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HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesThe Government and the Department of Health and Social Care are reviewing the many impacts of Covid-19 that noble Lords will acknowledge. We are still trying to understand the…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesThe Government, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Social Care and many other partners, including Diabetes UK, are looking at the most effective way to tackle…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the noble Viscount for his question and welcome him to the House. The Government are taking a range of advice, including from SAGE, but also from the Chief Scientific…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the noble Baroness for sharing her experiences from Germany. We are relying very much on a range of scientific advisers to tell us whether we need to move to plan B but at…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord and noble Baroness for their questions, and I will try to clarify some of the issues. I also thank the noble Lord for his acknowledgement of my…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesI am beginning to wish I had eaten a full breakfast. With any strategy or programme, we always have to be careful about unintended consequences. As we focus more on obesity and…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesIn response to the increases in weight due to Covid-19, but also before, which led to more type 2 diabetes, the Government, the DHSC and the NHS have been looking in detail at how…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank the right reverend Prelate for his advice, and for pointing out the very important role that faith communities paid played helping many people get through the lockdowns.…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesMy Lords, helping people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight is one of the most important things we can do to improve our nation’s health, as I am sure many noble Lords…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesI am sure that noble Lords will agree that it is really important that we tackle these issues and respond to the weight increases over the Covid-19 lockdowns. In March, the…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesI thank my noble friend for that question and recognise the work she did with the Centre for Social Justice on this issue. The Government are keen to drive the NHS diabetes…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesAs well as looking at the important role that funding can play, it is important to do better with the money available. There are many things we can do to make sure that the…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCOVID-19: Type 2 DiabetesThe Government will consider a number of inputs in looking at the most appropriate strategy to address type 2 diabetes and, as many noble Lords have referred to, the increase in…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateI thank my noble friend for that question. The UK is world leading in genomics, and it is something that we can all be proud of. COVID-19 Genomics UK has now sequenced 1 million…21 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Plan BI am afraid I disagree with the noble Lord on that particular question. In fact, the UK is seen as a leader in the speed and efficiency with which it adopted vaccines. Countries…20 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Plan BI am not sure I agree with the noble Baroness on the figure she cites; I will double-check and write to her. On the triggers, it is clear that we have to look at a range of…20 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Plan BI thank my noble friend for making that valuable point. When one looks at the broken-down data, one sees that there are some demographics that have not taken up the vaccine as…20 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Plan BI thank the noble Baroness for pointing out the important issue that there is a trade-off. There are some who continue to argue against moving to plan B, and it is important that…20 Oct 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Plan BThe new office OHID, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, clearly assesses a number of factors and government policy to help those from more deprived communities and…20 Oct 2021