and Work Institute report: A
Work, Health and Skills Plan for Wales
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4.4
Follow-up from the Committee meeting held
on 21 January 2026: Inward Investment
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4.5
UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement
(TCA)
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4.6
Holyhead Port closure
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4.7
Local Growth Fund
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4.8
Report on the UK-India Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement: The Welsh Government
Perspective
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4.9
Follow-up from the Committee meeting held
on 29 January 2026
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<AI14>
4.10 Inward
Investment
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<AI15>
4.11 Farming
Connect Procurement
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5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to
resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and
under Standing Order 17.42(vi) for item 1 of the meeting on 5 March
2026.
5.1 The Committee
agreed the motion to exclude the public from the remainder of this
meeting, and from item 1 of the meeting on 5 March 2026.
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6
General Ministerial Scrutiny:
Consideration of evidence
6.1 The Committee considered
the evidence received under items 2 and 3 and agreed to seek
further clarification from the Cabinet Secretary in relation to the
figures for apprenticeships.
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