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.

Note: Meeting Agenda can change at short notice. Particularly where future meeting dates are indicated more than a week in advance. Please check before planning to attend a Committee Meeting that the item you are interested in has not been moved.

 

 

Meeting: 23/03/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5.)

5. Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: consideration of draft report

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Meeting: 23/03/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2.3)

2.3 Correspondence to the Chair from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip regarding the monitoring the Welsh Government undertakes for funding for tackling food poverty

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Meeting: 16/03/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5.)

5. Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: consideration of draft report

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Meeting: 02/03/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Correspondence to the Chair from Cadoxton Primary School regarding "Ready, Steady, Cook – Family Healthy Cooking Programme"

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Meeting: 02/03/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 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

Minutes:

Members considered the evidence and it was agreed that a short report would be published outlining the Committees findings in this inquiry.

Meeting: 02/03/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 2)

2 Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip

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

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Minutes:

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

Meeting: 02/03/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Correspondence to the Chair from NHS Wales Dieticians regarding the Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food inquiry

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Meeting: 02/03/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 4)

4 Correspondence to the Chair from Fishguard Bay Sustainable Food regarding the access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food inquiry

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Meeting: 09/02/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

3 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

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Meeting: 09/02/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 3)

3 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

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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

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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)

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

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Meeting: 26/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 5)

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 3)

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)

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

 

 

 

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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

 

 

 

 

Meeting: 19/01/2026 - Equality and Social Justice Committee (Item 6)

Access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food: consideration of the evidence

 

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