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Orders of the Day: Health and Education (13 Nov 2007)

Andrew Lansley: ...authorities in the NHS, which are tackling those issues through local area agreements. The Secretary of State came to the Dispatch Box only a couple of weeks ago and described obesity as akin to climate change. He probably does not seriously believe that—try telling it to people in sub-Saharan African or Bangladesh. It is, however, an important issue. His response seemed to be that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Foresight Review of Obesity (17 Oct 2007) has video

Andrew Lansley: ...8212;I hope that the House is grateful—to all those who worked on the Foresight programme and for their report. The Foresight programme makes a clear argument: our human biology has not much changed, but our environment and our society have. We lead less active lives; we enjoy plentiful energy-dense foods. It has become normal to be overweight. It will become normal to be obese if we...

Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]: Public Health (5 Dec 2006)

Andrew Lansley: ...Authority—terrific!—who have a record on public health of modest, limited expenditure on targeted campaigns, but who never do the thing that experience suggests is absolutely necessary: changing the culture and the climate. We do not need to look into a crystal ball—we have experience. There is a book showing that there was a time, in the mid-1980s, when a campaign...

Energy White Paper (24 Feb 2003)

Mr Andrew Lansley: ...our meeting our carbon emissions targets. Will the Secretary of State say that in January 2005, when a carbon emissions trading scheme that includes electricity generation is to be introduced, the climate change levy will be disapplied from the electricity generating industry?

Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (27 Jan 2003)

Mr Andrew Lansley: ...market operates means that the highest-cost producers disappear and the margin between overcapacity and supply is better balanced, that would be acceptable. However, the worst possible reason for changing NETA would be the lack of commercial success of operators who are uneconomic or who have failed to adapt to a market-led system. Intrinsically, we should move towards a liberalised...

Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (27 Jan 2003)

Mr Andrew Lansley: I shall come on to discuss the financial assistance. I did not mean to go on about the climate change levy, but it depends what the levy is for. The Minister would say that it is to stimulate energy efficiency, but if that were the principal purpose, surely one would apply it primarily to the domestic rather than the industrial sector. As he told the Select Committee, the industrial sector...