Enterprise, Innovation and Networks Committee

The Committee’s remit was broadly based on and mirrored the portfolio of the Assembly Minister for Enterprise, Innovation and Networks. This portfolio covered:

• innovation and enterprise;
• industrial policy and business support;
• inward investment;
• promotion of indigenous companies and regional development;
• transport;
• energy;
• tourism;
• strategic co-ordinating responsibility for ICT; and
• the Structural Funds.

The main functions of subject committees, as set out in Standing Order 9, were: policy development; scrutiny of Ministers and Assembly Sponsored Bodies; and scrutiny of legislation. They also advised on budget allocations. Prior to the change in Ministerial titles on 1 April 2006, the Enterprise, Innovation and Networks Committee was named the Economic Development and Transport Committee.