Meetings
Research and Development
This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.
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Meeting: 18/09/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee (Item 2)
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- Transcript for 18/09/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
2 Apprenticeship Levy reform
Supporting documents:
- Letter from the Chair to the Secretary of State for Education, UK Government - 1 August 2024, item 2
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- Response letter from the Minister for Skills, UK Government - 22 August 2024, item 2
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Meeting: 18/09/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee (Item 2)
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- Transcript for 18/09/2024 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
2 Welsh Government response to the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee report: Research and Development
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 30/11/2023 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee (Item 3)
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3 Inquiry: Research and Development: Funding bodies
Harriet Barnes, Director of Policy and Funding, Higher
Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW)
Dean Cook, Director, Place and Levelling Up, Innovate UK
Dan Shah, Director of Investment Strategy and System Insight, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Supporting documents:
Minutes:
3.1 The Committee heard evidence from the panel on research and development.
3.2 The Committee agreed to write to the panel with questions not reached during the session.
Meeting: 30/11/2023 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee (Item 5)
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Inquiry: Research and Development: Business
Professor Justin Lewis, Director, Media Cymru
Andy Silcox, Research Director, Advanced Manufacturing
Research Centre Cymru
Professor Pete Burnap, Director of the Wales Cyber
Innovation Hub (CIH)
Minutes:
5.1 The Committee heard evidence from the panel on research and development.
5.2 The Committee agreed to write to the panel with questions not reached during the session.
Meeting: 30/11/2023 - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee (Item 4)
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4 Inquiry: Research and Development: Higher Education
Amanda Wilkinson, Director, Universities Wales
Professor Roger Whitaker, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research and
Enterprise at Cardiff University, Universities Wales
Lewis Dean, Head of the Wales Innovation Network
Supporting documents:
- Evidence paper - Universities Wales, item 4
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- Additional evidence paper - Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, item 4
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Minutes:
4.1 The Committee heard evidence from the panel on research and development.
4.2 The Committee agreed to write to the panel with questions not reached during the session.
4.3 Universities Wales advised that they carried out some economic impact work which looked across all Welsh regions down to sub-regional level which showed that Universities have impact even if not located in that area, and agreed to write to the Committee to provide further detail.