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HANSARDONS: UK Life ExpectancyThe noble Baroness is entirely right: 15% of children aged two to 15 are obese. That is a shocking figure, and extremely disappointing. We have already done a lot to bring in the…17 Dec 2020HANSARDONS: UK Life ExpectancyThe noble Lord makes his point extremely well: smoking rates in this country are far too high. The huge amount of Covid advertising at the moment has squeezed out a lot of our…17 Dec 2020HANSARDONS: UK Life ExpectancyMy Lords, I cannot give an answer in the round and explain every element, but we have to face up as a nation to the fact that some of our habits are unhealthy. In some communities…17 Dec 2020HANSARDONS: UK Life ExpectancyThe right reverend Prelate is right to emphasise some of the disappointing figures around children, and the north-east is one area where the challenge is greatest. But I remind…17 Dec 2020HANSARDONS: UK Life ExpectancyNo, I do not.17 Dec 2020HANSARDONS: UK Life ExpectancyMy Lords, the noble Lord is entirely right that this stalling of the life expectancy curve is extremely worrying, and he is right to emphasise the disappointing results in…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: VaccinationsI completely understand the noble Lord’s impatience to know that. I am afraid that I cannot provide him with a precise date. One reason why is because we do not know the…17 Dec 2020HANSARDONS: UK Life ExpectancyMy Lords, life expectancy is at its highest level ever, but we have seen improvements stall and we expect to see adverse impacts from Covid on life expectancy data in the future.…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: VaccinationsI am grateful to my noble friend for his championship of this important point. It is not necessarily the role of the department to rule on this matter, but I note that UK…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: VaccinationsThe noble Lord makes the point well. He is right that there are undoubtedly communities that conventional NHS outreach has not got to; we have learned that fact during Covid. Our…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19: VaccinationsI hear the concerns of both the noble Lord and his mother very clearly but I assure him that, to date, the rollout has very much focused on the 70 hospital hubs where we are…17 Dec 2020HANSARDCare Quality Commission ReportI completely acknowledge the noble Lord’s championship in this area. He is right that autism is a distinct condition that should not necessarily be treated in a clinical…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I pay tribute to the campaign and advocacy by the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, on masks. He has moved the needle on this subject. I would argue, perhaps, that…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Mackenzie, makes a powerful case. There is undoubtedly a dilemma about what we should do in the approach to Christmas. The country does deserve a…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, we always seek to give the public as much notice as possible. But I accept that one of the most frustrating aspects of this pandemic has been that the virus does not…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the restrictions in England have never been based on a two-week circuit breaker. It was not a policy that the DHSC supported.15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am enormously grateful for the work that the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, and the National Mental Capacity Forum have done during the pandemic. The issue of mental capacity and…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my noble friend for providing this opportunity to scotch that unhelpful rumour. I confirm that there are absolutely no animal components in the vaccine. That point has…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateIf I have heard the question correctly, that is exactly how the test release scheme works. Travellers are invited to sign the appropriate forms and after some days they can be…15 Dec 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, is right to be concerned. Some of the data we have on public attitudes is of extreme concern and the statistics he has referred to show…15 Dec 2020