Agenda - Economy, Trade, and Rural Affairs Committee

Meeting Venue:

Hybrid – Committee room 1&2 Senedd

and video Conference via Zoom

Meeting date: 19 January 2023

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Robert Donovan

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddEconomy@senedd.wales

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Private pre-meeting (09.15-09.30)

 

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Public Meeting (09.30-12.10)

 

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1       Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

(09.30)                                                                                                             

 

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2       Papers to note

(09.30)                                                                                                             

 

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2.1   Letter from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd

                                                                                                     (Pages 1 - 2)

Attached Documents:
Community Food Strategy

 

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2.2   Letter from the Minister for Economy

                                                                                                     (Pages 3 - 5)

Attached Documents:
UK Levelling Up and Shared Prosperity Funds

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2.3   Letter from the Chair of the Business Committee to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd

                                                                                                     (Pages 6 - 9)

Attached Documents:
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill
Letter from the Chair to the Chair of the Business Committee

 

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2.4   Letter from the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

                                                                                                 (Pages 10 - 11)

Attached Documents:
The Organic Production (Amendment) Regulations (No. 2) 2022

 

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2.5   Letter from the Minister for Economy

                                                                                                 (Pages 12 - 13)

Attached Documents:
Written response to questions from the Committee’s General Scrutiny session on 7 December 2022

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3Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 1

(09.30-11.00)                                                                           (Pages 14 - 38)

 

Peter Fox MS, Member in charge

Tyler Walsh, Member of the Senedd Support Staff

Gareth Rogers, Bill Manager

Sam Davies, Legal Services

Aled Evans, Legal Services

Elfyn Henderson, Senedd Research

 

Attached Documents:
Research brief

 

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Break (11.00-11.10)

 

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4       Food (Wales) Bill - Evidence session 2

(11.10-12.10)                                                                                    (Page 39)

 

Katie Palmer, Programme Manager, Food Sense Wales / Secretariat, Food Policy Alliance Cymru

Simon Wright, Director of Food and Rural Economy, University of Wales Trinity St David / Owner, Wright’s Independent Foods Ltd

Professor Terry Marsden, Professor Emeritus in Environmental Policy and Planning, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University

 

Attached Documents:
Evidence paper - Food Sense Wales

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5       Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting

(12.10)                                                                                                             

 

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6       Private

(12.10-12.20)                                                                                                  

Consideration of evidence following the meeting

 

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