, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Social Justice: Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
I'm very grateful to have a chance to contribute to and respond to today's statement. As has already been stated, Holocaust Memorial Day is a day on which we remember all of those lives sadly lost in the Holocaust. With this year's theme being 'ordinary…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Excellent. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Thank you. Simon—closing words.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Excellent. Thank you. Terry.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Excellent. Just finally, I take it—I'm not putting words in the three of you's mouths—you're all very supportive of the Bill. Should the Bill fail, are there any mechanism within Government already, or policies, processes, which can adapt the core asks of…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Katie.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
[Inaudible.]—being a leader. Terry, in your answer to Hefin David, you wanted to see Wales as the leader of a sustainable food policy. If this Bill fails, is there a possibility of Wales being left behind, then, in the context of a strategy, of an overarching…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Excellent. One of your responses to Hefin, I'll come back to in a moment, but I'm just going to give Simon the opportunity to talk about this within the UK context.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Excellent, thank you. Terry.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd. In terms of the UK context, does the Bill suitably align with what's happening elsewhere, legislative and policy issues elsewhere? I know Peter on the first panel mentioned the good food Bill, I think it was, in Scotland. Does this, what is…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Excellent. Thank you, panel. Thank you for indulging me there, Chair.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Excellent. Thank you, panel. Sorry, Katie.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Excellent. Terry, anything to add specifically around resourcing?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
The point that Peter made in the first panel was that the long-termism of this, him saying that he himself wouldn't see potentially the benefits of this for 50 years' time, but it's about putting that long-term strategy in now for those future generations…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Well, on that point, Chair, if you don't mind, I've got a future question later on on resourcing. Do you mind if I continue on that, because you mentioned resourcing there? The rural affairs Minister has described the Bill as resource-consuming and…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Okay, that's interesting, because we as a committee have undertaken an inquiry into the agriculture Bill, and I think that was prevalent in a lot of that as well, that there's more common ground than is perceived, and it's interesting to hear you saying that…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Yes, that's interesting. Simon, I can see you were nodding along to what Katie was saying at that point. Anything to add?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
So, it needs, then, a separate food commission to look at this. I can see you nodding along, Terry. Would you say it needs a food commissioner to head that up, or, as Peter mentioned to us earlier, he was suggesting a chair and board of expertise? What do you…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2
Diolch, Cadeirydd. Good morning—it's still just morning. Good morning to you all. With regard to the food commission, Peter, in the food Bill, is proposing that a food commission should be handling this, but there are some who are saying that this could be a…
, 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
Interesting. So, in terms, then—. Let me figure this out in my head. I was listening intently there. If we're looking at this fiscally, would you say that those efficiency savings along the measures leave this potentially at a cost-neutral stage? Because of…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
I know we've mentioned that quite extensively this morning around malnutrition, obesity, diabetes et cetera. Is there any modelling specifically available as to what moneys could be saved from the health budget by ensuring that this is resourced sufficiently?…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
In terms, then, of resourcing going forward in terms of this process and the current pressures that are there, is this resource-intensive, or is this something that can assimilate into what is already being done via resource quite seamlessly?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Thank you very much, Chair. In terms of engagement, we've seen the consultation, and you've mentioned the percentage that have been in agreement with having this set up. How have you engaged with those public bodies, specifically those third sector…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Food (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
