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Cabinet Office: Covid-19: Procurement Fraud (29 Feb 2024)

Jon Ashworth: ...-pound contract for gowns that could not be used. The Government had to incinerate billions of pounds-worth of faulty personal protective equipment. That is taxpayers’ money literally going up in smoke. In the pandemic the then Health Secretary, the right hon. Member for West Suffolk (Matt Hancock), told me at the Dispatch Box “where a contract is not delivered against, we do not...

British Justice System and International Corruption Cases (28 Feb 2024)

David Davis: ...such as Tom Burgis, upon whose new book “Cuckooland” I will draw today, we know that Amersi is deeply immersed in a twilight world of backroom bribes, creative accountancy, and a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. That is why he was so desperate to suppress Ms Leslie’s claims: he did not want to be exposed and have his carefully crafted public image—that of a savvy entrepreneur and...

Funding for Youth Services — [Derek Twigg in the Chair] (28 Feb 2024)

Tim Farron: ...more on investing earlier, so that we build the resilience of young people in ways that mean when a crisis comes, they are much more able to sustain themselves? We put effort into stopping people smoking and getting people to do physical exercise, so that they remain physically well, so why are we not investing in the same way in the things that we know will keep people mentally well...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Processed Food: Labelling (28 Feb 2024)

Lord Douglas-Miller: ...) should be accompanied by details of the physical condition of the food or the specific treatment which it has undergone (for example, powdered, refrozen, freeze-dried, quick-frozen, concentrated, smoked) in all cases where omission could mislead the purchaser. This means that consumers are able to examine the label on any food and determine whether it meets their particular requirements....

Northern Ireland - Motion for an Humble Address: Amendment to the Motion (27 Feb 2024)

Baroness Hoey: ...the only person who seems to have U-turned on all this is the leader of the DUP. His outburst on the Acts of Union is, I believe, about covering his U-turn. He is making efforts to create a puff of smoke around the Acts of Union to conceal the reality that, far from undoing the constitutional damage to that foundational legislation, he now accepts and implements it and thinks that, by...

Tackling Obesity — [Peter Dowd in the Chair] (27 Feb 2024)

Maggie Throup: ...is preventing ill health; I want to make it very clear that it is not nanny state, because good health provides choices. We are already looking at these issues through the way we are tackling smoking, and I commend my right hon. Friend the Minister for her proposed actions on that. Smoking is an addiction, and obesity is becoming an addiction—an addiction to food high in fat, salt or...

7. Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: Creating a smoke-free generation and tackling youth vaping (27 Feb 2024)

7. Statement by the Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Well-being: Creating a smoke-free generation and tackling youth vaping

2. Business Statement and Announcement (27 Feb 2024)

Lesley Griffiths: ...on the legislative consent motion on the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill will take place immediately after the business statement.  Finally, the statements on creating a smoke-free generation and tackling youth vaping and second homes and affordability have been postponed. Draft business for the next three weeks is set out on the business statement and...

1. Questions to the First Minister: Health Inequalities (27 Feb 2024)

Russell George: ...Minister. Cancer patients in Wales, of course, face unacceptable health inequalities. I know, from the work that the cross-party group on cancer has done, it recommends tackling risk factors, like smoking, as you've alluded to now, and obesity as well, and also introducing lung screening would help in terms of catching cancer and making it easier to have treatment all the quicker. Now, at...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Visual Impairment (27 Feb 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: ...provided annually. Diabetic retinopathy screening is also offered annually to individuals aged 12 years old or over, with diabetes. The Government also has well established programmes on reducing smoking and obesity, both long terms risk factors for sight loss. NHS England’s transformation programme is considering how eye care services should be commissioned for the future, to improve...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (26 Feb 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: Smoking is the number one entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability and death in this country. It is responsible for 80,000 yearly deaths in the United Kingdom and one in four of all UK cancer deaths. It costs our country £17 billion a year, £14 billion of which is through lost productivity alone. It puts huge pressure on the National Health Service and social care, costing over...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Tobacco: Sales (26 Feb 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: Smoking is the number one entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability and death in this country. It is responsible for 80,000 yearly in the United Kingdom and one in four of all UK cancer deaths. It costs our country £17 billion a year, £14 billion of which is through lost productivity alone. It puts huge pressure on the National Health Service and social care, costing over £3...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Tobacco: Sales (26 Feb 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: Smoking is the number one entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability and death in this country. It is responsible for 80,000 yearly deaths in the United Kingdom and one in four of all UK cancer deaths. It costs our country £17 billion a year, £14 billion of which is through lost productivity alone. It puts huge pressure on the National Health Service and social care, costing over...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Electronic Cigarettes: Sales (26 Feb 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: ...the worrying rise in vaping among children. Youth vaping has tripled in the last three years, and one in five children now use a vape. To address this, we recently published our response to the smoking and vaping consultation, which sets out our plan to restrict vape flavours, point of sale display, and packaging. The response is available at the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Tobacco: Labelling (26 Feb 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: Smoking is the number one entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability and death in this country. It is responsible for 80,000 yearly deaths in the United Kingdom and one in four of all UK cancer deaths. It costs our country £17 billion a year, £14 billion of which is through lost productivity alone. It puts huge pressure on the National Health Service and social care, costing over...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Tobacco: Sales (26 Feb 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: Smoking is the number one entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability and death in this country. It is responsible for 80,000 yearly deaths in the United Kingdom and one in four of all UK cancer deaths. It costs our country £17 billion a year, £14 billion of which is through lost productivity alone. It puts huge pressure on the National Health Service and social care, costing over...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Smoking: Health Services (26 Feb 2024)

Sarah Champion: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mental health trusts are implementing smoking cessation services.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Smoking: Young People (26 Feb 2024)

Karl McCartney: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the names of the organisations that responded to the consultation entitled Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping.

Heart and Circulatory Diseases: Premature Deaths (22 Feb 2024)

Andrea Leadsom: ...them. As ever, I thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for his thoughtful remarks, and say to him that I have already been in contact with the Minister in Northern Ireland about the smoking Bill. Meeting with him will be one of my early priorities. My hon. Friend the Member for Watford is a vocal supporter of the British Heart Foundation. On behalf of the Government, I thank...

Poverty Reduction - Motion to Take Note (22 Feb 2024)

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff: ...decades before the majority of illnesses become evident. Less than 20% of our health is determined by medical interventions; the vast majority is driven by wider social factors, including diet, smoking, housing, alcohol, air quality, education, poverty overall and working conditions. I remind the House that Bevan had been responsible for housing as well as health when he founded the NHS....


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