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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 25 May 2022
Sugar Reduction Programme: Bread

"I thank the Minister for that reply. Sugar is in so many products these days and is so damaging. As the Minister knows, we have a crisis with diabetes and with obesity. Does he not agree that we should endeavour to remove sugar wherever we can? There was no sugar …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 24 May 2022
NHS Dental Services

"My Lords, is it not true that many of these deserts are in fact areas that need levelling up? I come from one of those areas originally and, when I was a child, a dentist visited the school to check all the children annually. Why do we not have a …..."
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Written Question
Diabetes: Health Education
Monday 25th April 2022

Asked by: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of patients who joined the Diabetes Prevention programme between 2018 and 2019 failed to complete the course; and what steps they are taking to improve completion rates.

Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)

The information is not collected in the format requested as the NHS Diabetes Prevention programme is of nine months’ duration, where patients may commence support at any point during a calendar year. Completion rates are not collected on a yearly basis. However, data is collected for reference periods to identify cohorts of service users who have completed the programme within a specific time.

Providers of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme are updating session availability to support increased convenience and reduce waiting times. The support available for participants is being amended to encourage continued engagement outside of sessions such as meetings with a health coach and facilitated peer support groups.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 31 Jan 2022
NHS Dentistry

"My Lords, is the Minister aware that, as a child of a working-class family in the 1940s, I was given a periodic free check on my teeth, as were all children alongside me at my school? Is it not a shame now, when we talk about inequalities and levelling up, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Sugar

"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the effect of sugar on health in England; and what steps they will take to reduce its consumption...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Sugar

"My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his reply. He would agree that we need a suite of different approaches—..."
Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe - View Speech

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Sugar

"—to try to make some headway. One of the great successes has been the sugar tax, yet the Government, for reasons which he previously explained, have decided not to extend it over a wider front because of unforeseen contingencies which created problems. Would he examine the prospect of taxing those …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Health and Care Bill

"My Lords, I generally support the direction of the Bill. I welcome it; I think a move towards less competition and more collaboration is the way forward. I support—[Interruption.]..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Jan 2022
Health and Care Bill

"We have a Green intervention.

I support particularly the amendment tabled by the noble Baronesses, Lady Merron and Lady Walmsley, and the noble Lord, Lord Patel, and I pick up the points made so strongly by the noble Lord, Lord Patel, about Public Health England. The major issue where we …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Health and Care Bill

"My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his introduction. I think he would be wise to reflect on what happened in 2012; he was not around, but there was a period of pausing to reflect before the Government decided to return to the work and move on. Given …..."
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