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Debate on the Equality and Social Justice Committee Report, 'Annual Report: European Union Settlement Scheme'
Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. The Equality and Social Justice Committee called this debate to draw the attention of all Members to the evidence our committee has gathered about the EU settlement scheme, both in a report we published in April and…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Unfortunately, rogue landlords are probably not a rarity in Cardiff, which they may well be in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire—I hope so. But I’ve got a tenant who has been living in this property for quite a long time with a young child, and we all know…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: 'The Anti-racist Wales Action Plan'
Thank you very much indeed and thank you very much for this refreshed report, which looks like a really useful document for being able to track and measure the extent of our progress on what is an extraordinarily challenging thing to do. As you say, it…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
What you're doing is marvellous. I just need to work out how we're going to get this whole-system approach. These food partnerships that you have got in each of the seven health board areas—is that right? Or is it every local authority? How are they linked…
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
I want to come back to food partnerships, but Altaf Hussain wanted to come in, so should we just take his question first?
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
So, how effective is the message you're obviously promoting through things like SHEP, which is excellent? How receptive are these health boards to putting money into prevention, rather than the ill health demands?
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
Sorry, could I just ask you, although you're based in Cardiff and the Vale, you're actually in dialogue with all the other six health boards?
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
Okay. Lisa, we heard from the public health experts earlier, and they were saying, 'We can either spend loads more money on treating the consequences of poor health or we can prioritise prevention.' You work for Cardiff and Vale health board, how much success…
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
What you're doing is wonderful, but how we scale that up to meet the needs of all children—. Obviously, the new curriculum helps us. What conversations have you had with Government about the £10 million to £20 million, which I agree is small change compared…
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
I beg your pardon. Sorry?
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Food Policy Alliance Cymru
Obviously, we have a public health emergency and we seem to be just repeating the mistakes of the smoking story, where we don't take action sufficiently quickly. The public health consultants who we saw earlier said, as a priority, we should ensure public…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Okay. But you recognise the link, don't you?
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
The review of maternity weight management services.
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
So, how are we going to do this? This is a disaster. We're about to hit the brick wall, and yet we don't seem to be able to take the decisions that need to be taken. So, what can we expect from this review?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Well, except that if we had—. Busy midwives aren't going to have the time to sit with a new mum and help them successfully breastfeed, as they need a multidisciplinary team, and I'm ever surprised that we don't have breastfeeding support workers working…
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Huh?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Okay. Well, we know that breastfeeding makes a difference. So, in your—
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Yes. It's all down to political leadership on one level, because the Healthy Start scheme, Lynne Neagle was shocked that the Healthy Start vouchers had 40 per cent take-up when she looked at it, and it took a mandatory training course for all health visitors…
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Yes, totally.
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
Okay. So, my final question is: just as, in the health sector, you find people who are reluctant to measure people's waists, et cetera, we also have people in the education sector whose diet is a disaster zone themselves. So, how are we going to get—? We're…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
At the moment, caterers are basically targeting people with all the things they're doing in the commercial sector, which is they give you the sugary options, the bottles of water when it should be free. And really, it's our fault that we're not doing…
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
So, what is stopping us doing this, given that, at the moment, the Cabinet Secretary doesn't intend to introduce new regulations until 2026?
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
You say that the food-based standards in schools are complex and do not meet nutritional requirements. I appreciate you've put a caveat in there, but I absolutely would agree with that. So, why are we spending £600 million on something that doesn't meet…
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Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
This was in the last UK Government, was it? They were probably instructed not to do that.
, Health and Social Care Committee
Prevention of ill health - obesity: evidence session with Public Health Wales
I'm sure caterers would quickly understand it—
