Part of 3. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:16 pm on 30 January 2019.
Thank you for that interesting answer. I would agree with you that Charlton House tries very hard and it isn't just down to the caterer to reduce the food waste. But as Lesley Griffiths, some 18 months ago, suggested that we should be halving food waste by 2025, it's obviously really important that we in the Assembly are showing the way and not just suggesting that other people do that. Clearly, in a country where many, many people do not have enough food to feed themselves, food waste is an offence, really. But I appreciate that when you're in the hospitality industry, it can be very difficult to control food waste because people order food that people don't turn up to eat. However, I do think that we need to all focus on this and that when we're organising or hosting events we ensure that whoever's paying for that food is thinking very clearly about exactly what they're going to need and the numbers they're going to need it for, but also if we could institute some form of disbursement of surplus food to those who are in need of food, and there are many of them, unfortunately, in our capital city. So, it'd be great if we could have some further conversations on how we might be able to do that in order to reduce, rather than increase, the amount of food waste we're generating.