I’d like to thank the Cabinet Secretary for her statement, and to say at the outset that I should declare an interest, because my son has just started work in this sector about fortnight ago. So, I look forward to tasting more of the sector as things develop.

I would like to ask the Cabinet Secretary for a little more detail than she’s revealed in her statement in terms of how the strategy and the action plan have to change as a result of the decision to leave the European Union. She’s set out that that’s the challenge, but there’s nothing in the statement that tells us how she will respond to that challenge, and how things are to change. As the statement said, 90 per cent of food and drink exports from Wales do go to the rest of the European Union, and we can’t fundamentally change that in two years. Therefore we would still want to see those exports continue after Brexit. So I suppose there are some questions that have to be raised. They’ve been mentioned here—questions on local procurement, questions on the promotion of food from Wales more specifically as Welsh produce. But I would like to know that there’s been more thought put into this than has been revealed to date.

Also, could the Cabinet Secretary explain a little more about the £7 billion? It’s an aim, and I’m pleased to hear that we’re on target to achieve, or even surpass, that, but what exactly does that include? I realise that it is described as ‘food and farming’, and therefore I would like to know what the range of that £7 billion captures, and I’d like to understand particularly are we to extend Welsh produce, particularly in the tourism sector in Wales, because it is a sector that isn’t performing as well as it should in providing Welsh produce in the visitor attractions and hotels, and so on.

In the statement in June, which was the last time the Cabinet Secretary made a statement on this issue, there was mention of clusters, and I would like to know what’s happened and how things are developing in terms of clustering food developments. Just to give an example, I yesterday met some farmers from Carmarthenshire who were interested to know how they can process milk in west Wales and in Carmarthenshire perhaps, because at the moment some 0.5 million litres of milk leaves Carmarthenshire without being processed and having that value added to it in Wales. I would be interested to know if we could take the opportunity we have to do more of this in Wales, and to do more so regionally too.

Could the Cabinet Secretary provide the Assembly with an update on the future of the red meat levy? There’s been some mention of this levy, and there’s an event by Meat Promotion Wales, I think, tomorrow in the Assembly for us to know where the discussions are happening on the levy. Of course, we want to see that levy being used to promote Welsh produce, and red meat specifically, as much as possible.

In that context, although she has already responded to the question on PGI, I’m still not sure whether it’s possible for us to continue with the PGI designation or a similar designation once we’ve left the European Union, and particularly if we were to leave the single market. I just want some clarity on that issue so that we understand what we’re discussing here.

One thing I would like to hear from the Minister, and she hasn’t made this point yet, is that she is going to bring the food awards for Wales back. Of course we do have Great Taste, which are British awards. The specifically Welsh food awards were scrapped some three years ago. I think we need to review this now that we need to promote our own produce, and now that we need to promote in the areas of tourism and local procurement, and now that we’re leaving the European Union. We will need a strong identity. Yes, we will need a UK identity; there is still a single market there, as it were. But we do need a strong identity for the best produce of Wales, and I would like the Minister to look again at the need for specifically Welsh awards, because they were popular, they were a good way of promoting Welsh produce, and they were a good way of changing the food culture and people’s attitude towards food too.

Ar y pwynt olaf hwnnw ar ddiwylliant bwyd, hoffwn gloi drwy ofyn i'r Gweinidog beth mae hi'n ei wneud i wella a chau'r cylch ar wastraff bwyd. Roedd hi’n sôn am hyn yn ei datganiad, ond mae gennym lawer iawn o wastraff bwyd yng Nghymru ac yn y Deyrnas Unedig. Rydym yn gwastraffu gwerth tua £16 biliwn o fwyd bob blwyddyn, y gellid ei ddefnyddio’n dda—gellid defnyddio llawer ohono’n dda. Mae’r Alban yn debygol o gael targedau ar gyfer lleihau gwastraff bwyd. Mae Ffrainc yn siarad am ddeddfwriaeth ar gyfer lleihau gwastraff bwyd. A yw'n fwriad ganddi gyflwyno naill ai deddfwriaeth neu dargedau am wastraff bwyd dros gyfnod y cynllun gweithredu hwn hyd at 2020? Rwy'n credu y byddai hynny'n anfon neges gref iawn.

Unwaith eto, os caf roi enghraifft o'r hyn sydd wedi bod yn digwydd yn fy rhanbarth i, mae Transition Bro Gwaun, sy'n brosiect cymunedol yn Abergwaun, yn ystod y tair blynedd a hanner diwethaf wedi bod yn defnyddio gwastraff dros ben o archfarchnadoedd lleol i gynhyrchu bwyd mewn caffi cymunedol. Maen nhw wedi arbed 25,000 tunnell rhag mynd i wastraff dros y tair blynedd a hanner hynny ac wedi denu £145,000 yn ychwanegol o arian cyfatebol i Abergwaun y ffordd honno. Yn anffodus, mae bygythiad i’w dyfodol oherwydd datblygiadau ffyrdd newydd yn Abergwaun, felly rwy’n sicr yn gobeithio y bydd yr awdurdod lleol yn cynorthwyo gyda’i barhad. Nid wyf yn disgwyl i Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet ymyrryd o reidrwydd yn uniongyrchol yn Abergwaun, ond rwy’n gobeithio ei bod yn derbyn bod honno’n enghraifft dda iawn o sut y gallwn leihau gwastraff bwyd ac mae'n enghraifft o sut y dylem fod yn gwneud cynnydd pellach, gydag arweiniad cryf, gobeithio, gan Lywodraeth Cymru.