Interministerial Group for Business and Industry: communiqué 24 May 2022
Updated 14 February 2023
The Business and Industry Interministerial Group met on 24 May 2022. The meeting was chaired by Ivan McKee MSP, Scottish Government Minister For Business, Trade, Tourism & Enterprise.
Attendees
The attending ministers were as follows.
- UK government - Minister for Industry (BEIS), Lee Rowley MP
- Scottish Government - Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism & Enterprise Ivan McKee MSP and Minister for Just Transition, Employment and Fair Work Richard Lochhead MSP
- Welsh Government - Minister for the Economy, Vaughan Gething MS
- Northern Ireland Executive - Minister for the Economy , Gordon Lyons MLA
What was discussed
The Interministerial Group discussed:
- the Scottish Government gave a presentation on the recently published National Strategy for Economic Transformation, covering content and approach to delivery
- the Labour Shortages