Local Government and Public Health Bodies

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:38 pm on 13 November 2019.

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Photo of David Lloyd David Lloyd Plaid Cymru 2:38, 13 November 2019

Yes, thank you, Minister. I hear what you say about regional partnership boards, but, just to develop the argument a bit, with the range of what makes people ill in the first place—the so-called determinants of ill health, as you'll be aware—they already fall within the ambit of local government: bad housing and environmental health, education particularly and public transport. They're already under the control of local authorities. So, it would make sense, really, to try and strengthen the public health aspects of local authorities, because they already do a lot of that, to actually move across a fair amount directly to local authorities, rather than to regional partnership boards. I don't know how you think about that.