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Chris Philp: ...violence. Although serious violence is down by 25% over the last four years, and even though homicide has reduced this year compared with last year and is lower than it was in 2010, every single death, and every single incident of serious violence or homicide, is an individual tragedy, and we need to do more to get the figures down even further. On the Government’s work in this area, we...
Tony Lloyd: ...Roosevelt. It was particularly important because the world had just lived through the most astonishing atrocities: the dehumanisation of the individual, with six million Jews killed in the death camps along with untold numbers of gypsies, gay people and Slavs. Even though those were Hitler’s evil crimes, it is, perhaps, worth quoting Stalin, who said that one death is a tragedy, a...
Andrea Leadsom: Smoking is responsible for around 80,000 deaths a year in the United Kingdom. Smoking causes around one in four cancer deaths in the UK and is responsible for just over 70% of all lung cancer deaths. No other consumer product kills up to two-thirds of its users. Smoking costs our country £17 billion a year and puts a huge burden on the National Health Service. Almost every minute of every...
Marion Fellows: ...for food businesses in Scotland and the rest of the UK came into force on 1 October 2021. Known as Natasha’s law, it requires businesses to label all food that is pre-packed for direct sale with a full list of ingredients, with the 14 major allergens emphasised. Such information can help parents and students to know what they are buying and whether it is safe for them to eat and to take...
Jane Dodds: ...risks of cardiovascular and respiratory illness as well. According to the European Environment Agency, in 2019, exposure to these miniscule toxic particles in the UK was tied to over 33,000 early deaths. The figures really are alarming. According to UK Government data last year, wood burning at home now generates more fine particulate pollution than total road traffic across the UK. Data...
Neil Coyle: I rise to speak to amendments 226 and 227 in my name, which would introduce a take-down power to ensure that unsafe or counterfeit goods are removed from sale online. We covered this issue in some detail in the Bill Committee, where the problem of dangerous online sales was likened to the wild west, due to the risks to individual consumers and the lack of governance. I am disappointed that we...
Kim Johnson: What assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of UK arms sales to Israel on (a) civilian deaths and (b) compliance with international humanitarian law in Gaza.
Jenny Rathbone: ...the end of the fourth Senedd, these clauses had to be pulled from the Public Health (Wales) Bill. Since then, we've allowed the tobacco companies to run rip by repackaging their shrinking tobacco sales into nicotine vapes. New vaping sales outlets are springing up on a weekly basis, with more and more people becoming caught up in this addiction. All that money spent on helping people to...
Mary Glindon: ...—safe vaping products. I again stress the message that comes from the Department: “If you smoke, change to vaping. If you don’t smoke, don’t vape.” Someone dies from a smoking-related death every eight minutes, as my hon. Friend just said. While not risk free, vaping is 95% safer than smoking, but there are still more than 6.5 million adult smokers in the country who have not...
Lord Rennard: ...are made every year because of smoking. In England alone, nearly 200 people will die every day because of smoking. The tobacco manufacturers try to suggest that the frequent ill health and the 50% death rate of those who smoke are a simply a matter of their personal choice, but smoking tobacco has consequences for many other people beyond those trapped by nicotine addiction. Aged 16, I was...
Bob Blackman: ...I was delighted to hear him take up those words of wisdom. I have also spoken to Professor Sir Chris Whitty on what we need to do to ensure that smokefree 2030 actually happens. Raising the age of sale will prevent people from becoming addicted to smoking in the first place. Government modelling suggests that we will avoid up to 115,000 cases of stroke, heart disease, lung cancer and other...
Lord Benyon: The Government funded Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) investigates the causes of death of stranded cetaceans (dolphins, whales and porpoises) around the United Kingdom coast. As part of this programme, routine investigations of seal strandings were also re-introduced to the programme in 2022, improving our understanding of, and ability to tackle key threats to the animals....
Neil O'Brien: ...This command paper sets out:Plans to bring forward legislation to make it an offence to sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009. In effect, this would mean that the age of sale of tobacco products will increase by one year each year, so that children turning 14 years old or younger this year will never be legally sold tobacco, phasing out tobacco over time and...
Lynne Neagle: ...that e-cigarettes were intended to be used as a tool to help people give up smoking, and many people do still choose to use them for that. We know that tobacco is the biggest cause of premature death here in Wales, and has devastating impacts on individuals, their families and our society. As smoking is such an indiscriminate killer, last year, we set out our ambition for Wales to be smoke...
Jane Dodds: ...adults with severe mental illness die prematurely each year from physical illnesses exacerbated by their higher likelihood of unhealthy behaviours like smoking. Around 1,500 of these preventable deaths occurred in Wales alone. If we truly wish to reduce the future burden on our national health services, tackling smoking prevalence must be a top priority. In particular, we should focus our...
Jane Dodds: ...22 August, which produced concerning reports of collisions, dogs hitting walls and losing their footing. Two dogs reportedly had to be carried off, with one seriously injured, and withdrawn from sale. We know that 4,354 greyhound racing injuries in England occurred last year, and 244 deaths. So, I would like to know from you how quickly we can move on to hear the voice, hopefully, of...
Justin Madders: ...at the moment as well. The Sky News investigators found that age verification was skipped and that balloons were offered in accompaniment to cannisters, so there was no pretence at all that those sales were for legitimate purposes. That ease and the apparent openness about the intended use of the gas is astonishing, especially given that someone can end up with a seven-year prison sentence...
Kevin Hollinrake: My Department monitors high street economic activity closely. Sales data from BDO High Street tracker[1] show that total in-store sales grew 5.1% in June 2023, driven by strong fashion sales (+7.2%), with in-store sales now 14.8% above June 2022 levels. Data from the British Retail Consortium[2] show that high-street footfall increased by 0.6% in June 2023 compared with the same month in the...
Gillian Mackay: ...my condolences to anyone who has lost a loved one to alcohol misuse. I also thank Alcohol Focus Scotland and SHAAP for their tireless efforts to tackle alcohol-related harm. Every alcohol-related death is a preventable tragedy. This is a human rights issue. As elected representatives, we have a responsibility to act on it. Many others have covered recovery and treatment services. My...
..., and we will launch the national centre for remote and rural health and care. We will publish a new delivery plan for mental health and wellbeing. We will continue with our mission to reduce drug deaths, and we will invest in alcohol and drug partnerships. Recent drug deaths figures show that we are heading in the right direction but no more than that. The scale of the challenge in front...
