Dirprwy Lywydd, in effect, women face a double burden of poverty and discrimination, and that needs to be changed and tackled. Food is centre stage in terms of many of these poverty issues today. The surge in the number of people seeking emergency food support in Wales evidences the desperate daily struggle facing many people up and down our country in just having access to basic necessities.

Following his visit to the UK, the UN rapporteur highlighted his concern that employment wasn't even a guarantee against people needing to use food banks, with one in six people referred to the Trussell Trust being in work. In 2017 to 2018, 98,350 three-day emergency food supplies were provided to people in Wales. Of these, 35,403 went to children. And, as we know, food poverty has a knock-on impact on the diet of citizens, and, in fact, the Food Foundation has shown that 160,000 children in Wales are living in households for whom a healthy diet is becoming increasingly unaffordable. Given that we are not facing a food shortage in Wales, we need a shift of focus from the provision of food aid to boosting incomes so that there is equitable access to a wholesome and nourishing diet. Without a change of direction, we risk food banks becoming an institutionalised fixture of Welsh society. This cannot be what any of us wants.