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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 22 Jul 2021
Calorie Labelling (Out of Home Sector) (England) Regulations 2021

"My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for in effect taking up much of my speech, so I will not repeat it, because I would be speaking broadly in favour of what the Government are endeavouring to do, but arguing, as I have done in my amendment, that they …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 22 Jul 2021
NHS Update

"My Lords, I welcome the Minister’s offer to meet the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, to discuss her devastating report. We should be ashamed to see the way some of our people with learning disabilities and our autistic young people have been treated. I would like to know whether the Government’s …..."
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Written Question
Rehabilitation
Tuesday 20th July 2021

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

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bethell on 19 February (HL13296), whether work on producing a cross-addiction strategy has now resumed; and if so, when such a strategy will be published.

Answered by Lord Bethell

Work on developing the addiction strategy will commence later this year and we expect this to be published in 2022. This will build on current Departmental work related to drugs, alcohol and gambling addiction.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 08 Jul 2021
Women’s Health Outcomes

"My Lords, I join others in expressing my gratitude to the noble Baroness. She is a great campaigner and is prepared to reach out across all Benches. That is much required with the problems we face.

I think I am probably the first to mention football, but I mention Denmark …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 24 Jun 2021
Social Care and the Role of Carers

"My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Jolly, for giving us this debate, and for the contributions made by other noble Lords. In particular, I picked up what the noble Baroness said about care homes and the number of unfilled beds. Having watched television and seen people …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 29 Apr 2021
Office for Health Promotion

"Does the Minister agree that, whichever office is in charge of it, any successful obesity strategy must engage with the so-called hard-to-reach groups in society? As many play the National Lottery, scratch cards and so on, will the Government consider how this link might be used to incentivise and reward …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 22 Apr 2021
Body Mass Index

"My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for tabling the Question. We may be debating some of these broadly related issues in even greater depth in the future, because the facts of life are that we have one of the unhealthiest populations in the whole of Europe. We …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 22 Apr 2021
Alcohol Harm Commission: Report 2020

"My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lady Finlay for her powerful introduction. I declare an interest as one of the members of her commission, which she so admirably steered to producing such a wonderful report.

In the limited time that we have, I want to focus …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 25 Mar 2021
Covid-19: One Year Report

"My Lords, it has been a while since I was last here, but I am very pleased to come in today to support my noble friend Lady Thornton. I am sorry that the Minister is not here, because I wish to thank him for the hard work he has consistently …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 23 Feb 2021
Future of Health and Care

"My Lords, the White Paper refers to the NHS problems with obesity. I make no apology for introducing this topic, because obesity is one of the major underlying causes of Covid deaths, but it is rarely raised in the direct communication between the Prime Minister and Professor Whitty and the …..."
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