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HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my noble friend for his comments, but my perspective is slightly different. The fact is that this disease is incredibly aggressive and nimble; we sometimes have to turn…14 Sept 2020HANSARDAnti-obesity StrategiesMy Lords, I am not sure I agree with the premise of the question. It is not my belief that the anti-obesity campaign will generate massive negative repercussions. The NHS’s work…14 Sept 2020HANSARDAnti-obesity StrategiesMy Lords, eating disorders are serious life-threatening conditions, and it is important that people have access to the right mental health support in the right place and at the…14 Sept 2020HANSARDAnti-obesity StrategiesMy Lords, the Government are committed to ensuring that everyone with an eating disorder has access to timely treatment. That is why we set up the first waiting times to improve…14 Sept 2020HANSARDAnti-obesity StrategiesMy Lords, I completely endorse my noble friend’s views. When it comes to mental health challenges and connections between obesity and mental health, the resources need to be put…14 Sept 2020HANSARDAnti-obesity StrategiesMy Lords, we are tracking the success of this obesity strategy, although it should be understood that this is generations in the making and may well take a while to work through.…14 Sept 2020HANSARDAnti-obesity StrategiesMy noble friend is right, and Covid has really spelt out the challenge in this area to the NHS and the Government. The incidence of serious Covid effects on BAME communities has…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness and the noble Lord for their perceptive and thoughtful questions. On the noble Baroness’s questions about the level of alert, to my knowledge…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateThe change in the alert level is done in consultation with the CMO and it is his advice that the circumstances have not changed enough for us to move it. On the average travel…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, the phenomenon we had noticed was that large groups of people, sometimes in pubs and sometimes in other congregations, would seemingly be from two households, but that…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I sympathise with my noble friend’s point, but I remind him that the regulations come into force later today. It is up to the Metropolitan Police to implement crowd…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I do not think that this Government are pressuring anyone into doing anything. We are keen to give those who have a reason to, whether personal or professional, the…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI am very glad to make that assurance: 13 billion items of PPE have been procured and made available for NHS, social care and other key workers. I pay tribute to my colleague and…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the noble Baroness for her testimony, which completely resonates with me. The current national prevalence is around one in 1,500, so there is a strong likelihood that, in…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Lord’s campaigning on this issue; he has contributed to the Government changing their strategy on mask wearing. However, we are here…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, that is the pub-quiz question of all pub-quiz questions. There are special provisions for families that are, like the noble Lord’s, separated or complex. Those…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I completely endorse my noble friend’s comments on raves, but the effectiveness of these measures is reliant not just on police implementation but the compliance of the…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, we have taken huge steps in the domestic production of PPE. In some matters, where the production is relatively straightforward, such as aprons, we have taken huge steps…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I agree that everyone can tell the difference between inside and outside, but everyone also has eyes, and may have seen, as I have, how people crowd together in the…14 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, my noble friend describes in the most beautiful and succinct way exactly the strategy that we are following. It balances on the one hand a fight against disease, a…14 Sept 2020