Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:13 pm on 12 June 2018.
Thank you for those two questions. It was a very good time we spent in Cynon Valley and, in fact, one of the people we saw was herself an unpaid carer, effectively. So, we recognise that's a huge value to what we can do and, actually, our health and care system and the way it operates is really important in allowing those unpaid carers to do what they want to, and what they need, but at the same time the challenge is around respite. We need to make some financial choices that we've made in the past about supporting them with respite, but also about recognising that those people have their own care needs as well. And that's about taking forward the consistent implementation of not just the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, but making sure that that is embedded within the strategy, and I think you can take comfort that it really is. I also am very pleased to have an opportunity to welcome Carers Week and the contribution that they make today.
On cross-Government work, there is a range of work that we're already doing on a range of the areas in 'Prosperity for All'—the four big themes that require work across the Government to improve health and care outcomes. In the economic field, for example, we know that, actually, people who are not in work or in poorly paid work—their health outcomes are poorer. We recognise that within the significant amount of money that we spend within the health and care system, there is real economic opportunity as well. So, it isn't just simply about saying, obviously, 'health in all policies'; it's still about all policies in health as well. And a good example of your point about the outdoors is the work that I'm doing already with our ministerial colleague, Dafydd Elis-Thomas, to look at the work that Public Health Wales and Sport Wales do, and, indeed, in Lesley Griffiths's portfolio, with Natural Resources Wales. So, there's lots more for us to do, and I look forward to coming back to this place in the future to talk about what we have done.