, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Okay. Sarah Murphy is going to come in in a few moments, but, Hefin David, you have a question. A supplementary question.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Peter—. Thanks, Vikki. Can I just turn to the national food strategy, if I may? It appears to me that even those stakeholders who opposed the Bill expressed some support for the need for a national food strategy to bring everything together. Even the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
It's a good reminder to get these things turned off, isn't it, or muted.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Okay, we'll move on. Vikki Howells.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Okay.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Gareth.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Okay. Thank you, Luke. Sam Kurtz.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Thank you, Peter. I'm going to bring Luke Fletcher in now.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
And just with all those different moving parts that we saw in the letter—if we can call them 'moving parts'—obviously, it seems to me that it might be quite difficult to measure progress against all of those because there are so many different things. Is that…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
And you've already sort of suggested that the Minister's letter to the committee last week demonstrated a need to bring things together with an overarching strategy because of the complexity of all the different moving parts, in that letter. Have you had any…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
Well, one of the organisations that needs some convincing is the Food and Drink Federation Cymru. They have expressed some concern that the Bill might add some complexity and bureaucracy to the system, especially, obviously, for their members, and that that…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
It was a very lengthy letter with lots of different strands, wasn't it, Peter Fox, and I know that some Members here felt that it was the first time they'd seen a document bringing everything together. Obviously, it's not just the Minister that's taken a…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
So, we obviously saw a copy of quite a detailed letter from the Minister last week. You will know, Peter Fox, that the Minister's position appears to be that she's resistant to the Food (Wales) Bill on the basis that she thinks that pretty much everything is…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 8
So, we'll get straight in, then, to item 3 on today's agenda, evidence session 8 of the Food (Wales) Bill. I'm very pleased to be able to welcome the Member in charge of the Bill, Peter Fox MS, to today's meeting, along with Gareth Rogers, who is the Bill…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Papers to note
If there aren't any, then we'll move straight on to item 2 on our agenda, papers to note. We do have a letter from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd on the Welsh Government's response to the letter that was sent by Paul Davies in…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Good morning everybody and welcome to today's meeting of the Senedd's Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee. We don't have any apologies for today's meeting, so I want to invite any Members to declare any conflicts of interest.
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
You talk very passionately about independence, as, of course, all members of Plaid Cymru do, but do you accept that the fiscal gap means that you'd either have to raise taxes significantly or cut public spending significantly, which would have an enormously…
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
Is that okay, Deputy Presiding Officer?
, Plenary
Debate: The Final Budget 2023-24
Will you take an intervention?
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Well, I always reflect on my comments, but I can't, still, understand why on earth, given that the commission is supposed to complete its work in the current calendar year, you have allocated expenditure that takes it through to March 2025. You still haven't…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Can I welcome you back from your recent mission to Ukraine, which we were all cheering you on with, along with Alun Davies, our other Senedd colleague, and wish you a very happy St David's Day? I appreciate the response that you've given, and we have crossed…
, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
Diolch, Llywydd. Minister, will you provide a statement on the budget for the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
I'll now move a motion under Standing Order 17.42 that the committee resolves to exclude the public from the remainder of today's meeting. Is everybody content? Everybody's content, so we'll go into private session. Thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
Are there any further questions from Members? No; I can see that there aren't. If I could ask you just to provide some additional information to us, if I may, in relation to the point that Sam Kurtz raised, because of the sensitivities about the buying up of…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Annual Scrutiny - The Development Bank of Wales
Thank you, Vikki. That brings us nicely actually on to the questions that Sam Kurtz wanted to ask.
