Childhood Obesity

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 3:21 pm on 25 April 2018.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 3:21, 25 April 2018

I recognise this is a major, significant public health challenge. That's why we've already taken some of the steps we've already taken, but it is about looking at what we do next, and I'd be very interested in the committee's report and its recommendations because we have not yet signed off a consultation on our strategy. Then I will finalise what the strategy should be and how we'll use our resources to make it real, because part of the challenge often is moving from strategy and well-meaning objectives that broadly everyone signs up to into how we persuade and get around certain members of the public to make different choices. That's not just making unhealthy choices more difficult or expensive; it is actually how we make healthier choices easier to undertake as well. So, I will definitely be interested in the evidence from the committee. I'll be interested in what other partners have to say and, yes, we'll engage in a range of—[Inaudible.]—before signing off not just the strategy but the recommendations, the action we'll take and how we'll fund that because, as I say, I do recognise that this is a real and significant public health challenge that has the potential to overtop significant parts of health and social care.