Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:14 pm on 30 November 2021.
First Minister, you'll be aware that I'm one of the greatest fans of the really important commitment to ensure all primary school children are going to be getting a free school meal in the future, but I don’t underestimate the challenges involved in that—getting the right personnel who know how to cook, as well as ensuring that it is affordable in the long term. It seems to me essential that we ask our local authorities to clarify exactly how many tonnes of potatoes and carrots and all the other things that go into food for school children they are going to need in the future, so that we can get our farmers to grow those things rather than having to source them from elsewhere, because in that way we are both nourishing our children as well as nourishing our local economy. So, I just wondered what conversations have been had with local education authorities on how to really start planning this important matter.