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Westminster Hall
Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease - Tue 28 Oct 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Sadly, four in 10 children with obesity may already have liver disease. - Speech Link
2: Simon Opher (Lab - Stroud) Friend the Member for Worthing West said, children also carry a great burden of obesity and overweightness—by - Speech Link
3: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) Children living with obesity are five times more likely than other children to live with obesity as adults.We - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
Committee stage - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None So we must resist these amendments, for my nephew and his cohort and now for younger children, who are - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) It is a public health crisis, as is obesity, on which the Government also need to take action. - Speech Link
3: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The number of children who smoke is falling as well.Those are not arguments for complacency or for not - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) This is about protecting children from the harms of smoking. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) Clearly, there is a problem even now with underage children buying vapes. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) that it is 59 years since the Aberfan disaster, when 144 people lost their lives, including 116 children - Speech Link
2: Bobby Dean (LD - Carshalton and Wallington) More elderly people require social care, there are more children with special needs, and more families - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) On Tuesday 28 October, there will be a debate on obesity and fatty liver disease. - Speech Link
4: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) It is very clear that the SEND system is broken: it does not work for parents or children, and it does - Speech Link
5: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon and Consett) The clocks turn back this Sunday and many children will soon go to school in the dark. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) There are families in my constituency who do not get any broadband connectivity, and their children have - Speech Link
2: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) consideration of—(a) life expectancy,(b) healthy life expectancy,(c) infant mortality rate,(d) rates of obesity - Speech Link
3: None consideration of—(a) life expectancy,(b) healthy life expectancy,(c) infant mortality rate,(d) rates of obesity - Speech Link
4: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) Rent controls are something close to my heart, and we heard new figures today showing that 172,000 children - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 16 Oct 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) On 28 October in Westminster Hall, there will be a debate on obesity and fatty liver disease, and on - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) It has now been over a year since the tragic murders in my constituency of Juliana Falcon and her children - Speech Link
3: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) An important part of that is healthcare for children, because they deserve a better future than what - Speech Link
4: Steve Yemm (Lab - Mansfield) Does the Leader of the House agree that children such as Jake should not be left behind? - Speech Link
5: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) The Government believe that the SEND system is broken; it does not work for children and their carers - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Healthcare: Bolton - Wed 15 Oct 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Kirith Entwistle (Lab - Bolton North East) One in five children starts school overweight or obese, and by year 6 that is 38%, which is well above - Speech Link
2: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South and Walkden) Parents spoke about their children waiting for assessment. - Speech Link
3: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) We have heard about the inequalities and poverty that many children in Bolton experience. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Baby Loss - Mon 13 Oct 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Michelle Welsh (Lab - Sherwood Forest) Our children deserve that safety, and the children yet to come deserve it too.While we cannot bring back - Speech Link
2: Michelle Welsh (Lab - Sherwood Forest) Let the memory of the children we hold in our hearts be the light that guides our resolve. - Speech Link
3: Chris Coghlan (LD - Dorking and Horley) It attacks only children, it attacks the brain, and it is untreatable. - Speech Link
4: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) I have seen photographs of parents’ children. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 18 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blower (Lab - Life peer) They help us value children as children, particularly those in the most marginalised groups. - Speech Link
2: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) living with obesity on record; severe impacts on children who are victims of domestic abuse; the amplification - Speech Link
3: None Act 1989 and the Children Act 2004. - Speech Link
4: None Some 30% of children engage in fewer than 30 minutes of daily physical activity, and obesity is growing - Speech Link
5: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) According to the latest Sport England’s Active Lives children and young people survey, only 45% of children - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) In days gone by, children could go out of their front door and play in the street without risk. - Speech Link
2: None Meanwhile, in this country, the consequences and costs of obesity, both on a personal and a national - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) It appeared that perhaps some members of the Government were scared by some of them as small children - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) Perhaps most poignantly of all, they would enable proper education for the children who suffer so markedly - Speech Link
2: Lord Mawson (XB - Life peer) I was met by an African mother with two rather beautiful children. - Speech Link
3: None Millions of children have grown up without the opportunities, experiences and support that they should - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Regular exercise helps prevent chronic illnesses such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease - Speech Link