<OpeningPara>The
Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee has been set up by the Senedd to
look at policy and legislation, and to hold the Welsh Government to account in specific
areas. These areas include business, economic development, skills,
international trade, agriculture, fisheries and food.</OpeningPara>
<OpeningPara>The
Committee has six Members who come from the different parties represented in
the Senedd, and is chaired by Paul Davies MS.</OpeningPara>
<OpeningPara>Find
out more about the Committee, its members, and the areas it covers
below.</OpeningPara>
News
<news>The
Committee has published its Forward Work Programme for the Spring term
2024.</news><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=37432</link>
<news>The
Committee will next meet on Wednesday 13 December
2023.</news><link>ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=738&MId=13575&Ver=4</link>
<news>The
Committee has launched a consultation on the Development Bank of Wales inquiry.
This consultation will close on 4 January
2024.</news><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=42249</link>
<news>The
Committee published the responses to its consultation into Research and
Development on 16 November
2023.</news><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=42045</link>
<news>The
Committee published its report on Post-EU regional development funding on 12
September 2023, and a debate was held in Plenary on Wednesday 8 November
2023.</news><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=41085</link>
<news>The
Committee has published its Autumn
Bulletin.</news><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=37432</link>
Current Work
<inquiry>Development
Bank of Wales
inquiry</inquiry><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=42249</link>
<inquiry>Research
and
Development</inquiry><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=42045</link>
<inquiry>Nuclear
energy and the Welsh
economy</inquiry><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=41947</link>
<inquiry>Manufacturing
in
Wales</inquiry><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=41248</link>
<inquiry>International
Trade
Agreements</inquiry><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=40994</link>
<inquiry>Cost
of living</inquiry><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=39181</link>
<inquiry>General
scrutiny of the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and
Trefnydd</inquiry><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=37850</link>
<inquiry>General
scrutiny of the Minister for
Economy</inquiry><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=39047</link>
<inquiry>Annual
scrutiny of the Development Bank of
Wales</inquiry><link>mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=38709</link>