Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:42 pm on 17 May 2022.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:42, 17 May 2022

Well, I think the leader of the opposition misunderstands what the Bank of England governor had to say. What he was referring to was the rise in the cost of food because of events in Ukraine and, as he said very clearly to the committee, because of Brexit. Now, there's a difference between the crisis caused by rising food costs and a lack of supply of food in supermarkets. We continue to be assured by his UK Government that there is no crisis in supply. That's different to the point that the Bank of England was making yesterday, which is the effect of supply-chain strains on food prices. That's the difficulty where the governor of the Bank of England was focusing his remarks.