In terms of your extremely important aim of delivering a more sustainable, localised food system and strengthening the public procurement aspect, certainly this is something Plaid Cymru's always supported and we want to see an increase in the number and viability of local food supply systems. Currently, too much Welsh produce is being shipped out of Wales for processing, with the loss of much needed added value. We need to increase the processing capacity of Wales as a whole, and reversing the loss of local processing capacity will be a positive step for the communities that live and work in rural areas, and for animal welfare and to tackle the climate change agenda.

Professor Roberta Sonnino of Cardiff University described public procurement as the most powerful tool available to Governments to shape sustainable food economies, and I quote:

'It's an enormous percentage of our GDP, normally 13, 14 per cent in European countries, up to 70 per cent in developing countries, so it is a golden opportunity to decide what kind of food markets do we want to create, for whom and how.'

And as we all know, about 51 per cent of Welsh milk is processed beyond our borders, and 72 per cent of Welsh cattle are slaughtered outside of Wales. This doesn't make sense to me at all. And to fix this, we need to localise supply chains, and we need the ambitious targets for public procurement. Just imagine the joint economic and environmental benefits if 75 per cent of food procurement in Wales was sought from local suppliers. It's estimated that at local government level, an increase of 1 per cent in local procurement can lead to hundreds of new jobs created, or jobs protected.