Attendance
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Category
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Names
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Members of the Senedd:
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Jenny Rathbone MS (Chair)
Jane Dodds MS
Altaf Hussain MS
Julie Morgan MS
Sioned Williams MS
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Witnesses:
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Andrew Charles, Welsh Government
Mike Connolly, UK Government
Claire Germain, Welsh Government
Lorna Hall, Deputy Director for Equality and
Human Rights, Welsh Government
Jane Hutt MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Amelia John, Welsh Government
Ian Jones, Welsh Government
Keith Smyton, Welsh Government
Riaz Hassan, Welsh Government
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Committee Staff:
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Mared Llwyd (Second Clerk)
Angharad Roche (Deputy Clerk)
Gareth Thomas (Research)
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<AI1>
1
Introductions, apologies, substitutions
and declarations of interest
The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting.
Apologies were received from Mick Antoniw,
MS.
No substitutions nor declarations of interest
were made.
</AI1>
<AI2>
2
Access to healthy, nutritious and
affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for
Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Members heard evidence from:
Jane Hutt, MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Claire Germain, Deputy Director, Tackling
Poverty & Supporting Families, Welsh Government
Keith Smyton, Deputy Director, Food, Welsh
Government
</AI2>
<AI3>
3
General Ministerial scrutiny: session
with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief
Whip
Members heard evidence from:
Jane Hutt, MS, Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
Amelia John, Director, Communities &
Social Justice, Welsh Government
Andrew Charles, Deputy Director, Cohesive
Communities, Welsh Government
Ian Jones, Deputy Director, Equality, Poverty
& Children's Evidence and Support, Welsh Government
Lorna Hall, Deputy Director, Equality &
Human Rights, Welsh Government
Claire Germain, Deputy Director, Tackling
Poverty & Supporting Families, Welsh Government
Mike Connolly, Deputy Director, Community
Safety Division, Welsh Government
Riaz Hassan, Head of the Anti-Racist Wales
Action Plan, Welsh Government
</AI3>
<AI4>
4
Papers to note
Members noted the papers.
</AI4>
<AI5>
4.1
Correspondence to the Chair from Cadoxton
Primary School regarding "Ready, Steady, Cook – Family
Healthy Cooking Programme"
</AI5>
<AI6>
4.2
Correspondence to the Chair from NHS
Wales Dieticians regarding the Access to healthy, nutritious and
affordable food inquiry
</AI6>
<AI7>
4.3
Correspondence to the Chair from Colegau
Cymru regarding Welsh Colleges new approach to recognising prior
learning
</AI7>
<AI8>
4.4
Correspondence to the Chair from
Fishguard Bay Sustainable Food regarding the access to healthy,
nutritious and affordable food inquiry
</AI8>
<AI9>
4.5
Correspondence to the Chair from Michelle
Crotty of the Judicial Office regarding experiences of the Criminal
Justice System
</AI9>
<AI10>
4.6
Correspondence to the Chair from the
Magistrates Association regarding the increase in women in Wales
remanded in custody by magistrates’ courts
</AI10>
<AI11>
4.7
Correspondence to the Chair from the
Future Generations Commissioner regarding the Welsh
Government’s response to the recommendations of the Future
Generations Report 2025
</AI11>
<AI12>
5
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (vi) to
resolve to exclude the public for the remainder of today's
meeting
Members agreed the motion.
</AI12>
<AI13>
6
Access to healthy, nutritious and
affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for
Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip - consideration of the
evidence
Members considered the evidence and it was
agreed that a short report would be published outlining the
Committees findings in this inquiry.
</AI13>
<AI14>
7
General Ministerial scrutiny session with
the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip -
consideration of the evidence
Members considered the evidence and it was
agreed that the session would be referenced in the
Committee’s impending legacy report which will note the work
completed by the Committee in the Sixth Senedd.
</AI14>
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