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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Okay, we'll probably come back to that in later questions. Sioned Williams.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Quickly, Sarah, and then I'm going to call Sioned Williams.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
—registration. I think we're looking for—
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Okay. But we are doing that. The 'Claim what's yours' campaign is live at the moment. There's automatic—
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Okay. Very briefly, because I need to move on and call the next person.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
We need to focus on food. We're not going to fix the rent controls that we may or may not need, or the benefits system, or the private rented housing, that we haven't got enough social housing. We need to focus on food—here, you know. Okay.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Katie.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Okay. Solutions? Sarah, then Katie.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Robbie Davison first.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Thank you very much. I'll go to—. I think, Jane, both Simon and Robbie have indicated, and Katie. So, good luck, Jane. Simon, do you want to start?
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Very good. Can I call in Jane Dodds?
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Well, that's amazing. It's certainly a big turnaround from where I was told I could not donate good fresh food to a foodbank. So, that's fantastic news.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Sorry; I beg your pardon. Sarah Germain.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
If you just want to add something.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Thank you. I call in Jane Dodds.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Excellent. We'd be very interested in hearing about that. So, Robbie Davison, what are the key challenges that Well Fed faces to increase access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food and tackle food poverty meaningfully?
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Yes.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Okay. Before I move to Robbie Davison, could you just tell us in numbers how many of your families you've been able to encourage to cook from scratch?
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Well Fed.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Okay. Let's turn to Janet Hayward. You're not only the founder of Big Bocs Bwyd, but you're also the headteacher of a primary school, so I wondered if you could tell us what your experience is of the challenge we face in ensuring that every family gets…
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Okay. Thank you. To what extent does the Welsh Government's approach to food policy start to address these issues? Who'd like to go first? Simon Wright of Pobl y Gegin—Cegin y Bobl, I'm so sorry—and Wright's Food Emporium.
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Katie, I'm very pleased to welcome you, from the Trussell Trust.
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Welcome back to the Equality and Social Justice Committee, and we are now going to move to our second panel of experts into current access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food. So, the Food Standards Agency's latest survey shows that one in five are…
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Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Thanks, all of you. We'll now take a short break while we prepare for the next panel, which starts at a quarter to on the dot.
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Thank you, Chris.
