National Accident Prevention Strategy

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Excerpts

Tuesday 9th October 2018 Lords Chamber

[The Earl of Courtown]

I sympathise with the noble Lord: four years ago I fell off a ladder while cutting my hedge and ended up in resus with rather a nasty headache. He is quite right—if you look at the pavements around towns and villages there are many trip hazards. Work should be done to improve them.

[Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab)]

My Lords, I take the noble Earl back to his comment that the Government were now considering how to allocate the additional funds for the NHS in light of the announcement this summer. Will he confirm that public health funding through local government has been expressly excluded from that increase in funding, along with education programmes? Can he tell me why?

[The Earl of Courtown]

The noble Lord knows a great deal more about this subject than I do: I will have to write to him with that information.