Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
"My Lords, I am grateful to all those who contributed to the debate. It is both helpful and timely at the conclusion of Committee to have exactly this debate. In a funny way, perhaps we should have had it at the beginning, because it helped to fill out some of …..."Lord Lansley - View Speech
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
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Speech in Grand Committee - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
"My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak to the last group of amendments in Committee. I hope that the smiles evident on the faces of Members, because we have reached this point, will encourage a positive response to this final amendment to be debated.
This amendment is rather neat …..."Lord Lansley - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 2nd December 2024
Asked by:
Lord Lansley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the scale of the bottleneck between medical foundation training and medical specialty training (1) in anaesthesia, and (2) across all other medical specialties; and what steps they are taking to address it.
Answered by Baroness Merron
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
We are committed to training the staff we need, including anaesthetists and all other medical specialities, to ensure patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it.
As of July 2024, there were 14,085 full time equivalent (FTE) anaesthetists working in the National Health Service and other core organisations in England. This is 407, or 3.0%, more than a year ago and 1,950, or 16.1%, more than five years ago. This includes 7,492 FTE consultants, which is 278, or 3.9%, more than a year ago and 886, or 13.4%, more than five years ago.
We have launched the 10-Year Health Plan which will set out a bold agenda to reform and repair the NHS. Ensuring we have the right people, in the right places, with the right skills will be central to this vision. We will ensure that the number of medical specialty training places meets the demands of the NHS in the future. NHS England will work with stakeholders to ensure that any growth is sustainable and focused in the service areas where the need is greatest.
Written Question
Monday 2nd December 2024
Asked by:
Lord Lansley (Conservative - Life peer)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take to address the workforce shortages identified in the Royal College of Anaesthetists' The Anaesthetic Workforce: UK State of the Nation Report published on 20 November.
Answered by Baroness Merron
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
We are committed to training the staff we need, including anaesthetists and all other medical specialities, to ensure patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it.
As of July 2024, there were 14,085 full time equivalent (FTE) anaesthetists working in the National Health Service and other core organisations in England. This is 407, or 3.0%, more than a year ago and 1,950, or 16.1%, more than five years ago. This includes 7,492 FTE consultants, which is 278, or 3.9%, more than a year ago and 886, or 13.4%, more than five years ago.
We have launched the 10-Year Health Plan which will set out a bold agenda to reform and repair the NHS. Ensuring we have the right people, in the right places, with the right skills will be central to this vision. We will ensure that the number of medical specialty training places meets the demands of the NHS in the future. NHS England will work with stakeholders to ensure that any growth is sustainable and focused in the service areas where the need is greatest.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Fri 02 Dec 2022
Health Promotion Bill [HL]
"My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Lord and to welcome his Bill, not only because I agree with its content but because it affords us an important opportunity to discuss how we might improve public health through not only legislation but local, voluntary and community action. I …..."Lord Lansley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 23 Nov 2022
Tobacco Control Plan
"My Lords, does my noble friend recall that in the former coalition Government, we made considerable progress in reducing smoking in this country, not least by focusing on the level of initiation of smoking among young people? We banned vending machines, for example. Will the Government consider raising from 18 …..."Lord Lansley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 17 Nov 2022
Childhood Obesity
"My Lords, I draw attention to my registered relationship with ukactive. I ask my noble friend whether he would agree that there is, on this occasion, as the noble Lord, Lord Stevens of Birmingham, said once, a silver bullet: it is called physical activity. This is in line with the …..."Lord Lansley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Oct 2022
Maternity and Neonatal Services
"My noble friend referred to the first recommendation for the prompt establishment of a taskforce to develop maternity and neonatal outcome measures. It is over a decade since we introduced the NHS outcomes framework but, far too often, it is not used as the basis for accountability inside the National …..."Lord Lansley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 May 2022
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
"My Lords, would my noble friend agree with me that the publication by NICE last month, about its work on evaluating new treatments for severe drug-resistant infection, was really valuable, in that it looked at the benefits across the health system as a whole as the basis for an assessment …..."Lord Lansley - View Speech
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