Decision details

The Enterprise and Business Committee undertook an inquiry into Youth Entrepreneurship.

Terms of reference

• How effective is the Welsh Government’s approach to promoting youth entrepreneurship?
• What steps can be taken to improve or strengthen support for potential young entrepreneurs in Wales?

Issues that the Committee considered as part of these terms of reference included:

• What are the experiences of young entrepreneurs in Wales?
• What is the scale of Welsh Government resource and funding targeted at the promotion of youth entrepreneurship? Is it sufficient?
• What progress has been made in implementing the Welsh Government’s Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy and Action Plan?
• How does the Welsh Government’s approach to promoting youth entrepreneurship incorporate issues such as equality, social enterprise and regional variations in skills and training opportunities?
• What opportunities are presented by increasing youth entrepreneurship as a means of tackling youth unemployment and inactivity?
• To what extent is entrepreneurship embedded within secondary education, further education and higher education institutions in Wales?
• What is the evidence base for the Welsh Government’s approach to supporting and encouraging youth entrepreneurship?
• How does the Welsh Government monitor and evaluate its youth entrepreneurship activities? What impact has it had on the number of people starting a business?
• What examples of good practice in youth entrepreneurship policy can be identified within Wales, more widely within the UK and internationally?

Video presentation for the Inquiry into Youth Entrepreneurship - June 2013

The item started at 14.57

NDM5404 Nick Ramsay (Monmouth)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

Notes the Enterprise and Business Committee's Report on the Inquiry into Youth Entrepreneurship, which was laid in the Table Office on 14 November 2013.

The motion was agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.