Tackling Health Inequalities

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:44 pm on 16 February 2006.

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Photo of David Taylor David Taylor Labour, North West Leicestershire 2:44, 16 February 2006

Is it not a bit much to have a constant stream of chuntering from Conservative Members while the Minister describes these initiatives? When they were in government, they denied the link between poverty and ill health. They suggested that elderly people should respond to fuel poverty simply by putting on an extra cardigan, and that people in northern constituencies such as hers should respond to an increase in the incidence of heart disease and other such illnesses by eating fewer chips. That is a very constructive and helpful public health policy, is it not?