Speeches and questions

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Just very, very briefly, then we'll have to move, on I'm afraid.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Okay.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Andy, you wanted to come in on this. Andy.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Perhaps, Simon, would you like to come in? I think I can see, Simon, you perhaps indicated you'd like to come in on this.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Thank you, Andy. Thank you, Vikki. I will bring in Jenny Rathbone. Can I just ask you to be as succinct as possible? Time is marching on, so, if everybody could be as succinct as possible, I'd appreciate that very much. Jenny.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Andy, would you like to come in on this very, very quickly?

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Simon.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Gwyn, would you like to start with that?

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Diolch, Luke. I'll now bring in Vikki Howells. Vikki.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Thanks. I'll now bring in Luke Fletcher. Luke.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Simon.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Thank you, Sam. Before I bring in Luke Fletcher, Jenny, you just want to come in on this point.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Okay, thanks. I'll now bring in Sam Kurtz. Sam.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Andy.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Yes. Simon and Andy, do you believe that the definition should be on the face of the Bill? Simon.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

And should the definition be on the face of the Bill, in your opinion?

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Thanks. Gwyn Howells.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

And Simon Wright.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Thank you very much indeed for those introductions and thank you for being with us this morning. Perhaps I can just kick off this session just by asking a fairly general question. You'll know from the Bill that the Welsh Government has used the United Nations…

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Thank you very much. And Gwyn Howells.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

Thank you for joining us while you're on holiday. We appreciate that very much. Simon Wright.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Agriculture (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 5

We'll move on, therefore, to item 3, namely an evidence session on the Agriculture (Wales) Bill. This is the fifth evidence session considering the general principles of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill. We're taking evidence today relating to the food supply…

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Paper(s) to note

We'll move on to item 2, papers to note. There are two papers to note. Are there any issues to raise from these papers? No.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Anybody else? No.

27 October 2022, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

Welcome, everyone, to this meeting of the Senedd's Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee. I haven't received any apologies. Could I note for the record that we will be joined today by Llyr Gruffydd, Delyth Jewell and Jenny Rathbone, members of the…