19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Thank you. Thanks, Chair.
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Yes, if I could just conclude, I just want to return very briefly to what Katie from Trussell said. Now, in terms of the picture that you've painted for us of the importance of dovetailing all of these things together to avoid the need for emergency food aid…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
I would just like to return to the issue of emergency food aid. How can we move away—? Clearly, we need to consider preventative approaches, and we've discussed those a little, the dignity, the Big Bocs Bwyd, and the culture around food, but in terms of…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
how to maximise that spending through a whole-school system. I'd be interested in having more detail, if you could provide some on that, and some of those ideas, using that spend and that lever of free school meals.
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Yes, thank you. There's a great deal to consider there, and if you have, especially perhaps Robbie, you mentioned—
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Well, could I ask Janet, then, to give her views on what we've just heard from Simon, as a school head?
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Thank you. It's true, isn't it, that the money that's being spent on free school meals is a substantial amount. We heard in our previous session that it is a very powerful lever that Government has in terms of spending to improve food education, but also…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 2
Thank you. I just wanted to return to those questions as to how the Welsh Government can support this provision, particularly emergency food aid. Do you think that the balance, in terms of the support provided by Welsh Government to emergency food aid…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Yes, thank you very much.
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Thank you. Just one final question in terms of that balance between funding emergency food aid provision and then supporting those long-term preventative solutions to tackle food poverty: do you think that the Government is striking that right balance at the…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
I think, Pearl, you, in the evidence that you provided to us, have said that the current Government efforts to address the multiple challenges that face the food system remain fragmented across numerous policy areas. So, what changes are required to address…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Okay, thank you—
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Thank you. Did anyone else want to come in? Just to develop on that, what you're saying is that what we have at the moment isn't providing that pathway towards the outcome that we want to see, namely improved access to healthy, affordable and nutritious food…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to ask a few more detailed questions on Government strategies in this area. We've touched on them to a certain extent in relation to some of the challenges that you've already outlined. So, thinking specifically now about the…
19 January 2026 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Thank you, Chair. I'm a trustee of an independent foodbank, PANTRY, in Pontardawe.
13 January 2026 , Plenary
& 10. The general principles of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill and the financial resolution in respect of the Senedd Cymru (Member Accountability and Elections) Bill
We are fast approaching a transformative moment in the history of devolution, which will see the foundations of our democracy finally coming of age. It is vital that this process of constitutional reform is not simply a matter of updating structures and…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Diolch. I've raised with the Government on more than one occasion the impact funding decisions have on the delivery of safe, lawful and sustainable commissioned social care services for people with learning disabilities and autistic people. Your response has…
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. How is the Welsh Government ensuring that adults with learning disabilities and autistic people are supported? OQ63659
13 January 2026 , Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, and a happy new year to you, Llywydd, and to you, First Minister. And it will be a very happy new year for the people of Wales if they support Plaid Cymru in the elections. [Laughter.] But, to my question—[Interruption.]
29 January 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Diolch. Last October, I attended the opening of the phase 2 of the Clydach buried lock restoration scheme and the Swansea Canal Centre. The Swansea Canal Society does amazing work to bring this community asset to life. Canals run through many communities in…
29 January 2025 , Plenary
Questions to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs
5. What is the Welsh Government doing to improve access to, and the environmental benefit of, canals in South Wales West? OQ62215
27 January 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
It's something that we heard from a Rhondda Cynon Taf council officer. She said that, in her opinion, she thought it would be helpful, to have that kind of expertise and co-ordination and consistency, of course, then, across the local authorities, by having a…
27 January 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Just to come back on that point about the need for the programme and all these programmes to be connected, you've emphasised in your paper that the new Warm Homes programme is more connected and you've mentioned again this afternoon the importance of all…
27 January 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Thank you. Just one quick point on this smooth transition. We heard from Care & Repair that between April and September they only had six clients that they were able to refer to Nest compared to 60 in the same period the previous year. What do you think…
27 January 2025 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Fuel poverty and the Warm Homes programme: Evidence session with Cabinet Secretaries
Just very briefly on that emergency pathway, at present, that’s not going to go further than March this year. So, are you saying that you’re going to extend that pathway beyond March this year? And if not, why? And we’ve also heard evidence from people saying…
