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HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, this has been an important and engaging debate. There has been consensus that childhood obesity is one of the biggest health problems this nation faces—and maybe not…04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillThe date that I have for the commissioning of the work is 2016, which means that we are even further down the road on that piece of work. I am well aware of the time that has…04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy noble friend was of course eagle-eared—I am mixing a metaphor—in that I did not address his point on that. I can tell him that, in 2016, the Government commissioned Public…04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all the noble Baronesses who have spoken in this group, and in particular to my noble friend Lady Cumberlege for all the work that she has done on…04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI believe that I said that the criteria for measuring the success of this policy have been set out in the impact assessment. I will happily send that to my noble friend. I do not…04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care BillI believe it is being conducted this year, but I will check that and come back to my noble friend and all other Members of the Committee, because I know there is significant…04 Feb 2022HANSARDHealth and Care Bill04 Feb 2022HANSARDEnterprise Investment SchemesMy Lords, the Government are committed to ensuring that any state support they deliver is done in a fair and appropriate way. In saying that, we keep all our schemes under review…03 Feb 2022HANSARDEnterprise Investment SchemesMy Lords, the Government are confident that the Enterprise Investment Scheme and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme we are talking about today are effective schemes that have…03 Feb 2022HANSARDEnterprise Investment SchemesThe Government are always keen to ensure value for money in those tax benefits or subsidies that they give. As my noble friend noted earlier, there is a sunset on these schemes,…03 Feb 2022HANSARDEnterprise Investment SchemesMy Lords, I am not sure that I agree with the premise of the noble Lord’s question. However, he is right to say that one way to judge whether the levelling-up agenda is having the…03 Feb 2022HANSARDEnterprise Investment SchemesMy Lords, we have put more than that sum of money into the health service, although I am not sure what that has to do with the Enterprise Investment Scheme. However, I can tell…03 Feb 2022HANSARDEnterprise Investment SchemesMy Lords, the Enterprise Investment Scheme and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme are world-leading in their generosity, with more than £2 billion of funds raised across the…03 Feb 2022HANSARDEnterprise Investment SchemesMy Lords, the schemes referred to by my noble friend are targeted at new and younger companies where asymmetry of information can make it difficult to attract the investment…03 Feb 2022HANSARDEnterprise Investment SchemesMy noble friend is correct about the success of the EIS scheme in terms of the amount of money raised. It is world-leading in that fact and has managed to do that under its…03 Feb 2022