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Interministerial Group for Business and Industry: communiqué 24 May 2022

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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
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