5. Debate on the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee Report: Physical Activity of Children and Young People

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:43 pm on 12 June 2019.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 4:43, 12 June 2019

It's most kind of you to take an intervention. I think the point I just want to make is that we refer a lot to sport, and I'm aware of the Sport Wales programmes, but of course, for young women—12, 13, or 14 years old, hormones racing around their bodies, very body conscious, very aware of trying to figure out what they're all about and everything—actually, the notion of somebody coming in and doing the sport side of it is, and can be, a turn-off. And I would love to see some of these organisations be far more creative in how they get these young women to undertake physical activity.