Agenda and minutes

1.1        The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting.

1.2        Luke Fletcher MS declared that he sits on sub groups of the Tata Steel UK Transition Board.

1.3        Apologies were received from Hefin David MS.

2.1     The Committee noted the papers.

Alasdair McDiarmid, Assistant General Secretary, Community Union

Tom Hoyles, Press Administration and Research, GMB Union

Peter Hughes, Unite Wales Regional Secretary, Unite the Union

3.1     The Committee heard evidence from the panel on the future of Welsh steel.

Ben Burggraaf, Chief Executive Officer, Net Zero Industry Wales

Professor Dave Worsley, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University

Dr Clare Richardson-Barlow, University of Leeds

4.1     The Committee heard evidence from the panel on the future of Welsh steel.

Dr Dean Stroud, Cardiff University

Professor Vera Trappmann, Comparative Employment Relations, University of Leeds

5.1     The Committee heard evidence from the panel on the future of Welsh steel.

5.2     Professor Vera Trappmann agreed to write to the Committee to provide additional information on managing the transition of the workforce and learning from other countries in how to manage this transition. This was supplementary to Professor Trappmann's written evidence provided for the meeting itself, which had been noted by Members and would be published in due course.

6.1     The Motion to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting was agreed.

7.1     The Committee considered the evidence received.