Extract from Wales Assembly statement on Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales—Our national ambitions to prevent and reduce obesity in Wales - Jan 29

Vaughan Gething AM:...On the broader point about how we're working across Government, on the healthy and active theme, we initially actually had two different strategies: one on activity and one on healthy weight. We've deliberately brought them together because there are clear links and we want to make them deliberate. In fact, last week, I and the Deputy Minister were attending the cross-Government group looking at how we take forward greater activity, to look at the different levers of Government from active travel to a healthier environment to people in Lesley Griffiths's team, and to look at how we deal with this across Government and not just say, 'This is about health and education'. And that's also part of the reason why we had the healthy and active fund working with not just Sport Wales but also, for example, with Natural Resources Wales as well to make use of the assets we already have, and, again, to normalise the use of those assets that exist within easy reach of every community to make sure people know that they're there and actually take up the opportunity to use them...

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