Public Procurement

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:15 pm on 18 June 2019.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 2:15, 18 June 2019

Thank you very much, First Minister. Obviously, the declaration of a climate emergency means we have to reduce our carbon emissions in everything we do, and that, of course, includes reducing food miles. When we are aware that the front runner for the Tory party leadership seems determined to take us out of the European Union with or without a deal on appropriately named Halloween day, when we celebrate the dark arts, that will of course hugely disrupt all our food supplies, including raising the prices of any vegetables and fruit that we import. So, I wondered what plans the Welsh Government has to stimulate an increase in horticultural production in Wales, so that we can supply our schools, our hospitals and our residential homes with fresh local produce.