16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Well, we know we're up against big food, who spend billions telling you to go to some place with a yellow sign.
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay. Is there anything you want to add to that, given that we are—?
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay. So, that's why Government has to lead.
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Yes.
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Talking about it.
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Because at the moment, the people who are responsible for putting the food on the table are having to deal with a menu that's not relevant to the seasons that are changing, what's fresh and available, and they're having to deal with, 'Oh, there's not enough…
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
The top question for me is: Chris van Tulleken says that the main driver of our very sick population and the obesity epidemic is ultra-processed food. So, why haven't we banned ultra-processed content from food in our schools, prisons, hospitals and care…
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Thanks.
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay. Robbie Davison, should the Government be facilitator or interventionist?
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
I'll go back to the original question: should the Welsh Government be a facilitator or an interventionist? They still haven't got round to changing the healthy eating guidelines, which are completely out of date and inappropriate for understanding what…
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
BLFF?
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Edward Morgan, you talked about how procurement has changed, yet we still have absolutely no movement on the amount of horticulture we need to feed our children in our schools fresh food. It's all coming from somewhere else in the main. I understand that…
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Katie, you wanted to come in. We heard in our earlier evidence that we should be moving towards the Welsh Government having a facilitating role rather than an interventionist one through the grants that we've just heard about. What's your comment on that?
16 October 2024 , Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Thank you. I just want to have a look at the effectiveness of the Welsh Government's overall approach to the foundational economy, because we've been talking about this for nearly 10 years or maybe longer. Professor Karel Williams was quite critical of the…
15 October 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning: Energy and the green economy
Four quick questions. How many public buildings have solar tiles on their south-facing roofs, and what's your strategy for increasing that number, given that all public buildings are supposed to be net zero by 2030? When will the framework enshrined by the…
15 October 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Circular economy opportunities and outcomes of Circular Economy Hotspot Cymru 2024
—that they are making a proper contribution to their own local authority's income.
15 October 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Circular economy opportunities and outcomes of Circular Economy Hotspot Cymru 2024
—plastics and paper because of the commercial sensitivities. They want to get the best possible price, they don't want to reveal their hand. So, I feel, in order to really get people to understand why this is so important, perhaps the Government could publish…
15 October 2024 , Plenary
Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Circular economy opportunities and outcomes of Circular Economy Hotspot Cymru 2024
Thank you. I agree with Carolyn Thomas: this really is a good-news story, and I was delighted to have a quick look at what Benthyg Cymru was offering in my area, just being intrigued, and I was really heartened to see that you can rent an eight-person tent…
15 October 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you for that initial answer, which sounds like a very challenging target. Because in the context of one third of all food produced across the world never being eaten, and contributing at the same time to 10 per cent of global carbon emissions, these are…
15 October 2024 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
6. What is the Welsh Government's policy on reducing food waste? OQ61727
14 October 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
Therefore could we, under Standing Order 17.42, now exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting?
14 October 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Papers to note
We've now got three items of correspondence to note. Do any Members want to raise anything or can we just agree to note them in public? I see no disagreement.
14 October 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
Fine. We'll pursue that with Ministers when they come in. Thank you very much indeed, all of you, for your evidence. We'll send you a transcript, which you can look at and make sure that it's a correct record of what you wanted to say. Thank you very much…
14 October 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
What is Business Wales doing about it? We can ask them, obviously.
14 October 2024 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 7
I understand that. I completely get that. Why have we lost this person with a lived experience of learning disability? Is that because by their personal choice they went on to do something else?
