Smoking, vaping, diet and exercise

Eluned MorganLabour

13 January 2022, Health and Social Care Committee

Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: evidence session with the Minister for Health and Social Services, the Deputy Minister for Social Services and the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being

…and what I'm hoping to do is to really start looking at the specific measures in certain areas, so tobacco use, or a healthier weight, for example, and that the health boards will have to account for those—so, a lot better monitoring and accountability mechanism. I don't know if Lynne wants to add…

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Julie MorganLabour

13 January 2022, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1

…able to do, and we're also funding StreetGames to reduce the barriers to participation in sport and physical activity for children who are from low socio-economic areas, and also piloting ideas to establish a national music service to ensure cost isn't a barrier. So, that's what's coming out of this…

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Lynne NeagleLabour

13 January 2022, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1

…on health and well-being, and that should see an emphasis across the curriculum that will improve physical activity levels as well. But just also to say as well, in recognition of the fact that we need to take urgent action now, we have set up within Welsh Government a daily active group that is…

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Carolyn ThomasLabour

13 January 2022, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1

…that children—. Because that's very often the gateway, isn't it, where children start trying sport and physical activity—it's through school? So, I've just got a little bit of concern about them not having that, possibly. Thank you.

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Lynne NeagleLabour

13 January 2022, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1

Yes, I'm responsible for 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales'. Thank you, Ken. The delivery plan is going to be launched on 1 March. So, we will have a revised delivery plan in place, and that will set out seven national priority areas, with the focus on reducing health inequalities. To give you some…

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Ken SkatesLabour

13 January 2022, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1

…of I think it's £6.63 million, which will be allocated in the next financial year to support the 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' strategy. Of course, the delivery plan is not yet published. I think it's due to be published early this year. But could you outline how the figures in the budget relate…

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Eluned MorganLabour

13 January 2022, Children, Young People, and Education Committee

Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-2023 - evidence session 1

…a prevention approach to health; making sure that we focus on population health, on things like eating, obesity and smoking and things like that; clearly, we've got a COVID response that we need to look at; there's the NHS recovery; and you've already touched upon the need to really look at mental…

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Eluned MorganLabour

12 January 2022, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Health inequalities

…has been implemented, to give us the tools to do those things that we know need to be done. With the tobacco control strategy, our LGBTQ+ action plan and our race equality action plan, which are all in the pipeline, the steps to address health inequalities are being incorporated across our ambitious…

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Eluned MorganLabour

12 January 2022, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Health inequalities

…our population, with all the more vulnerable people with pre-existing health conditions, such as obesity, being at far greater risk of severe disease. In this sense, COVID-19 has highlighted even further the crucial importance of public health prevention work in tackling health inequalities. So, we…

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Mike HedgesLabour

12 January 2022, Plenary

Plaid Cymru Debate: Health inequalities

…a direct link between good health and interaction with the natural environment, with stress lowered, obesity rates lessened and concentration improved. Health inequality is just another manifestation of poverty: poor diet, poor-quality housing, inadequately heated housing, lack of interaction with…

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Paula Steer

10 January 2022, Petitions Committee

Evidence session (Panel 2) P-06-1212 Mark Allen's Law - we want throwline stations around all open water sites in Wales

…authorities, the RNLI, other water companies, other landowners—putting out messages around water safety. We've all got the same problem, and actually, we all want the same thing, so we've got to collaborate more. Getting the Welsh Government involved in that, and hopefully the English Government…

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Nikki Kemmery

10 January 2022, Petitions Committee

Evidence session (Panel 2) P-06-1212 Mark Allen's Law - we want throwline stations around all open water sites in Wales

…a year, but I know that the previous two years, we managed to see about 18,500 pupils with lessons on water safety and water education. We've had to go virtually online last year, and I know we did about 543 virtual sessions with classes, so obviously, a lot of pupils would have taken part in those.…

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Luke FletcherPlaid

10 January 2022, Petitions Committee

Evidence session (Panel 2) P-06-1212 Mark Allen's Law - we want throwline stations around all open water sites in Wales

…been answered partly, but are there any further practical measures that are needed in Wales to increase water safety? We'll start with Nikki.

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