Lynne Neagle: Thank you for that intervention. I am conscious of time, Rhun, but I think the key bone of contention, really, is the need for a new framework, because we know exactly where we need to get to in eating disorder services. There is clear NICE guidance that we have to ensure is met. We're also putting in place new clinical governance arrangements, and there will be a work plan below that. So, I...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Llywydd. I'd like to thank all Members today for their contributions and for bringing forward this debate on such an important topic. There is much in this motion I agree with. I am acutely aware that improvements need to be made to eating disorder services and I am sincerely committed to driving this forward. I also welcome the spotlight that Eating Disorders Awareness Week gives...
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Lynne Neagle: Thank you very much, Ken. I'm very happy to give you that assurance that I am really committed to the early years in the round. You'll have heard me as a backbencher raise many times the importance of the first 1,000 days. So, it is very much a priority for me. As you've heard me explain to Jenny Rathbone, the previous speaker, it is a key priority area as part of the delivery plan that we...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you very much, Jenny, for your welcome, and thank you too for your continued commitment in this area of work. It is really very much appreciated, and I recognise that we've got a lot of work to do in terms of encouraging children and young people to eat more healthily. Yesterday I was at Ysgol-y-Graig Primary School in Cefn Coed in Merthyr for the start of Veg Power's 'Eat Them To...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you very much, Rhun, and thank you for your welcome for the delivery plan that I've announced today. As you rightly highlight, the genesis of the 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' strategy came from the Public Health (Wales) Bill, and it's been good to do the work that I've done on committees around tackling inactivity, et cetera—it has been really useful. You referred to the funding...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you to James Evans for that range of points, and also for your acknowledgement of the scale of the problem that we face and for your acknowledgement that that problem has become much worse due to the pandemic. And I entirely agree with you that prevention is better than cure, and this is a delivery plan, as part of our 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' strategy, that is very much rooted...
Lynne Neagle: The plan will build approaches across a range of our environments, from the way we eat and buy food out of the home to our educational and recreational settings in order to identify how we can make the healthy choice the easy choice. However, we have to be clear: we are trying to roll back established ways of living our lives that have built up over time and are having a negative impact on...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Llywydd. I'm today launching the second of five delivery plans as part of our 10-year 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' strategy. Our delivery plan for 2022-24 will utilise a combination of funding, policy and legislation to develop approaches that place a strong focus on prevention and making the healthy choice the easy choice. The plan will support recovery from the pandemic and...
Lynne Neagle: We are fulfilling our commitment in the programme for government to prioritise investment in mental health support. As part of the draft budget planning process for 2022-23, an additional £50 million, £75 million and £90 million ring-fenced funding for mental health has been agreed for 2022‑23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 respectively.
Lynne Neagle: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'd like to begin by thanking Darren Millar for bringing forward this important topic for debate today. Obesity is a complex condition and it cannot be solved by the Government or by the NHS working in isolation. The evidence suggests that a partnership and whole-system approach is the only way to achieve change. The Welsh Government's 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales'...
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Lynne Neagle: Thank you very much, Russell, and can I endorse your kind words about Kaleidoscope as well? We're very lucky in Wales to have some brilliant third sector organisations in this area. In relation to your comments about blood-borne viruses, I'm very happy to have a look at the target. I would need to do that, obviously, in partnership with the Minister for Health and Social Services, but I'm...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you very much, John, for those points. Just to reassure you, it's not just the one letter that we've written to the UK Government expressing concerns about their approach to partnership with us on these very important issues. Obviously, those discussions are going on on a regular basis with our officials. I attended, on behalf of the Welsh Government, the UK drugs summit, where I also...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you very much, Peredur, and I very much look forward to coming to the cross-party group, to one of your future meetings, and I recognise this is an area that you feel passionately about, and I'm very much looking forward to continuing to work with you. I wholeheartedly agree again with your comments about the need not to criminalise people. Unfortunately, the engagement that we've had...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you very much, James, for those kind words, the welcome for the statement and the recognition of the positive work, and also for your questions. It's really encouraging to hear you say that you too are very keen to take a person-centred, health-related approach to issues with substance misuse. That is very much the ethos that drives our work in Wales. We don't believe that criminalising...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Deputy Llywydd. It's really pleasing to update Members on the work being undertaken under our substance misuse delivery plan 2019-22, as we continue to tackle the harms associated with substance misuse. The overall aim of the delivery plan is to ensure that people in Wales are aware of the dangers and the impact of substance misuse and know where they can seek information, help and...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you for that question. I'm really sorry to hear about the young person that you referred to. I'm really pleased to see any organisation that is working to support people either affected by suicide or to prevent suicide. I've not come across this organisation myself, but I'm very happy to have a look at the work that they do. We recently closed a bidding round for a significant amount of...
Lynne Neagle: Thank you. Mental health support in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire is provided by the NHS and a range of partners. Hywel Dda University Health Board's transforming mental health services programme is providing further benefits.
Lynne Neagle: Thank you, Mark. As you highlighted, the 2018 review did set out a radical agenda for change, but we were very clear that that would have to be undertaken in a phased way. The Welsh Government funds Beat; we give Beat £100,000. So, I would just like to take this opportunity to thank Beat for the really important support that they're providing as a third sector organisation. Their report,...
