Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:09 pm on 11 January 2017.
I thank Jenny Rathbone for drawing the attention of the Assembly to Flintshire’s Food for Life scheme. It is, I think, a really good example of a scheme that does practical work on the ground in a way that brings together a whole number of agendas, both environmental agendas but also agendas in relation to public health, and good practice in terms of food preparation, but also it involves the National Procurement Service as one of the key players in it. It recently received an award from the Food for Life scheme. In a sense, the whole awards agenda is designed to be able to draw the attention of others to good work that is going on in parts of Wales. We will publicise it through the ‘Food for Wales, Food from Wales’ strategy. We will use the National Procurement Service as a second way in which that good practice can be drawn to the attention of others. And, as I said in my opening answer, the fact that we are embarked on a discussion with local authorities about greater regional working—that by itself offers better opportunities for things that happen in one local authority to be shared and then spread into other neighbouring councils.