, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Welcome to all three of you. And I'd like to begin with a question to ask you how you respond to the view that existing policy and legislation could be used to achieve the food Bill's intentions. So, maybe if we start with Kelly.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 6
Okay. Good morning and welcome back, everyone. This is our sixth evidence session considering the general principles of the Food (Wales) Bill, and in this session we're taking evidence on educational issues. So, I'd like to welcome our witnesses and invite…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thanks, Sam. Do any Members have any supplementary questions that they wish to ask before we draw the session to a close? No. And do any members of the panel have any burning issues that they haven't been able to address yet that they'd like to raise as a…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thanks, Sarah. Some final questions now, then, from Sam Kurtz.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Any other views from the panel?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Who'd like to start on that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thanks, Luke. I'll bring Sarah Murphy back in now.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you. We're going to explore timescales a little more now, so I'll bring Luke Fletcher back in.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you. Amanda, do you have any views on this?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you. So, with that framework, you don't foresee any issues to developing and reporting on those local food plans.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you. Eryl, what's the view in Aneurin Bevan UHB?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you, and then, from a health board perspective, what's the view from Betsi Cadwaladr, Ceriann?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thanks, Sam. I'd just like to explore with our witnesses a little more around the issue of local food plans and what you think might be the barriers to developing and reporting on them. Maybe if we start with Angela.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Does anyone else want to come in on that? No. Everyone content? Okay, we will begin to look now at issues around the Welsh food commission. Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you, Sarah. I'll bring in Luke Fletcher now to explore this issue of targets a little further.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
And Angela.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Ceriann.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Amanda.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Ceriann.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Okay. Any takers to kick us off on that one?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Okay, thank you. We'll move on now, then, to a series of questions on food goals, led by Sarah Murphy.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Okay. I'll just check if anyone else wants to come in on that. Amanda.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you, Amanda, and thank you all for your response to that question. A follow-up question from me—don't feel you all need to answer this one, I'll leave it open for anyone who wishes to chip in. The Minister for rural affairs has described the Bill as…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you. And finally Amanda, for the view from the British Dietetic Association.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5
Thank you. Maybe if we go to Angela next, for the view from Public Health Wales.
