Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) We are also rolling out anti-obesity drugs to give patients access to the most innovative drugs as part - Speech Link
2: Stephen Hammond (Con - Wimbledon) That would potentially affect real outcomes for a number of children. - Speech Link
3: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) In Mid Bedfordshire last year, 165 children—[Interruption.] - Speech Link
4: Neil O'Brien (Con - Harborough) That is on top of other measures that we are taking on obesity such as the sugar tax, calorie labelling - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) In 2023, it looked specifically at children aged one to five. - Speech Link
2: Lord McColl of Dulwich (CON - Life peer) My Lords, is the Minister aware that, in Canada, thousands of children have been fed on whole milk for - Speech Link
3: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) What we give children in schools is a key thing that the Government can affect. - Speech Link
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1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) years while it undertook a number of landmark inquiries on tobacco, the pharmaceutical industries and obesity - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I think I asked my first hybrid PMQ in my living room as my children danced in the background—it was - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) The evidence suggests that this will have the biggest impact on tackling obesity. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) The NHS Food Scanner is promoting to children a number of ultra-processed food items. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bull (CB - Life peer) Does he acknowledge and recognise that while one way to address obesity is calorie reduction, it is not - Speech Link
4: Lord Dubs (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, some years ago, the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly looked at obesity in children, during - Speech Link
5: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) They were changed in 2014, with permission granted to give children more sugar. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) of the latest research into the effects of ultra-processed food on the mental and physical health of children - Speech Link
2: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) It seems to be no coincidence that instances of heart disease, cancer, obesity and many other illnesses - Speech Link
3: Baroness Manzoor (CON - Life peer) that one-third of baby and infant foods contain ultra-processed food which, in effect, is leading to obesity - Speech Link
4: Lord Markham (CON - Life peer) That is why we are at the highest level of free school meals for children ever. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Steve Brine (CON - Winchester) Many children—often those of serving medics—who are straight A students want to go to medical school - Speech Link
2: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) Personalised medicine, genome therapy, new dementia and obesity drugs and artificial intelligence will - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Parents will not always know what their children are purchasing with pocket money; presumably children - Speech Link
2: Virendra Sharma (LAB - Ealing, Southall) , marketing them at children and selling them to children—no. - Speech Link
3: Maggie Throup (CON - Erewash) Like others, time and again I see children—and yes, they are children—with a variety of multicoloured - Speech Link
4: Caroline Johnson (CON - Sleaford and North Hykeham) wedding cake, because it would encourage people to eat fat, salt and sugar and that might drive the obesity - Speech Link
5: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) The motion refers to children. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Access to good-quality green space improves physical and mental health and lessens obesity. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) That means that 4.2 million children—29% of our UK children—were in poverty, up from 3.6 million in 2010 - Speech Link
3: None A third of children live in poverty. - Speech Link
4: None The statistics on children in low-income families show the number and proportion of children aged under - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Suzanne Webb (CON - Stourbridge) Ultra-processed food is linked to obesity because it is high in fat, sugar and salt and is highly addictive - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) The motherhood pay penalty means that mothers with two children take home 26% less income than women - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) were killed in Nigeria’s Plateau state in the first three weeks of June alone—seven men, women and children - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl of Effingham (CON - Excepted Hereditary) It is a concerning statistic that obesity currently costs the NHS £6 billion per year, which is set to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) pupils achieve, on average, a whole grade lower per subject at GCSE than the most affluent highly able children - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) remove barriers to returning to work, such as through the extension of free childcare to parents with children - Speech Link