Obesity: Food and Diet

Nusrat Ghani Excerpts

Monday 20th January 2025 Commons Chamber

[Several hon. Members rose—]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

Order. As Members can see from the annunciator, the debate on financial education has been postponed, so the current debate can go on until 10 pm.

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[John Glen (Salisbury) (Con)]

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman—

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

Order. When the hon. Member for Chelsea and Fulham (Ben Coleman) takes an intervention, he must be seated.

[John Glen]

The hon. Gentleman is making a thought-provoking observation, but does he acknowledge that in times past, the proportion of income that any individual, from whichever class, spent on food was considerably higher than it is today? If we are to get to the heart of the matter, we have to address the wider challenge of our society’s expectations of how much money we should spend on food. Does he not agree that we are addicted to cheap food?

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[Several hon. Members rose—]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani)]

Order. To ensure that everybody gets in, I am setting a time limit of eight minutes.