(12 years, 5 months ago)
Lords ChamberMy Lords, we have not heard from a Liberal Democrat on this Question. We will hear from the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, and then from the Cross Benches.
My Lords, with almost 18% of children between two and 15 growing clinically obese in the past decade, can the Minister tell the House what discussions have taken place or are planned to take place with colleagues in the Department of Health to discuss this new evidence from the Government’s own advisers on school food and children’s meals about the potential risks to the life expectancy of children and the increasing costs to the NHS, particularly in the light of the Secretary of State’s own view that the majority of secondary schools will become academies by the end of this Parliament?
(12 years, 10 months ago)
Lords ChamberMy Lords, I feel we should hear from my noble friend Lady Parminter.
(12 years, 11 months ago)
Lords ChamberMy Lords, we have time. Perhaps we may hear from the noble Baroness, Lady Mallalieu.
(14 years ago)
Lords ChamberMy Lords, let us hear next from the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter.
My Lords, should not the most important leadership on climate change be from the United States and China? Will my noble friend inform the House what the Government are doing to persuade those two giants of carbon emissions to exercise that leadership at Cancún later this year?