On social media, she commented: “No economic development – has this P&R given up on Guernsey?”

Deputies Sarah Hansmann Rouxel and Sally Rochester said they both broadly supported the government work plan and would back it when it came for debate on 28 January.

Kazantseva-Miller said: “It’s easy to say, well, everything is the economy.

“But unless you’ve got quite a laser focus about economic development and how that translates into then positive outcomes for the whole community, I do think it becomes too much of a bit of a blanket fish to some extent.

“But having said that, what we have agreed is that we will, as a committee, develop an economic development strategy, and that’s going to pull some of the different levers and work streams under one economic development strategy.

“I think that that piece of work around developing the economic development strategy is absolutely crucial.”