Enterprise and Learning Committee to hold historic first cross-cutting scrutiny session.
The National Assembly’s Enterprise and Learning Committee will hold the National Assembly’s first ever cross-cutting scrutiny session on Wednesday October 17 when Committee Members will scrutinise 3 Ministers on issues within the committee’s remit.
Members will quiz Economy and Transport Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones; Jane Hutt, Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills and Heritage Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas on the progress of the Wales: A Vibrant Economy strategy, the progress of structural funds programmes, and departmental performance since the mergers of Assembly Sponsored Public Bodies into the Welsh Assembly Government.
Gareth Jones AM, Chair of the Committee, said: “The new structure of the National Assembly allows proper scrutiny of Welsh Assembly Government Ministers for the first time. The Enterprise and Learning Committee has a very wide-ranging remit which covers the portfolios of several Ministers, as indeed do some of the government’s policies. Therefore it is appropriate to scrutinise all the ministers involved on these issues as a whole. I am proud that the Enterprise and Learning Committee is the first to adopt this new way of working.”
The meeting takes place in Committee Room 3, the Senedd from 9.00am until 12.00pm.