Economic Development & Transport Minister

As Minister for Economic Development & Transport in the Labour Welsh Assembly Government, Andrew is accountable and responsible for:

Tourism; Energy; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Industrial policy; Inward investment; the development of indigenous companies and business support; regional and urban development; European Structural Fund programmes such as Objective One; Demand-side employment issues (minimum wage, working time, etc).

The WDA (Welsh Development Agency), the WTB (Wales Toursit Board) and WEFO (Wales European Funding Office) are accountable to him.

Since the Assembly Election in May 2003, Andrew is now responsible for Wales´ transport policy, the Creative Industries and the Knowledge Exploitation Fund.

He is Wales´ eMinister with strategic co-ordinating responsibility for ICT (Information Communication Technologies) within the Assembly Government.