Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 16 October 2018.
Obviously, we have the Wales Audit Office to monitor the detail of these things. I just wanted to ask you about the wider picture in terms of the procurement power that we have. We have a public sector that spends over £4 billion each year on procurement, and I'm very interested in how we might be able to procure more of our spend in Wales so that we're generating local jobs rather than in multinationals that then export the profits.
I'm particularly interested in work that's been done by the National Procurement Service around procuring food. I'm concerned to see from the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee's report last May that there is no public source of accurate and up-to-date figures on public sector procurement of Welsh food, so I'd be keen to learn how we can improve the procurement of local food in Wales, because, obviously, that would be good for our businesses and also good for our health.