I welcome very much the commitment that Rebecca has given to ensure that all free-school-meal children, in term time and in the holidays, are getting one meal a day, right up to Easter next year. This is a hugely complex issue, and it's much more than about that one meal a day. The importance, for example, of the Food and Fun programme isn't just the quality meals lovingly produced by the staff, who have a commitment to good food for all. It is the fact that the children are given the tools to know what is good for them, to help them grow strong and fit, and helps to protect them from the blast of the multinational companies who advertise things that encourage children to eat stuff that is going to kill them, or at least reduce their quality of life when they get older.

My long-term aspiration is universal free school meals for all primary school children, delivered to Food for Life accreditation standards, as determined by the Soil Association. Some local authorities in England still manage to do that, despite the hammering that councils and areas of deprivation have had by the deliberate policy of reallocating large slices of their budget to better-off, leafier parts of the country, which, as Neil Hamilton points out, happen to also be Tory-voting areas, or so they think.

I am a realist, however. We need to source a far bigger slice of the ingredients of our school meals before we can afford to deliver on that aspiration, so I welcome the extra £3 million for the foundational economy, which goes some way towards that need, but it's a long way off from where we need to be. We simply cannot afford to see the leakage from public expenditure going to companies outside Wales on the scale that currently happens. We must keep going with mainstreaming the foundational economy pilots that have proved their worth, in order to have the circular economy and the local food networks we need.

Whilst I welcome Plaid's conversion to the importance of food for children, I do not welcome the Plaid attack dogs denouncing me for somehow being responsible for children going hungry. This is way more complicated than ensuring that more children are eating a decent meal once a day. It's a cultural issue as much as an economic one. Italy would never allow the quality of food that some of our children are getting to be delivered to us, and we need to address that.

We have to listen to the fact that in the last financial year, 20 per cent—20 per cent, one in five—of our children entitled to free school meals did not take up that entitlement. Just because there's been a big increase in the numbers getting free school meals, it doesn't mean that we have in any way dented that one in five children who do not get what they're entitled to. It's much more complicated than that.

One of the issues is the way in which the benefits system works, and the fact that there's been no increase in the housing allowance means that there's a huge shortfall in what many of my constituents have to pay when they're living in private rented accommodation. And guess where that shortfall in what the housing allowance is prepared to pay and what they actually have to pay to keep a roof over their head—where does that money come from? That money comes from what they should be spending on food. So, I absolutely think that one of the most important things that this Government budget is committing us to is the building of more affordable, fully insulated homes, using the latest timber-framed, pre-constructed technology. That is one of the ways in which people who simply cannot afford to be living in this badly maintained private accommodation are going to be helped out of poverty.

There are other ways in which we can help poor families in the here and now as well: £20 million for active travel. Just imagine the freedom giving a child a bicycle to get to school gives them; they can arrive on time and leave when they've finished having all the enrichment activities, and also not needing to travel by school transport in a time of the pandemic. These are some of the things that we need to be thinking about. We have to have a much more preventative approach to all the aspects of our budget to ensure that we have a fitter, healthier, living longer and to a better standard of living for all our citizens.