7. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Food Security

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:54 pm on 23 March 2022.

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Photo of Andrew RT Davies Andrew RT Davies Conservative 5:54, 23 March 2022

As a man used to say in Dad's Army, 'They don't like it up 'em'. [Laughter.] That's the long and the short of this Government, because what was delivered today in the spring statement was a solution to the cost-of-living crisis. What we heard from the Minister was nothing to deal with the food security issues that we're facing because of the Ukrainian crisis. That is a simple fact. Ukraine and Russia control 30 per cent of the wheat that is exported around the globe. What is happening in Ukraine will have devastating consequences for the whole world. I will draw on the comments of the head of the UN food programme, David Beasley, who said, 'If you think we are going through hell on earth now, you just wait'. That is what's going to happen to the food supply that is unfolding in Ukraine at the moment.