Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:57 pm on 25 April 2018.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:57, 25 April 2018

I'll try and give three particular points there. On organised sport, whether it's elite sport, and the role it can have as regards role models, not limited in terms of a media profile, but actively going and engaging within their community, and its role linked to community sport—. In work that I did previously with Rebecca Evans when she was a public health Minister—work that I'm looking to repeat and undertake with my ministerial colleague Dafydd Elis-Thomas—I'm looking at the continued contribution of organised sport to broader physical activity, and the role that governing bodies have to play and the role that significant and elite sporting organisations have to play in promoting community engagement are part of what we're doing. That is organised as opposed to incidental. I'm looking forward to more information on that.

In terms of physical activity, and this is, of course, not just about activity within the school, but it is about how people choose to live their lives and how we encourage and enable that and make it easier. That's why active travel is a particularly important policy to normalise walking or cycling to school, and to normalise walking or cycling outside of trips to and from the school. And that is also why we continue to fund activities like the summer holiday enrichment programme—additional activity linked to physical activity, linked to learning within the school, and also, importantly, as I said at the start, linked to proper engagement with the whole of that family, making a real and lasting difference.