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Marcus Jones: ...by: people such as Robert Townsend Smallbones, consul-general in Frankfurt, who worked night and day to issue Jewish families with visas as he knew that a visa meant the difference between life and death; or Captain Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese military officer and a United Nations military observer during the 1994 Rwandan genocide who saved many lives during his time in Rwanda through...
Lisa Cameron: .... Busy lifestyles and easy access to convenience and processed foods have helped them to become a staple part of many families’ diets. In general, we over-consume foods high in fat, sugar and salt, and we do not eat enough fruit, vegetables, fibre and oily fish. Our type of diet underlies many of the chronic diseases that cause considerable suffering, ill health and premature death. It...
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...
Lord Crisp: ...social isolation and loneliness in old age have the equivalent health impact of smoking 15 cigarettes a day and a slow recovery from illness. There is recent evidence that they also lead to earlier death. Having a social network and some meaning in life is hugely beneficial. Some groups in the population are affected more than others, including people with mental health problems. Men with...
Lyn Brown: I hope that the Minister is right. I fear that the head shops will transmogrify and change what they do. They will still exist, selling bath salts and other things, and it will be up to us and local authorities to prove that the substances they are selling—ostensibly to go into the bath or to feed fish—are in fact being used for nefarious purposes and are illegal highs. Although I...
Lord Framlingham: ...persuade our unique game to stay amateur. I wrote to every club in the land but, although many did not want to do it, I was told that it was inevitable. Nothing is inevitable, apart of course from death and taxes. I remember standing on the terrace of the House of Commons with the late, great Cliff Morgan, who was totally opposed to professionalism. He agreed that if I started an amateur...
Paul Wheelhouse: ...know an NPS product’s content and the dangers that it might pose. New psychoactive substances are substances whose sale is not restricted, perhaps because the products can be passed off as bath salts, for example. If taken by an individual, they mimic the effects of controlled drugs and can be just as harmful. Indeed, we know that they are already having fatal consequences. The number of...
Dennis Robertson: ...to the debate, Presiding Officer, you probably said it better than I am going to: we are debating the 25 by 2025 framework, which is a World Health Organization initiative to reduce the number of deaths from non-communicable diseases, which are generally known as NCDs. What are they? They are diseases including cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes and cancers. Many...
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town: ...of regulating fundraising by charities from individual donors. By way of background, although chugging and cold calling have long been issues of frequent complaint, it was the very sad case of the death of Olive Cooke, herself a lifelong donor and a volunteer poppy seller, which brought to light the unacceptable behaviour of a number of the big fundraising charities and the inadequacy of...
Stuart McDonald: ...conscience, “detained solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression”, and noted: “Even in Saudi Arabia where state repression is rife, it is beyond the pale to seek the death penalty for an activist whose only ‘crime’ was to enable social debate online”. Numerous other campaign groups, such as Free Raif UK, English PEN and other well known human rights...
Sharon Hodgson: ...Members campaigned on during the election. However, as too many have learned the hard way over the past five years, we should always take Tory promises on the NHS with a rather large pinch of salt. The Gracious Speech spoke of securing the future of our NHS. That is the same future that five years of Conservative policies have put in dire jeopardy, which is why Labour in opposition must...
Alex Easton: I beg to move That this Assembly expresses its concern at the impact of legal highs and in particular at the number of resulting deaths; and calls on the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to continue his work with the Home Office to ensure the introduction of new legislation across the United Kingdom to ban new psychoactive substances. The use of legal highs is a growing...
Chris Ruane: ...arrests occur out of hospital each year, and less than one in 10 people survive. That statistic should worry us all as MPs with constituents, and as members of families and communities where such deaths regularly occur year in, year out. Those statistics mean that, if I were to have a cardiac arrest outside hospital now, my chances of being able to go home and see my family tonight would...
John Dallat: ...the red flag Act, when someone walked in front of a steam engine and did not allow it to travel at more than 4 mph. We are talking about 20 mph, so perhaps we can consider that. Any Act worth its salt will work when people are convinced that it is valuable and good. I know that 13 million people in the neighbouring island of Britain are already signed up to 20's Plenty-type schemes. The...
Philip Davies: ...and America, which benefit from much cheaper energy bills. The extension of wind energy that the right hon. Gentleman wants to see is not helping manufacturing industry in this country; it is the death knell for manufacturing industry in this country. That is why it is so important that we stop this ridiculous expansion of wind energy. I have a concern about my hon. Friend’s Bill. I...
David Ward: ...want to be here today. Unfortunately, he cannot be here. He sent his apologies to me, which I felt I should pass on. Allegedly, Mark Twain once said something along the lines of rumours of his death being greatly exaggerated. Based on my experiences over a long period of time—it has certainly been my experience as an MP for the past four years—I can strongly confirm that rumours of the...
Dominic Bradley: ...would anyone want to do that to a young man of 21? The reason is that those people wanted to show who was boss in the area. They wanted to show who had control of the area. Remember, Paul’s death happened nine years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. The dirty war was over, but it seemed that a dirty peace was beginning. I remember going to the hospital in Drogheda that...
Hilary Salt: This is largely the same point, because you may be right when you say that freedom and choice in pensions will mean that you can take your pot and leave it in equities for a long time post-retirement. That might be true for some people. For a lot of people on low and median earnings, that is really not an issue, partly because the kind of products that they will have that would...
Richard Simpson: The attempts to reformulate foods with lower levels of salt remain important. Working with the industry on that will be an important part of FSS’s work. On saturated fats, although excellent progress has been made in reducing the amount of trans fats—members might remember that I proposed a member’s bill to try to eliminate substantially the presence of trans fats, except in natural...
Diana R. Johnson: ...made two interesting suggestions: one was about the seizures that could take place at the ports, and the other was about putting the onus on sellers to show that what they are purporting to be bath salts really are bath salts and are not to be consumed. Many Members across the country have seen a proliferation in the number of head shops opening in the high streets in their constituencies,...
