Oral Evidence Mar. 12 2024
Inquiry: Screen Time: Impacts on education and wellbeingFound: s online experiences, which will include cyber-bullying, violent content, suicide, self-harm and eating
Mentions:
1: Lord Hope of Craighead (XB - Life peer) Their skills for everyday living in the community need to be developed too—such simple things as eating - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bshp - Bishops) IPP prisoners suffer greater mental distress and disorders than the wider prison population and, in many - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) having to make impossible choices that they never would have dreamed of making in the past—between eating - Speech Link
2: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) disease including stroke and diabetes, dementia, chronic respiratory diseases, and musculoskeletal disorders - Speech Link
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will commission a review into the effectiveness of the requirement under the Calorie Labelling (Out of Home Sector) (England) Regulations 2021 to display calorie information on menus.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department has commissioned independent research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the regulations, and these findings are expected in mid-2024. The NIHR is also funding research to explore the impact of the regulations on people with lived experience of eating disorders, with findings due in October 2025.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of calorie labelling on menus on (a) obesity levels, (b) people with eating disorders and (c) young people.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department has commissioned independent research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the regulations, and these findings are expected in mid-2024. The NIHR is also funding research to explore the impact of the regulations on people with lived experience of eating disorders, with findings due in October 2025.
Mar. 07 2024
Source Page: Child And Parental Wellbeing: Measuring wellbeing outcomes and understanding their relation with povertyFound: In 2021/22, just over two in ten children a nd young people (22%) reported eating both fruit and vegetables
Mar. 06 2024
Source Page: Scotland's Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan: Equality Impact AssessmentFound: disorders are one of the most prevalent MH conditions affecting young people, with anorexia having
Oral Evidence Mar. 05 2024
Inquiry: Men's healthFound: important to recognise that workplace health is not just about getting people physically active, eating
Mentions:
1: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) Disorders, a UK-wide charity working to support those living with eating disorders, and their families - Speech Link
2: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) disorders, and which has provided us with information and has led on eating disorders awareness week - Speech Link
3: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) As we have heard, eating disorders are not uncommon. - Speech Link
4: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) disorders network, as well as the publication of a national specification for eating disorders care - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) experiencing trauma and abuse, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, violence, anger, issues with food and eating - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) disorders that I outlined, which are more prevalent among girls.Continuing education for those in secure - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) It is certainly welcome because the extent to which young people are exhibiting mental health disorders - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) disorders, gardening grannies or Tourette’s. - Speech Link