Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:17 pm on 20 September 2016.
Thank you. I’ve met with the director of public health for the Hywel Dda health board area recently and she has confirmed that a recent survey has shown that 28 per cent of children up to the age of four are overweight. That’s 28 per cent—that’s an astonishing figure. Another report recently showed that three quarters of children in Britain spend less time in the open air than people in our prisons. Would you agree with me that it would be worth while putting in place a mechanism to monitor children’s weight as they go through school and also to monitor their physical activity, as was suggested by Tanni Grey-Thompson last week?