Meetings
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food
This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.
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Meeting: 09/02/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3.7)
3.7 Correspondence to the Chair from Liz Gordon, Sustainable Food Partnership Co-ordinator at Conwy Borough council regarding the inquiry into access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 09/02/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3.1)
3.1 Correspondence to the Chair from FareShare Cymru providing additional information following an oral evidence session on 19 January 2026 regarding the inquiry into access to healthy and affordable food
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 02/02/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: consideration of evidence
Minutes:
Members considered the evidence that they heard during today’s stakeholder session and agreed that a summary of the session will be published on the inquiry into access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food issue page in due course.
Meeting: 02/02/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 1)
1 Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: stakeholder focus group session
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 11 , View reasons restricted (1/1)
- Summary of engagenment findings, item 1
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View as HTML (1/2) 59 KB
Minutes:
Members hosted a private round-table event for stakeholders involved in the
Committee’s inquiry on access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food.
Meeting: 26/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)
- Webcast for 26/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
- Transcript for 26/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
3 Correspondence from the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs and the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip to the Chair regarding food poverty
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 26/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5)
- Webcast for 26/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
- Transcript for 26/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: consideration of preparations for focus group sessions
Minutes:
Members received and update and discussed the logistics of the upcoming focus group session.
Meeting: 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 6)
- Webcast for 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
- Transcript for 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: consideration of the evidence
Meeting: 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)
- Webcast for 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
- Transcript for 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session two
Janet Hayward, Big Bocs Bwyd
Sarah Germain, Farshare Cymru
Katie Till, Trussell Trust
Robbie Davison, Can Cook - Well Fed
Simon Wright, Cegin y Bobl & Wright’s Food Emporium
Minutes:
Members heard evidence from:
Janet Hayward, Big Bocs Bwyd
Sarah Germain, Farshare Cymru
Katie Till, Trussell Trust
Robbie Davison, Can Cook - Well Fed
Simon Wright, Cegin y Bobl & Wright’s Food Emporium
Meeting: 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)
- Webcast for 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
- Transcript for 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee
2 Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session one
Pearl Costello, Food Sense Wales
Hannah Gibbs, Sustain
Chloe Masefield, Bwyd Powys (hosted by Cultivate)
Chris Nottingham, Blaenau Gwent Food Partnership/Tai Calon Housing Association
Supporting documents:
- Restricted enclosure 26 , View reasons restricted (2/1)
- Evidence paper: Food Sense Wales, item 2
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- Consultation response: Future Generations Commissioner, item 2
PDF 146 KB
- Consultation response: Size of Wales, item 2
PDF 142 KB
Minutes:
Members heard evidence from:
Pearl Costello, Food Sense Wales
Hannah Gibbs, Sustain
Chloe Masefield, Bwyd Powys (hosted by Cultivate)
Chris Nottingham, Blaenau Gwent Food Partnership/Tai Calon
Housing Association