The initiative that you describe in Newport—I haven’t had the opportunity yet to come and visit, but I’d be really keen to do so because I do know that that is a really good example of partners all coming together in order to address physical activity and well-being and health more widely.

In terms of the well-being bond, this project is very much at its infancy in terms of the concept and we are working with officials, again across different Government departments, to pull together the vision for the well-being bond. We’ll certainly be in a position to say more about that in due course.

Tackling obesity, though, does require commitment from ourselves in Wales and beyond, including the UK Government and the food industry itself. A lot of it does rely on people themselves meeting us halfway and taking that personal responsibility. But, to support this, we do need to create the right environment, where choosing healthier foods and drinks is an easy option and where there aren’t barriers to being physically active. We also need to empower individuals through ensuring that they have adequate skills, knowledge and motivation to make the right choices.

Responding particularly to the Plaid Cymru amendment, we’ll continue to lobby the UK Government to take tougher action on the promotion of unhealthy foods to children particularly. We’re closely monitoring the development of the sugar levy for soft drinks and the action being taken forward to reduce sugar through voluntary food industry targets. These have worked, I think it’s fair to say, with regard to a reduction in salt, but if it’s not successful for sugar then we’ll certainly consider calling for a mandatory approach.

Within our competence, we continue to work through settings-based approaches, including through schools, hospitals and workplaces, and we’re taking the legislative approaches through the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013 and our nutrition standards. We’re also employing social marketing and other campaigns, such as Public Health Wales’s 10 Steps to a Healthy Weight. There are many different community-level approaches being taken forward, and I do believe that these have to maintain some flexibility, enough to recognise the different needs of our different local communities. I’d have insufficient time, really, in the four minutes or so that I have to talk in detail about all of these today, but I have described them in previous statements and debates and I’m more than happy to provide further details in future, but I recognise one thing I haven’t talked about in detail in the Chamber previously is the all-Wales obesity pathway, and that sets out our approach to prevention and treatment, and it was mentioned by a number of speakers today. It does include minimum service requirements that health boards should be working towards, and I just wanted to reassure Members that I’ve personally challenged the health boards through my meetings with the chairs to increase the pace of implementation, particularly at level 3 and level 4 of that pathway and obviously would be keen to update Members in due course as well.

I hope, really, that what I’ve been able to set out has reassured Members that obesity and tackling it is very much a key focus for this Government, and we are putting in place the necessary infrastructure for a much more systematic and effective way of working right across Government departments and portfolios in order to tackle it.