Smoking, vaping, diet and exercise

Jack SargeantLabour

13 November 2024, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee

Impact of funding reductions for culture and sport: Evidence session with the Minister for Culture, Skills and Social Partnership (10)

…around transport and, perhaps, school transport as well in making sure that schoolchildren can access swimming lessons—. I think I'll refrain from entering into those discussions, but recognise the importance of swimming. In terms of the exploration of how we tackle that, well, look, again, I'm…

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Mike HedgesLabour

11 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Papers to note

The Minister for Mental Health and Well-being states that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill has been introduced into the UK Parliament. The Minister notes that an earlier version of the Bill was introduced by the last UK Government on 20 March, but its progress was halted when the UK Parliament was…

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Mike HedgesLabour

11 November 2024, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

Papers to note

…note that? Yes. Item 5.2, a written statement by the Minister for Mental Health and Well-being on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. The Minister for Mental Health and Well-being states that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill has been introduced into the UK Parliament. The Minister notes that an earlier version of…

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Lynne NeagleLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Improving educational standards in Wales

Thank you very much, John. I know how passionate you are about sport and physical activity, and, obviously, it's really important—it's important for children's health, but also does help them to learn in school, and is absolutely vital. You'll be aware that our new curriculum has a statutory area of…

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John GriffithsLabour

5 November 2024, Plenary

Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Improving educational standards in Wales

…mile, which I think is very successful in those terms as well, and some schools are very keen to make physical activity absolutely central to the school experience. Community-focused schools, I think, offer some really interesting possibilities, and I know that you are committed to making progress…

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Russell GeorgeConservative

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru

Thank you. Diolch yn fawr iawn. Thank you very much for your time with us this morning. We appreciate that you're busy and we really appreciate you attending committee this morning. So, thank you.

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Lisa Williams

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru

…Wales. So, it does show that there are high levels of overweight and people living with overweight and obesity amongst those minority ethnic communities. So, there are programmes, for example, the child and family pilot programme, which is looking at how we specifically support families from…

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Simon Wright

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru

Yes, a big question about fish. We have all this coastline and I think we've got, like, 100 day boats left now. So, we really don't have much of a fishing industry and yet we have that huge potential off our coast, and there are some interesting things going on at the moment in terms of shellfish…

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Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru

Gaf i jest ofyn un cwestiwn arall? Dwi'n mynd off ar tangent sydd o ddiddordeb personol i fi. Roeddech chi, Lisa, yn sôn yn gynharach yn eich ateb blaenorol am bysgod, a'r diffyg pysgod yn ein deiet. Mae hwnna fy mhoeni i, achos roedd Cymru a'r Deyrnas Gyfunol yn arfer bwyta lot o bysgod o fathau…

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Katie Palmer

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru

We don't collect that data in Wales, that's what I was saying. So, that's something that I think we should be considering: are we monitoring the health of our young people as they are growing up?

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Katie Palmer

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru

Yes, just very quickly, I absolutely second what Lisa said about this not being just about an obesity issue. We have got a malnutrition issue coming through the system at the moment. And what we don't do—. We've got the childhood measurement programme, which measures four and five-year-olds, and…

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Lisa Williams

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru

It's a really good question. We have the national diet and nutrition survey, and we would advocate for continuing that Wales boost within the national diet and nutrition survey, because that will give us that information holistically about the state of the nation's diet. So, we know from that, for…

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Mabon ap GwynforPlaid

24 October 2024, Health and Social Care Committee

Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru

Thank you very much. I'll be asking in Welsh. Just very briefly, I'm interested in the data we have surrounding this in terms of dietary health. What data do we have? Is it sufficient? Do we collect the right kind of data, and what else could we do in order to improve the data we have to create…

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