, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Okay. Just quickly then, the million-dollar question: how would you see the alignment of that occurring—those strategies?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Okay. Yes, yes, please do.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Okay. Andy?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Excellent. That's helpful. But specifically around food targets, then, David, you mentioned potential duplicates and misalignment. Do you see that there could potentially be misalignments with some of those targets that are already in existence in policies…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 4
Thank you, Chair. Just to come back to the point, Andy, about you mentioning the targets being nebulous, the goals being nebulous, I think, in listening to the Member who brought forward this Bill and his team last week, because this is a framework, an…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Excellent, thank you. That's great, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay. Andrew.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay, thank you. Dylan.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Great, thank you. Rhys made the point there as to the NFFN, their preference for a food commissioner rather than a chair. I know Peter Fox in a previous panel mentioned a chair and a panel of expertise, a board of expertise. For the other three panellists…
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Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Diolch. Gareth.
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Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay. Diolch. Dylan.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay, thank you. Rhys.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay, that's helpful. Moving on to the Welsh food commission, I note respondents to the draft consultation on the Bill felt that a commission could have a stronger role in developing the targets and the national strategy, or even lead on the work. Andrew, I'd…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Okay. Would it be a fair assessment of the panel's views on this then that those policy targets, strategy targets, that are out there already in the ether—bringing them under a food Bill and putting them on a statutory footing strengthens the ability to…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Excellent. Andrew.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you. Rhys.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Excellent. Gareth, I saw you nodding along.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Excellent. Thank you. And then, Dylan, you mentioned food targets and, specifically, the 'Beyond Recycling' strategy includes targets for food waste and the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 includes emissions targets. So, is there a risk of duplication or…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Excellent. Andrew.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Excellent. Rhys.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Gareth.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 3
Thank you, Chair. Just quickly, off the back of Sarah's questioning, in terms of the sustainable farming scheme that is currently going through co-design, does the introduction of a Wales food Bill alter, or do you see that that could alter, the outcomes of…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you, Chair. I declare an interest as an honorary member of the British Veterinary Association.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Election of a temporary Chair
I'd like to nominate Darren Millar.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: Census 2021—Welsh Language Results
Thank you to the Minister for giving me sight of the statement before it was delivered—thank you. The results of the 2021 census were a disappointment, given this Welsh Government's ambition of a million Welsh speakers by 2050. I see it as a significant…
