Thank you very much. I recognise the situation that food banks have been reporting. In my own constituency, for instance, last summer, both Llandrindod Wells and Knighton, which has an independent food bank, provided a summer scheme to assist families in those areas. The food and fun schemes are demand led and first require an expression of interest from local authorities. Once this has been received, the WLGA will contact the local authority and work together with them to determine which schools would be appropriate to host a food and fun club.

Whilst the scheme does indeed offer a healthy free breakfast and lunch, which attempts to tackle holiday hunger, I am keen for the focus of the scheme to be on the enriching activities around those meals, so that it offers learners who attend an opportunity to participate in physical activity, in visits and in learning opportunities that would not be available to them otherwise. We do know from the initial feedback from the pilot that the scheme, where it has been run already, has done a lot to address the issue of learning loss, a concept that we know exists, where many children fall backwards over the long summer holidays and schools then have to catch up when the new school term starts again in September. So, this is not just about food, it is about addressing issues of learning loss, physical activity and enrichment activities for children who perhaps would not have them available to them in other cases.