, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Who wants to go first on those questions? Robbie.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay. Thank you, Jenny. I'll now bring in Hannah Blythyn. Hannah.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Sorry, Jenny. Katie Palmer would like to come in on this as well.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Yes, thank you, Sam. I'll just very briefly bring back Jenny Rathbone. Jenny.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Yes, thank you, Luke. I'm also conscious of time, so if I can just ask you to be as succinct as possible, we've still got a few topics we'd like to get through. I'll now bring in Samuel Kurtz. Sam.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Sorry, Luke, I think Katie Palmer would like to come in on this as well. Katie.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay, thank you, Jenny. I'll now bring in Luke Fletcher. Luke.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Thanks. I'll now bring in Jenny Rathbone.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay, thanks. And Robbie Davison.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay, thanks. Edward Morgan.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Obviously, Peter Fox wanted to introduce a food Bill, and the Government, obviously, at that time said that they would actually try to improve working across the Government. Do you think that has improved since, obviously, the Bill fell?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay. Kevin Morgan.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
And how well understood is the concept of the foundational economy across the Welsh public sector and its key stakeholders, do you think? And what impact does this have on the ability to deliver on this agenda? And how could this understanding be improved, in…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay, thank you. Katie Palmer.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay. Kevin Morgan.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Yes, thank you very much. Robbie Davison, you wanted to come in as well. Thanks.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Okay.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
There we are. Well, thank you very much indeed for those introductions. Perhaps I can just kick off this session with a few questions. Can you briefly outline the role you and your organisation actually play in the foundational economy, and comment on the…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Would you like to—?
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
And Katie Palmer.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Thank you. Kevin Morgan.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
Thank you very much. Edward Morgan.
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Foundational Economy: Panel 3 - Food sector
We'll move on, therefore, to item 3 on our agenda. This is the third evidence session for our inquiry into the foundational economy, and, in this session, we will be focusing on the food sector. Can I therefore welcome the witnesses to this meeting? Before we…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Papers to note
We’ll move on, therefore, to item 2, which is papers to note. There are a number of papers to note. I won’t go through every one of them, but can I note one paper, which is paper 2.8, which is the letter from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary…
, Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions, and declarations of interest
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this meeting of the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee in the Senedd. Can I welcome Hannah Blythyn to her first formal meeting of the committee? Hannah is replacing Vikki Howells, who resigned her membership of…
