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Nato: Palestine (20 Oct 2009)

Malcolm Moss: Unlike the Egyptians, who turned up to vote in the UN Human Rights Council meeting last week on the Goldstone report on the recent conflict in Gaza, is it not deeply disappointing to find that our own representatives stayed away? This seems to have put us in the same voting camp as Angola, Kyrgyzstan and Madagascar, three of the world's worst dictatorships. What message was the Foreign Office...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Sri Lanka (30 Jun 2009) has video

Malcolm Moss: What his most recent assessment is of the human rights situation in Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Sri Lanka (30 Jun 2009) has video

Malcolm Moss: Does the Minister agree that after 25 years of bloody conflict in Sri Lanka, any reasonable Government would reach out to the defeated community, not incarcerate about 300,000 Tamils, many of them children and the elderly, in squalid and inhumane detention camps? What are the Government doing to improve humanitarian conditions in those camps? More important in the longer term, what are the...

Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill: Clause 1 — Amendments of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (10 Jun 2009) has video

Malcolm Moss: Thank you very much, Mrs. Heal. Proposed schedule 7 states: " Recalling further that National Societies undertaking activities on the territory of another State must ensure that the emblems they intend to use within the framework of such activities may be used in the country where the activity takes place and in the country or countries of transit." This comes back to a question that I put to...

Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill: Clause 1 — Amendments of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (10 Jun 2009) has video

Malcolm Moss: rose—

Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill: Clause 1 — Amendments of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (10 Jun 2009) has video

Malcolm Moss: The Minister has not answered my question. If the answer is long in coming, perhaps he would undertake to write to me with an explanation. That would be satisfactory.

Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill: Clause 1 — Amendments of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (10 Jun 2009) has video

Malcolm Moss: I assume, Mrs. Heal, that I will be in order if I speak in the clause stand part debate about the schedule to the Bill and its proposed schedule 7 to the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, as clause 1(8) refers to inserting schedule 7 after schedule 6, and at our rate of progress this afternoon I doubt whether we will ever reach the schedule, let alone Third Reading.

Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill: Clause 1 — Amendments of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (10 Jun 2009) has video

Malcolm Moss: I congratulate the Under-Secretary on his new post. Who decides which symbol or emblem will be used in a particular country? He talks about signatories to the convention, but how many have signed up to the proposal and how many have so far ratified it?

Bill Presented: Stroke Services (3 Jun 2009) has video

Malcolm Moss: I begin by apologising to the Chair, the Minister, colleagues and Members in that I may not be in the Chamber for the full duration of the debate. I have other commitments at the Foreign Affairs Committee later this afternoon. Strokes are one of the most widespread and expensive conditions in the UK, costing the nation around £7 billion every single year, and on current trends the...

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: Will the Minister explain the fundamental difference between the renewal of the mental health strategy and the renewal of the cardiac and vascular health strategy?

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: Mr. Pope, may I say what a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship for the first time? Normally, at this time on a Wednesday afternoon we are both in the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs. A change is as good as a rest, so they say, so I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in this important debate. I am most grateful to colleagues for turning up on the busiest day, in...

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: I think that I agree with the hon. Gentleman. In his statement today, I think the Chancellor indicated that health spending would continue along the lines that had been built in some years previously. However, the achievement in relation to cardiac and vascular disease over the past nine years is more to do with the focus that the Government brought to bear on that wide-ranging issue. That is...

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: My hon. Friend raises an important point. The Prime Minister himself announced not long ago that a special check system was to be put in place for that problem, which causes deaths in the over-60s and over-65s in the male population in particular. I thought that pilot schemes were due to start in the south-west as early as last year, but I am not aware—the Minister will probably...

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: I think there is a draw on that one.

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: April 2009 is actually here and now, is it not?

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: Another fact has been added to the record. Some risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, particularly obesity and a lack of physical activity, are increasing. On current trends, 60 per cent. of males and 50 per cent. of females will be obese by 2050. If unchecked, it is predicted that that will lead to a massive increase in type 2 diabetes, with the current trend indicating that more than 4...

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention, and I agree that there should be a co-ordinated approach, which the Government have shown to date. I hope that as a result of this debate and pressure from both sides of the House—this is an all-party subject of great interest—they will look ahead and continue their good work. I shall discuss the petition later. As I said,...

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: That is an excellent idea. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would like to invite the Minister to address our next meeting.

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: One nil, I think. "Destination 2020" outlines the aims and principles that should underpin a renewed strategic approach to tackle cardiac and vascular disease in the next decade—for example, aims such as those relating to carers, third-sector organisations, and prevention. A person with cardiac or vascular disease should be placed at the centre of service and treatments with their...

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

Malcolm Moss: Zero one, I think. The answer, of course, is yes, but the chairman of my group is sitting next to the hon. Gentleman, and all he needs to do is ask him. Prevention measures should be at the heart of future planning for cardiac and vascular conditions, as they are ultimately the most effective way of reducing illness and preventing premature deaths. Comprehensive cardiac and vascular risk...