Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:57 pm on 28 September 2022.
I thank you for that answer. Of course, there are two sides to producing food—it's supply and demand. I think we're coming fast-forward to Christmas, and people will be buying locally sourced food, and I think that there's a real opportunity here, perhaps more than ever, to focus people's minds on buying local—those people, of course, who have any money left to buy anything whatsoever after this budget. I would like to ask you, Minister, whether you can work with local suppliers to be able to sell their goods to the local market. We've seen a lot of this during lockdown, and there was really good practice that was adopted by local suppliers in terms of food hampers and suchlike. I think we have the potential to be in another market crisis, so I just would like to ask whether you're thinking along those lines, to carry on the very good practice and promote it, from two years ago, and to apply that now.