"My Lords, does the Minister agree that any deal that the Government might do with the supermarkets to cut prices in exchange for delaying regulations on healthy food would be short-sighted, against public health and damaging to the NHS?..." Baroness Walmsley - View Speech
"My Lords, recently my work has focused on two aspects of prevention of ill health and health inequalities. In 2024, I chaired a one-year special inquiry into food, diet and obesity, and this year I am chairing one into childhood vaccination rates in England. Apart from clean water, these are …..." Baroness Walmsley - View Speech
"My Lords, while the intention of the policy is welcome, does the Minister recognise that it may create a perverse incentive for businesses to divert surplus food away from community organisations and enterprises such as Community Shop, which provide both affordable food and wider support for vulnerable groups? Will he …..." Baroness Walmsley - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the VAT relief on business donations on goods to charities on food redistribution networks, including social supermarkets...." Baroness Walmsley - View Speech
"My Lords, in relation to the question from my noble friend Lady Kramer, does the Minister agree that applying the new nutrient profiling model to surplus food diverted to various organisations could make it easy to carve out less healthy food from the VAT relief?..." Baroness Walmsley - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank the Minister and I, too, welcome the women’s health strategy, as it includes many important objectives. In communities up and down the country, we have seen the devastating toll of sustained failures to invest in and deliver better women’s health. Women’s lives, families and economic productivity …..." Baroness Walmsley - View Speech
"My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for giving us the opportunity to talk about cancer today, because I am a very lucky woman: like the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, I am a cancer survivor. My cancer was picked up by routine screening, so I …..." Baroness Walmsley - View Speech
"I thank the Minister for her Answer. The graduate guarantee is very welcome but, already, 31% of newly qualified midwives do not have a job or are on fixed-term contracts. First, how will the Government ensure that workforce planning is aligned to the number of posts available so that the …..." Baroness Walmsley - View Speech
"To ask His Majesty’s Government what progress they have made towards achieving the graduate guarantee for newly qualified midwives...." Baroness Walmsley - View Speech