Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:04 pm on 21 June 2016.
I particularly welcome the actions on food poverty, and I am pleased that she mentioned the initiative that was taken in Cardiff by Food Cardiff—the school holidays initiative. One of the things that I’m very concerned about is waste. I held a short debate on waste during the last Assembly and there was a huge amount of public interest. As a result, I had some sort of training sessions in my constituency. Obviously, it’s not just the public themselves who waste food, but Tesco in particular—I think the amount of food it wastes went up 4 per cent in the year up to April 2016. So, I was wondering whether there was anything that could be done to incentivise businesses not to waste food. I know that you are going to review all of the food awards—I think that’s part of your action plan—and I just wondered if you could build into any of the food awards manufacturers who prevent waste.
The other issue, as part of this debate, is I held meetings with WRAP Cymru and other organisations, and another issue that I think is very important for food is the packaging of food. I know we want to have the Welsh brand on the packaging, but is there anything that can be done to try to reduce the amount of packaging that is used while still retaining the identification of the Welsh brand?