Part of 4. Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for European Transition (in respect of his European Transition Minister responsibilities) – in the Senedd at 12:44 pm on 15 July 2020.
Certainly. The role is to co-ordinate the Government's response in terms of planning for the reconstruction phase, as was set out in the joint statement with the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd yesterday. Policy responsibility for economic interventions obviously remains with the Minister for the Economy and Transport and North Wales. The task with which I'm engaged is to help co-ordinate and get the best possible understanding of what the likely impacts are going to be on Wales of various aspects of COVID, and for that to become a shared platform across Government, so that we can work in a joined-up way to address some of the challenges that his question suggests—so, some of the skills interventions, understanding the particular focus that they may need to have, how they relate to other questions around, for example, FE, HE and other support that young people in particular might need. So, it's to make sure there's a common understanding across Government, informed by the best possible level of engagement and expertise, that we identify both the risks that we need to address, and also, to reflect the point the John Griffiths made in his question earlier, where there are opportunities arising from that, that we're able to spot them in a timely fashion and support others to take advantage of them.