, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay, thank you. Just my final question, then, and Rhys, you've mentioned food security, but the Food Policy Alliance Cymru advocated for the concept of food sovereignty over food security. The explanatory memorandum says that there will be no reference to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay, thank you. Andrew, do you, as well?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you. Just to follow up, Gareth—. Thank you very much, Dylan for the NFU Cymru evidence paper that you provided, and you just related to it then when you said that NFU Cymru has called for public procurement and growing food production to be goals in…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you very much. Gareth, can I come to you?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you very much. Rhys, did you want to come in?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay, brilliant, thank you. My colleague is going to come in and ask some more questions about targets in a moment. Did anybody else want to come in on this? Anything you think should have been added in, or whether or not you're happy with the changes that…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Do you have a view on how to deal with that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you very much, Chair. Thank you for being here today. Welcome, Dylan, as well—Gareth, sorry, you were on the screen. Just to start with, then, I'm going to look at the food goals. Respondents to the draft Bill consultation said that the Bill should do…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Speaking of Bridgend, before being elected, I was a trustee to Brynawel drug and rehab centre, which is in my colleague Huw Irranca-Davies's constituency of Ogmore. They offer a wide range of holistic approaches to support people with their rehabilitation…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 6: Sub-groups of the SPC (Amendments 44, 74, 45, 46, 47)
Thank you, Chair. Just to say that I think there have been a lot of suggestions throughout this process about what type of sub-groups to have, and, whereas I do think that the suggestion that you've made is something that could certainly be looked at by a…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Group 2: Social Partnership Council: political representatives (Amendments 13, 17, 19, 21, 26, 30, 33, 37, 51)
Thank you, Chair. The social partnership council is not intended to be a political forum; it is meant to be a mechanism for bringing together Welsh Government and social partners in support of the duties set out in the Bill, and, more widely, our well-being…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you so much, Chair. I'm very conscious of time, so I'm very happy to leave it there and we can follow up in writing with the other questions. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Absolutely. So, it would be similar to the make-up of the social partnership council, then, but instead, I guess, of—well, unions would be involved, but you'd have those networks around the table as well.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Sorry, can I just come back on that point? I suppose, you are right—it’s going to take time with the sustainable farming scheme. But what you said—and Simon, I think you were saying this before as well—is that, really, the strategy and the goal should be…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you ever so much. That’s a wonderful, very comprehensive answer there. I just wanted to come to Professor Marsden if that’s okay. You mentioned about the priority of the goals and how they should interlock—I like your Venn diagram. Because this is one…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you. Katie, if I can come to you, because I was going to follow up specifically about Food Policy Alliance Cymru's alternative approach to the secondary food goals, which I read with great interest and I raised in the previous session that we had…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay, thank you very much. I can't see, but would anybody else like to come in?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you all for being here today. I'm just going to ask an open question to begin with: what are your views specifically on the food goals that have been set out in the proposed Bill? And Simon, as we're both on screen…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Thank you. Just to come in very quickly, Chair, just to say, Peter, I absolutely subscribe to everything that you're trying to do with this Bill, I absolutely do. There's no political differences here. What I'm saying is, looking at this—and this is our first…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Okay. Can I just come in here, then? What I would say is that the social partnership and procurement legislation is much further along than this, right? And there is absolutely the potential for this to be put into legislation—your primary and your secondary…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. What springs to mind for me here, so we're looking at statutory guidance, and you said that it's about advising, informing, guiding, but then there is no guidance. And it's about collaboration, encouraging co-production, and that they may…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Thank you. I would have to come back and disagree on this. I don't think that they're similar; I think that one is sectoral, I think that one is integrated, as they've set out. I think, going forward, this is something that I certainly would like to return to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Okay, thank you. And, then, my final question. One of the comments that we've had is that the secondary food goals are sectoral and work against the need to take an integrated approach to the food system. And, I suppose, for myself, looking at this, the goals…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Wonderful, thank you. And then, in terms of the secondary food goals, which are laid out in table 1, stakeholders have raised some concerns that some of the goals may be given higher priority. Some felt that there needed to be a balance, whilst others called…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Well, if I could just come in just to explain, then, what I'm referring to. The goal is Wales's vibrant culture and thriving Welsh language—that's what's in the well-being of future generations Act, and that is described in it as 'A society that promotes and…
