Public health
Preventing ill health: smoking, vaping and obesity, alcohol and drugs, vaccination and infectious disease, and the gap in health between richer and poorer areas.
In the Programme for Government this sits under the well-being objective Building a health and care service fit for the future, and cutting waiting lists.
Showing the theme Smoking, vaping, diet and exercise. The Programme commitments are the brief's as a whole.
- Statements and debates
- 11
- Contributions
- 1,207
- Written questions
- 61
1,207 contributions in the Sixth Senedd touched on this. The busiest month was Jan 2025, with 203.
- Labour62%
- Conservative24%
- Plaid13%
- Independent0%
- Lib Dem0%
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The debate so far
In the Seventh Senedd the main prevention debate has been the new Deputy Minister for Public and Preventative Health's plan for a cross-government approach and a public health strategy. Members have also debated the gap in healthy life expectancy between richer and poorer areas, youth vaping, vaccine uptake and substance misuse. Opposition Members have mostly asked how the approach will change outcomes in practice and what it will cost.
The main arguments
- Nerys Evans (Plaid Cymru), Deputy Minister, said prevention is a cross-government priority. She described a new public health strategy, ministerial and official governance groups, and work on a designated preventative expenditure limit within the Welsh budget.
