, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Allegations surrounding the Welsh Rugby Union: Evidence session with the Welsh Rugby Union
Can I ask what are your minimum expectations of the external taskforce?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Yes, thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Okay. Yes.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Okay. And does the Bill, in your view, align with current legislation and policy across the UK and at an international level as well? Do you think that it fits snugly with that?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Okay.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Okay. Notwithstanding the fact that it's a framework Bill, do we really need a Bill to do all those things?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Yes. All good. I'd just like to explore this issue in the explanatory memorandum that says the Bill seeks to provide opportunities for farmers to sell their produce into local and regional Welsh markets. Does the panel have a view on how that would be…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Chair, I'm conscious of time. I'm going to stop there.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay. And can I ask about the requirement—just on impact assessments and food production—for Welsh Ministers to carry out regulatory impact assessments on proposed new regulations? What are your views on that suggestion?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
So, with that in mind, can I look more local, then? As set out in the explanatory memorandum, how will the Bill allow new opportunities for farmers to sell in local markets in Wales?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Just to follow up on that, does the panel think the Bill aligns with legislation across the UK in the context of the UK supply chain, and at an international level too?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
We may have a comment on the length of time that the setting of targets takes, given what you've just said, but I think we need to discuss that as a committee before we decide what we're going to say.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay, I appreciate that. We weren't clear on exactly why the five-year process was chosen. But that's appreciated, thank you.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
The other issue is the timescales that are set for the targets of the national food strategy and the local food plans, and then the process of reporting and reviewing those targets. Are there any further comments about that within the Bill that anyone on the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Of course, you can provide more evidence to the committee in writing, if you want to, as well.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Yes, the extent to which the Bill requires sufficient consultation and collaboration on the development of targets, a national strategy and a food strategy, and how some of the collaboration and consultation on those can be achieved. Should it, therefore, be…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
I just wanted to come back to collaboration, and I think the last answer but one really covered it, but I would like some specifics. How can collaboration—to have achieved targets—and the aims of the Bill and the aims of raising standards be achieved through…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
I've got a very direct and swift question, really. The explanatory memorandum makes clear that targets are going to be used to meet the standards, but, of course, there are already an existing plethora of targets out there. How can a misalignment be avoided?…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Yes, so there's the opportunity to do it earlier. Was there a rationale behind the five years? Were you thinking about the Senedd term, the length of a Senedd term, or any other particular reason?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Okay, that's fine. And we heard from the Welsh Local Government Association that five years is quite a long time to have a gap between the reviewing process of the targets, and they suggested 12 months to consider the appropriateness of targets in the light…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Okay, and with that in mind, do you think it would be helpful to add a provision that Ministers should be able to revise the targets and would be required to revise the targets in addition to reviewing them? Do you think that would be in the spirit of what…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
So, Tyler, are you satisfied that the Bill, as presented, is clear on where you are consolidating from and what you are consolidating?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
So, would it be helpful, then, to have those misalignments set out at the very least in the explanatory memorandum?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
So, that brings me to the next point, which is the fact that there are many different reporting schedules there and different targets met at different times. Doesn’t that open up the risk that there might then be a misalignment to targets that are already in…
