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Miss Melanie Johnson: ...the contributions of all who have participated. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is common in the UK. It is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, stroke and premature death and a contributory factor in more than 170,000 deaths a year in England. The Government are committed to reducing deaths from heart disease. The recent World Health Organisation project on the...
Jane Ellison: Two sets of new and challenging targets for levels of salt in a wide range of foods that are commonly consumed both in and out of the home were issued through the Public Health Responsibility Deal earlier this month. Work is now underway to engage with businesses to adopt and work towards these targets. The Change4Life programme gives information to families and others on the benefits of...
Miss Melanie Johnson: Population average salt intake in the United Kingdom is currently around 9g per day. Previous studies have suggested that a reduction in salt intake from 9g to 6g per day would reduce diastolic pressure in the region of 2mm Hg. The recently published Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) report on Salt and Health (2003) states that, "On a population basis it has been estimated...
Lord Rooker: My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Willis, I have not come to complain about the lack of a Bill on health. I have come to complain about actions on health. Let us have a brief look at salt and sugar, two major health concerns. The related health problems from these substances cost the National Health Service billions. Salt is connected with high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease, and...
Neil Bibby: ...and care for the elderly and the vulnerable. In addition, we must do all that we can to avoid seeing again the scenes that we saw on the M8, which was fast descending into a case of life and death. It has been suggested that private contractors are reluctant to call on councils to assist with the salting of motorways and trunk roads because they would need to reimburse them for that. I...
Lord Patel: ...is essential for our diet and for making food tasteful. The second substance, trans fats or trans fatty acids, has no nutritional value and is not essential to our diet. Sodium chloride, or salt, is essential in small quantities. The maximum amount of daily salt intake recommended is six grams a day for an adult-about a teaspoonful-much less for children and no greater than one gram per...
Lord Prior of Brampton: My Lords, I think that is an incorrect labelling of the responsibility deal. It might not be perfect, but it has achieved some benefits, not just in relation to alcohol but in salt reduction and other areas. On drink and driving, the social argument has been won, and the number of deaths through drink and driving—although still far too high—has gone down from some 1,640 in 1979 to 240. So...
Nicola Sturgeon: ...better to say, I will let him preserve his voice. Tackling pensioner poverty should be a priority of the Executive, because it is clearly the Executive's responsibility. Shortly before her death, Barbara Castle said that the pensions policy of the Government in London was designed to "extend substantially the number of pensioners on means test". When that policy is leaving many pensioners...
Harry Cohen: ...and forgotten about—when the dietary health problems remain? Britain has one of the highest levels of heart disease among comparable western nations, and we also have a higher rate of premature death in both men and women. Dietary causes are among the reasons. Should not the Government take real action by giving a much higher profile to dietary health education and forcing food producers...
Mr Shapurji Saklatvala: ...and confidential report, which was printed and published for private circulation only by Captain E. D. Richards of the Calcutta Improvement Trust, in which it is stated that in certain wards the deaths of children up to 12 months for four years, 1916 to 1918, were never less than 575, and reached as high as 680. These are not things which a responsible Government can merely pass over with...
Peter Bottomley: ...idea that road casualty reductions are a matter of concern to me only. Road safety councils throughout Northern Ireland have been working on that problem far longer than I have. One reason why road deaths are down from 300 to 200 and will, we hope, reduce further, is because of all their work. Of course, I shall try to ensure that there is consistency in road salting, but I ask all drivers...
Mr Jo Grimond: My impression is that the rate of death duties in America is very much lower than it is here, and, if there is a gap, there will not be the same sort of gap in this country because people will be caught through death duties. The major and more serious point which the hon. and learned Gentleman made was that there could be evasions through transfer of controlling shares in private companies....
Paul Clark: Obviously, one would expect any Department worth its salt to keep the evidence always under review. Equally, the hon. Gentleman will be aware of evidence showing that where speed cameras were in place, there was a reduction of up to 42 per cent. in serious injuries and deaths. Of course we keep matters under review, but these measures save lives, and are one of the right ways forward for...
Caroline Flint: ...affected by air pollution. The link between air pollution and hospital admissions is derived from statistical correlations between daily air pollution levels and routine daily statistics on total deaths or respiratory hospital admissions. The Department's committee on the medical effects of air pollutants (COMEAP) estimated in 1998 1 that there were 10,500 respiratory hospital admissions...
Mr Hartley Shawcross: ..., the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum will not survive. It will not be used even in regard to these two cases. What is being done by this provision is to add two cases, those of Purchase Tax and Death Duties, to the six special cases which are already provided for in the Debtors Act. I do not think any hon. Member will wish me to enumerate the six existing cases, but I would mentioned two...
Mr Reginald Paget: ...into play. We have been defended by the American deterrent and by nothing but the American deterrent these past 20 years. Now the American deterrent has gone. I recommend hon. Members to read the SALT Agreement. The basis of that agreement is that each of the great Powers has bared its heart to the enemy. Each of them has said to the other, "Save for two years, we agree not to defend...
Lynne Neagle: Our diet is shaped by the options and opportunities available to us. When our high streets are full of fast food takeaways and our supermarket shelves are stacked with foods laden in fat, sugar and salt, it is no wonder that many of us struggle to eat healthily. On a typical food shop, we push our trolleys through whole aisles devoted to crisps and savoury snacks, we walk by thousands of...
Chris Skidmore: I defer to my hon. Friend’s knowledge, given that he is a lawyer who, I am sure, has encountered plenty of cases of dangerous driving, and death by dangerous driving, in his time. All I know is that we and the Sentencing Council need to give the courts more tools to deal with these cases. The judge who presided over Lovell’s trial said that he wished that he could have imposed a tougher...
Caroline Flint: ...in their everyday lives. Good voluntary initiatives do not end with the public sector. The food and drink industry has been working closely with the Food Standards Agency to reduce the levels of salt in processed foods, and excellent progress is being made. Many manufacturers and retailers have accepted the need for simpler front-of-pack labelling of salt, sugar and fat in food. When I...
Lord Rooker: The numbers of premature deaths attributed to air pollution are not routinely estimated on a weekly basis. It is not possible to identify individual patients affected by air pollution. The link between air pollution and deaths brought forward is derived from statistical correlations between daily air pollution levels and routine daily statistics on total deaths. Air pollution is associated...
