'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales'

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 2:14 pm on 6 March 2019.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 2:14, 6 March 2019

One hundred and ninety-two million pounds sounds a lot of money, but the size of the problem is enormous. We have nearly 7,000 people under the age of 25 with type 2 diabetes and 1,500 of them are under the age of 19. That is a very, very serious statistic. So, it seems to me that we are going to need to roll out across Wales, proper weaning advice for all new parents, as well as cookery classes in all our schools to ensure that people aren't eating things that are literally killing them. So, I appreciate that the consultation hasn't yet closed, but presumably—is there any possibility that, were the health Minister to identify additional needs over and above that £192 million, that that might be a conversation you'd be prepared to contemplate?