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HANSARDONS: UK Life ExpectancyMy Lords, half the considerable difference in life expectancy between the richest and poorest in our country is entirely accounted for by smoking. At present, the Government are…17 Dec 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, the last words in this House of my late noble friend Lord Shutt of Greetland helped to carry an amendment to this Bill by 293 votes to 215. The majority for that…26 Nov 2020HANSARDTobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020My Lords, I declare an interest as a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health. As an officer of that group, I was pleased to welcome the ambition set…02 Nov 2020HANSARDFree School MealsMy Lords, I too am one of the few Members of the House of Lords who depended on free school meals, and it never made sense to me that you got this sort of support in term time but…27 Oct 2020HANSARDCancer Task ForceTo ask Her Majesty's Government how the new cancer taskforce will operate; and what funding that taskforce will be able to direct towards reducing any backlog in identifying and…20 Oct 2020HANSARDCancer Task ForceMy Lords, I refer to my interests as in the register. Cancer Research UK and Macmillan have reported that 2.4 million people are now waiting for screening, tests and treatments…20 Oct 2020HANSARDHealth Protection (Coronavirus, Local COVID-19 Alert Level) (Very High) (England) Regulations 2020My Lords, there is possibly nowhere else in the country more lacking in confidence and trust in Boris Johnson’s Government than Liverpool. Previous Conservative Governments spoke…14 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, in the debate on this Bill in the other place on 14 July, the Minister Chloe Smith spoke about “what we are doing to ensure that the registers are as accurate and…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, the Bill sets out a system for reviewing constituency boundaries which will result in changes much more dramatic than those of any previous reviews ever put in place. I…08 Oct 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, in 2013 and 2018 plans for revisions to constituency boundaries were published. They did not find favour with MPs, the Government dare not even produce the 2018 report…08 Oct 2020HANSARDHealth Care: GuidanceMy Lords, I refer to my entry in the register of interests. Older people are more vulnerable to complications from the virus. Many more of them will have diabetes, and many more…21 Sept 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, what we learned from the abortive boundary reviews of 2013 and 2018, conducted under the rules set by Parliament in 2011, was that they were very disruptive. Very many…15 Sept 2020HANSARDAnti-obesity StrategiesMy Lords, the need for psychological support for people with such eating disorders is often identified through face-to-face meetings with GPs. Is the Minister satisfied that it is…14 Sept 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, made an interesting speech and made points that the Minister might find hard to answer, but he did not make a case for this…10 Sept 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I sympathise with many of the sentiments expressed by those who want to protect some of the principles of existing constituency representation in Wales and Scotland, but…10 Sept 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I am pleased that we are all paying tribute to my noble friend Lord Shutt of Greetland and the membership of his Select Committee, and their advisers, for their…08 Sept 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, might also refer to what happened when he left in 1992, when the then Conservative Government more or less doubled expenditure on the…08 Sept 2020HANSARDParliamentary Constituencies BillMy Lords, I speak today as someone who at the age of 16 was secretary of the Liverpool Wavertree Constituency Liberal Association, so I have always supported votes at 16. When it…08 Sept 2020HANSARDRepresentation of the People (Electoral Registers Publication Date) Regulations 2020My Lords, I concur with the generous opening remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, but I have questions that need to be asked about the Government’s approach to these issues.…03 Sept 2020HANSARDMedicines and Medical Devices BillMy Lords, the Bill is necessitated by Brexit but, as many noble Lords have said, it does not provide the detail required to address the concerns about protecting patient safety,…02 Sept 2020