Enterprise and Business Committee

Meeting Venue: Committee Room 3 - Senedd
Meeting date: 11 March 2015
Meeting time: 09.15
For further information please contact:
Marc Wyn Jones Committee Clerk 0300 200 6565 SeneddEcon@Assembly.Wales

Agenda

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Pre-meeting (09.15-09.30)

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1 Introductions, apologies and substitutions

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2 Business Rates Policy - Federation of Small Businesses (09.30-10.30) (Pages 1 - 18)

Iestyn Davies, Head of External Affairs (Devolved Nations), Federation of Small Businesses

Josh Miles, Policy Advisor, Federation of Small Businesses

Attached Documents:

Research Brief

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Break (10.30-10.40)

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3 Business Rates Policy - Ministerial Scrutiny (10.40-11.40)

(Pages 19 - 20)

Edwina Hart, Minister for Economy, Science and Transport

Tracey Burke, Director of Strategy, Department for Economy, Science and Transport

Chris Sutton, Chair of the Business Rates Panel

Attached Documents:

EBC(4)-07-15 (p.1) Minister for Economy, Science and Transport

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4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting.

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De-brief (11.40-11.50)

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5 Draft Report on Assisting Young People into Work (11.50-12.00) (Pages 21 - 93)

Attached Documents:

Draft report on Assisting Young People into Work

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6 Forward Work Programme (12.00-12.15) (Pages 94 - 95)

Attached Documents:

Summer Forward Work Programme 2015

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7 Papers to note

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7.1 Letter from Jane Hutt to William Graham regarding Business Rates Policy

(Pages 96 - 97)

Attached Documents:

EBC(4)-07-15 (p.2) Letter from Jane Hutt to William Graham regarding Business Rates Policy

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7.2 Written submission from the Welsh Retail Consortium (Pages 98 - 99)

Attached Documents:

EBC(4)-07-15 (p.3) Welsh Retail Consortium - Rates in Wales

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7.3 The British Retail Consortium (BRC) response to the administration of business rates in England (interim findings) (Pages 100 - 107)

Attached Documents:

EBC(4)-07-15 (p.4) The British Retail Consortium (BRC) response to the administration of business rates in England (interim findings)

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7.4 Summary of the rapporteur visits 12 February 2015 (Pages 108 - 111)

Attached Documents:

EBC(4)-07-15 (p.5) Summary of rapporteur visits 12 February

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7.5 Letter from The Older People's Commissioner for Wales to William Graham regarding the Older People's Skills Strategy (Pages 112 - 113)

Attached Documents:

EBC(4)-07-15 (p.6) Letter from the Older People's Commissioner for Wales to William Graham regarding the Older People's Skills Strategy

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