Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I want to thank Plaid Cymru for raising this debate today, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to contribute to it. The Government will be supporting the motion. I would argue that as a globally responsible nation, we, in fact, go quite a bit further than the motion. We clearly support the ambitions reflected in the motion, but the real challenge is in practical implementation, including accepting the need to prioritise, to be consistent in applying our principles and to work in social partnership with businesses and trade unions that find themselves needing to make major changes to their ways of working.

We are very proud of the work we have already been doing to reduce our impact on the planet. Our decision to withdraw support from exporters in fossil fuel overseas and refocus efforts towards new international opportunities in the low carbon and renewable energy sectors is one of many positive steps we have already taken to meet the 'globally responsible Wales' goal. To meet this particular goal of the well-being of future generations Act, we must ensure we take into account the impact of all of our policies in Wales at a global scale. Our work on biodiversity shows clear commitment to this goal, with the Welsh Government fully engaged in COP15 and a key partner in developing a new global biodiversity framework. The recent biodiversity deep-dive has focused on Wales's approach to implementing the target set by the Convention on Biological Diversity to protect at least 30 per cent of the land and 30 per cent of the sea by 2030. Recommendations have been published to support meaningful delivery of the 30x30 goal and immediate actions are being taken forward.

To turn to the second part of the motion, we're in the process of recalculating our own global footprint, which is being taken forward by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. This work will include the development of a global ecological footprint for Wales and improving our understanding of alignment between the different consumption-based metrics available, particularly in terms of carbon. We will also publish an estimate of Wales's consumption-emissions footprint, both within the UK and abroad.

Our programme for government outlines the need to take action and embed our response to the joint crises in all that we do. Our economic contract supports our vision for a well-being economy that is green, prosperous and equal. We are going further by developing a series of standards, and businesses in Wales are already encouraged to adopt the code of practice on ethical employment in supply chains. The economic contract will, indeed, continue to be a key element in our pursuit of social value, driving social change and global responsibility in our economy.

We have a strategic vision for the food and drink manufacturing and processing industry in Wales, with a new agricultural policy being developed and a food-focused public health policy, 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales’' These policies, alongside other key policies, such as free school meals and public body procurement guidance, collectively form an integrated policy package, all designed around the framework of the well-being of future generations Act.

We absolutely recognise that there is a lot of good work going on at a local level, with many shops and cafes opting for locally sourced food and drink. We want to harvest these efforts and pull together the various activities and support for food at community level by developing a community food strategy. This strategy will also look to empower industry to lead the way in enabling and encouraging shops, cafes and restaurants to sell locally sourced food and drink. Within this context, I'm able to support the amendment in Darren Millar's name as well. We can explore it as part of the work on the community food strategy, working with the industry. As I'm sure he will agree, they can and should lead on a charter of this kind. Through support to the agri-food industry and community food activity we can increase the proportion of Welsh produce consumed in Wales.

We absolutely remain committed to helping address food poverty in Wales. This year we have allocated £4.9 million to tackling food poverty, providing emergency food provision and to support the development of food partnerships that will help tackle the root causes of food poverty. To ensure children from lower-income families do not go hungry during the school holidays, we've announced £11 million of additional support until the end of February half term.

Food touches on each of the well-being of future generations goals. Procurement is therefore a powerful lever to ensure we put greater emphasis on sustainability, ethical sourcing, quality, nutrition, socioeconomic and cultural considerations rather than just cost. We are working with stakeholders to embed sustainability and foundational economy objectives into public sector food procurement. Public sector food procurement spend accounts for some £84 million expenditure a year. This spend relates to what the vulnerable and often frail in society consume on a daily basis, so it needs to be healthy, nutritious and sustainable food. We need to absolutely ensure that it continues to be sustainably sourced. And whilst I absolutely agree we must use public procurement to lever wide change, we should also put this in context: the total public expenditure on food procurement in Wales is similar to the consumer spending at just one major supermarket outlet in Cardiff.

Therefore, to truly address deforestation, as many Members have said, and conversion and social exploitation within supply chains, there needs to be a societal change in food purchasing patterns. This would be seriously advanced if the UK Government would encourage labelling requirements. I do call on Members on the benches opposite to join with us in asking the UK Government to seriously review its current labelling strategy, which is seriously inadequate to assist consumers to buy ethically. As Delyth pointed out very eloquently in her opening remarks, without that, many people who would seek to do the right thing are struggling to understand what it is they're actually buying. 

We are very strong on buying certain Welsh produce, such as milk, dairy and meat, but there are also products that are consumed in large volumes in Wales that are produced in relatively small quantities here, such as horticulture, as Jenny has pointed out. There is a substantial opportunity to turn this around, to calibrate supply with demand and to ensure more fruit and vegetables are served in school meals. [Interruption.] Go on, Jenny.