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HANSARDHealth: ObesityMy Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply, and it is great to hear the steps that the Government are taking, but when we held our recent inquiry into ultra-processed food, we…07 Jan 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillI will speak to my Amendment 46A and to Amendment 46, to which I have added my name. I also support Amendments 50 and 51A in this group, among others. I tabled Amendment 46A…17 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding: Regional MayorsMy Lords, we welcome the Government’s housing targets, but can the Minister assure us that new houses will be built to very high sustainable levels? We all know the cost to…05 Dec 2024HANSARDGreat British Energy BillMy Lords, I very much support what the noble Lord, Lord Alton, and the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff, said about tidal power. I have followed what has happened on the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDJournalists Detained or Killed OverseasMy Lords, so many conflicts now are incredibly dangerous that reporters who are on the front line—often the faces and the voices that we see and hear on our news channels—are not…13 Nov 2024HANSARDDrax Power Limited: Ofgem InvestigationMy Lords, I thank the Minister for that Answer. KPMG was commissioned by Drax to look into the results; this was done in secret at its behest, and it was reported in this week’s…11 Nov 2024HANSARDDrax Power Limited: Ofgem InvestigationTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of Ofgem’s investigation into Drax Power Limited, which found “Drax misreporting data” and “being unable to provide…11 Nov 2024HANSARDUnited Kingdom Declining Birth RateMy Lords, we will never get women back to work unless we have adequate childcare, which this country has failed to provide. In all the years that I have been involved in feminist…06 Nov 2024HANSARDBiodiversity Net GainMy Lords, is the Minister going to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas?06 Nov 2024HANSARDBiodiversity Net GainMy Lords, in all the planning applications in the biodiversity net gain provisions, are the Government paying attention to the importance of corridors that allow nature to travel…06 Nov 2024HANSARDFood BanksMy Lords, I declare my interest as the chair of Feeding Britain. The Minister has just outlined one of our social supermarkets, which are a bridge between a food bank and getting…31 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]I rise briefly to support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Gascoigne, on the use of nature-based solutions. The noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, mentioned a river in…30 Oct 2024HANSARDWater (Special Measures) Bill [HL]I rise to speak to Amendment 87 in this group, and I am very grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Parminter and Lady Browning, and the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, for their…30 Oct 2024HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionMy Lords, like everybody, I very much welcome this report. However, point 12 says that the Government are specifically ruling out looking at agriculture at the moment. Given that…29 Oct 2024HANSARDWaste: IncinerationCurrently, we are incinerating over a million tonnes of food waste a year, as well as 64,000 tonnes of potentially edible food that gets sent to anaerobic digesters; the latter in…22 Oct 2024HANSARDEarly Years Provision: Bell ReviewMy Lords—21 Oct 2024HANSARDEarly Years Provision: Bell ReviewMy question is: will the Government take heed of our report and look at the way products are marketed to mothers when they are young, vulnerable and not very well off?21 Oct 2024HANSARDEarly Years Provision: Bell ReviewMy Lords, we have just come to the end of a report on ultra-processed and HFSS foods. When it comes to early years nutrition, it is quite a Wild West out there. For a start, we…21 Oct 2024HANSARDFood and Drink Industry: Processed SugarMy Lords, we all welcome the Government’s introduction of free breakfasts. However, at the moment, about 26% of kids are going into school obese and 46% are leaving school obese,…14 Oct 2024HANSARDEnvironment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030My Lords, I congratulate hugely the noble Lord, Lord Goldsmith, on many things, including his speech; whether it overran seems irrelevant to me because it was a real barnstormer…11 Sept 2024