, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Minister. As you know, more than 60,000 people across Wales currently rely on the housing support grant, which provides much-needed aid for those facing societal problems. The decision of your Government in its final budget to deliver a real-terms…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
6. What steps is the Welsh Government taking to help charities that provide housing support and homelessness services? OQ59248
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister, for that. The right of an assessment for unpaid carers to find out what support they need, if any, is a key principle of the charter of unpaid carers. Research from the Motor Neurone Disease Association has now shown that one in…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
6. Will the First Minister provide an update on the delivery of the unpaid carers charter? OQ59273
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Thank you very much.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
I was, perhaps, surprised by the huge level of support that there was for the need for something. We've had that in the results of the consultation; you know, 100 per cent of people said that there was a need for something. I never thought at the beginning…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Thank you, Sarah. No, I don't believe that the Bill needs to be amended here, as the commission's functions are drafted in a way that would allow them to advise and inform the Welsh Ministers on these important matters—all of the things you've just said. When…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Yes. I know that people have made that case, and very strongly. I think the resources you’d need to put in to bolster and strengthen and create whatever you needed to create to achieve this in the future generations commissioner’s organisation would be not…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Well, public services boards do a great job in delivering their well-being plans, which we know are in line with the future generations Act aspirations. But I don’t really understand why individuals believe that local food plans would duplicate well-being…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Thanks, Sarah, and thank you for those kind words. I'm enjoying this process. I've heard some of those concerns, and I can see that a huge amount of work has been put into local projects and community-based projects, and they, I think, have a fundamental part…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Yes. And I think that I've made it clear through all of the—. It's a very difficult position, a very difficult position. I'm being asked to find ways that might substitute my own Bill. I just can't see the logic to why I'd bring a Bill forward to find a way…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Hefin, the opportunity has been open all the way, from the day this Bill started, for us—. I offered this Bill to the Minister right at the beginning; I would have given it her: 'Have this; I'll work with you to help shape it.' The opportunity has been in…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Yes, it is really difficult.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Yes. Well, thanks, Hefin. You know, there's a lot of—. The Minister, the first thing she ever said to me was something you just said to me: 'You don't need legislation; you don't need unnecessary legislation.' And I've raised a couple of conversations with…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Obviously, Chair, I'm here wanting my Bill in its entirety to go through. That's what I've been asked by the Commission—by the Senedd—to do. And I've been asked at several occasions in committees, 'So, what if it doesn't happen, Peter? What are you going to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
As Gareth was saying earlier, it's premature to learn from the Scottish commission, because it hasn't yet been established. So, they're going to put it in place, and they've had Royal Assent, but we're not clear when they're going to commence using their…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
I absolutely appreciate that some stakeholders have said what they've said about a commissioner providing that figurehead, but there have been a range of views on this, and I'm still convinced that having a chair-and-board model would ensure that wide range…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Yes. You forget sometimes that they come through to your hearing aid. So, basically, no, Vikki, I don't think an internal board is the right idea; I think the commission is the right idea, to work with the Government to set strategy, and, if the Minister…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Good morning, Vikki. Well, that would be a step forward, I suppose, but I think the Minister is missing the point a little here if she said that. It is having an overarching national food strategy that should join up policy, not an internal board. Any…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
I'm glad you mentioned that. I'd overlooked that bit.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
If I had been the Minister and this was a Government Bill coming forward, it wouldn't have been shaped, perhaps, like this. I'll ask colleagues, perhaps, to come in in a second. What we are creating is the framework and we're giving the discretion to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Well, we haven't set targets; we've set the goals. There's an expectation for the Government, with stakeholders and others, to set the nature of the targets, and the WLGA would be a fundamental, I would have thought, stakeholder who would be looking to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
I've always made it clear that none has any more weighting than any other, but, I have to acknowledge, if people perceive that is the case, that is an issue, and we've got to, perhaps, then try and find amendments in the Bill. If there are wording amendments…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
As I said earlier, I've always been—. It's important to listen, and if there are appropriate amendments that we need to make, I'm not against that. I'd be happy to bring forward amendments at Stage 2 if the evidence from this stage supported it, and that goes…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
That is so right, Luke. It's very difficult to assess—and I've said this in other committees—in monetary terms the cost of this, because how do you factor in the positive benefits, the social benefits, the societal benefits, that social currency that this…
