Ms Fiona Gilligan:

We have prepared resources for primary schools, including the Eat, Taste and Grow programme in the North and the Tastebuds programme in the South. Children learn about where food comes from and how their diet affects their health. I agree with Deputy Brendan Smith on the importance of children bringing the message home to their parents and this is something we strive to achieve. We have worked with crèches to introduce educational resources on hand-washing sin order that children learn this message at a very early stage. We created a rhyme about hand-washing which children can learn with their carers and teachers in the crèche. We have also worked with Agri Aware to grow food in schools.

On fizzy drinks and sponsorship, we carry out tracking research on an annual basis to identify consumer concerns about food. This year we asked a number of questions about sponsorship. One in four respondents would ban sponsorship of sport by alcohol and food companies, while one in three linked the food sold or advertised at sports events with obesity.