Carwyn Jones: Part of the problem, of course, is that cheap food is not healthy food. For so many people, they’ve seen a squeeze on their income since the crash of 2008 and they will quite often say, ‘Well, I’d love to eat healthier food, but the reality is I can’t afford to.’ The Member’s right, it’s not just about targeting health issues, it’s about ensuring that people have the skills...
Carwyn Jones: Well, I can say that the ‘Love Food, Hate Waste’ cascade training is available for communities and businesses. To date, WRAP Cymru have trained over 3,400 people in Wales and that helps consumers to make the most of the food that they buy. It’s a start. There’s more to do, but we can do more. We have already reduced the amount of food waste in Wales. Some 24,000 tonnes has been...
Carwyn Jones: Food waste in Welsh households has decreased by 12 per cent from 2009 to 2015. We as a Government fund the Waste and Resources Action Programme Cymru ‘Love Food, Hate Waste’ consumer campaign.
Carwyn Jones: Well, I do not believe that the American Government will want to have a free-trade agreement with anybody that is anything other than very, very positive for the US and negative for the other party to the agreement. Donald Trump has said he wants to tear up the trans-Pacific partnership. He wants to tear up the North American free trade agreement and have an agreement with the UK. Does that...
Carwyn Jones: I've explain the policy, and that is freedom of movement to work; something close to what the Norwegians have. It takes away the fears of some people that people move to a particular country in order to claim benefits. Whether that's true or not, we know the perception was there. And it is, I think, a reasonable position to take that most people in the UK would accept. Now, I mean, he is...
Carwyn Jones: How can you have full control over immigration when you have a large, open border with the EU?
Carwyn Jones: How can you have full control over immigration if you have a large, open border with the EU?
Carwyn Jones: We do work with the Scottish Government. We don't, clearly, have the same view on the final destination, as it were, but we do work with them and talk to them with a view to forming common ground where we can, and that is sensible diplomacy. Northern Ireland is more difficult, because, in Northern Ireland, the First Minister and the deputy First Minister had very radically different views on...
Carwyn Jones: I will, as I’ve done consistently since June. Of course, there’ll be nothing to stop this Assembly from implementing EU directives if it wishes to. If that’s something that the Assembly wants to do, there shall be no ban on doing that. It’s a matter of the democratic process. One of the contradictions that were expressed by the Prime Minister was that she said that the British...
Carwyn Jones: It’s a position we’ve held for many, many months. The phrase we’ve used is ‘full and unfettered access’. Single market participation amounts to much the same thing. What we have to avoid in the next few months and years is anything that impairs the ability of businesses to export from Wales and therefore makes it more difficult for them to employ people. It’s right to say that GDP...
Carwyn Jones: From our perspective, we will stand up for the rights of workers, even if he is indifferent to them.
Carwyn Jones: It is odious—I use that word again—to suggest that those people who are dealing with autism and who are dealing with and caring for those people with autism should be set against people who want to have their rights as workers. Isn’t it typical that the Tories’ attitude, as it always has been, is, ‘Set people against each other. Divide and rule.’ We will do all that we can to help...
Carwyn Jones: It is odious that the leader of the Welsh Conservatives tries to use people who are dealing with young people with autism, using that as a way to attack workers—[Interruption.]—attack workers in Wales and the rest of Britain. The reality is that unemployment is lower in Wales than it is in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland because of the actions of the Welsh Government. He talks...
Carwyn Jones: There are two reasons: first of all, we want to protect workers’ rights. His party—his party—want to remove competence from this Assembly over employment rights and regulations. It’s his party’s fault. We wouldn’t have to bring this forward at the speed that we’re having to take it if it wasn’t for the Wales Bill. So, he can’t sit there and try to claim it’s nothing to do...
Carwyn Jones: Well, the responses to the consultation will be considered in detail over the ensuing weeks, and, of course, there will be a discussion with the agriculture industry over those weeks, as part of the review that has taken place.
Carwyn Jones: Well, we can see the results for ourselves, and I can say that we are working with our learning disability advisory group to develop a learning disability strategic action plan. That will go out to wide consultation later this year in order to build on the good work that’s already been put in place.
Carwyn Jones: The Welsh Government is working to support the farming industry in Pembrokeshire, as in all parts of Wales.
Carwyn Jones: There is an unfortunate history in this place, where benefits have been devolved but without all the funding to follow. That happened with the council tax benefit. So, we’re not in favour of receiving any powers without the agreement of this Assembly, and we’re not in favour of receiving powers without the full funding to follow. So, if that was offered to us, we would consider it, but we...
Carwyn Jones: Well, it’s a matter, ultimately, for Qualifications Wales. They are responsible for the development and approval of qualifications in Wales. That said, I think it is important—and I take very much on board what the Member has said—to promote British Sign Language and also to promote the availability of qualifications in British Sign Language. It is a matter I will take up on his behalf...
Carwyn Jones: Well, the decision was taken to enable payments to be made uninterrupted to former recipients in Wales. It was an interim decision, designed to last until 31 March this year, while we considered which arrangements were appropriate to provide support in the longer term. And, following advice from the stakeholders advisory group, which does include organisations that represent disabled people...
