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Written Question
Obesity: Death
Wednesday 14th January 2026

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people died from conditions related to obesity in England in each year since 2021.

Answered by Josh Simons - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Questions of 6th January is attached.


Written Question
Alcoholism: Death
Wednesday 14th January 2026

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people died from alcoholism in England in each year since 2021.

Answered by Josh Simons - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Questions of 6th January is attached.


Written Question
Cardiovascular Diseases: Death
Wednesday 14th January 2026

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths there were from cardiovascular causes in (a) East Midlands, (b) East of England, (c) Greater London, (d) North East, (e) North West, (f) South East, (g) South West, (h) West Midlands, (i) Yorkshire and the Humber and (j) England in each year since 2021 for which figures are available.

Answered by Josh Simons - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Questions of 6th January is attached.


Written Question
Death
Tuesday 13th January 2026

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate his Department has made of the number of premature deaths in (i) England and (ii) the UK attributable to (a) smoking, (b) air pollution, (c) alcoholism and (d) obesity in the last 12 months.

Answered by Josh Simons - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 5th of January is attached.


Written Question
Death
Tuesday 2nd December 2025

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many deaths in (a) England, (b) Northern Ireland, (c) Scotland and (d) Wales were attributable to (i) alcoholism, (ii) obesity, (iii) air pollution and (iv) smoking in the latest year for which data is available.

Answered by Josh Simons - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 18th November is attached.


Written Question
Farmers: Suicide
Friday 12th January 2024

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of farmers that have died by suicide in each of the last ten years.

Answered by John Glen

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon Members Parliamentary Question of 19th December is attached.


Written Question
List of Ministerial Responsibilities
Tuesday 20th December 2022

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the List of Ministerial Responsibilities will be next updated.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The List of Ministerial Responsibilities has been published on 19 December and placed in the Libraries of both Houses. It can also be found on GOV.UK at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-ministers-and-responsibilities.


Written Question
List of Ministerial Responsibilities
Thursday 13th October 2022

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish an updated List of Ministerial Responsibilities.

Answered by Edward Argar

A revised List of Ministerial Responsibilities will be published in due course. In the meantime, departments are updating their ministers' pages on GOV.UK which also include portfolio information.


Written Question
Brexit: Negotiations
Thursday 4th June 2020

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants are engaged in negotiations with the EU on a post-transition period trade deal.

Answered by Penny Mordaunt

Negotiations with the EU are led by Task Force Europe. This is a small central unit within the Prime Minister’s Office led by the Chief Negotiator David Frost and currently has 42 staff. These negotiations are a cross-departmental effort and accordingly involve a larger number of staff overall. For example, more than a hundred UK staff have been involved in recent negotiating rounds, supported by FCO officials and others.


Written Question
Civil Servants: Coronavirus
Tuesday 2nd June 2020

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants have been re-deployed to support the Government's response to the covid-19 outbreak.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The Government's number one priority is the response to the covid-19 outbreak. As such many civil servants within departments are working on different aspects of the overall response to the pandemic, and have been redeployed to do so. Comprehensive details of these internal redeloyments are not held centrally. The Government Resourcing Hub is also moving civil servants to COVID-19 roles across different departments.