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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 30 November 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Lansley.

Public Health White Paper

Statement on the public health white paper.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
519 c669-87 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department of Health
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Deposited Paper DEP2010-2127
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
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Proceeding contributions
Diana Johnson | 519 c680 (Link to this contribution) Hull city council's recent record is of raising sports charges, blocking free swimming, axing free h...
Dan Poulter | 519 c682 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that, like me, the Secretary of State recognises that different population groups offer an...
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Lord Lansley | 519 c679 (Link to this contribution) I must disappoint the hon. Gentleman. We will publish shortly—I hope before Christmas—the consultati...
Lord Lansley | 519 c684 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady does not seem to understand. We have made no announcement in relation to the tobacco d...
Lord Blunkett | 519 c675 (Link to this contribution) Not so much nudge as fudge on this issue. Why will the Secretary of State not accept that giving tho...
Mike Weatherley | 519 c679 (Link to this contribution) Given my right hon. Friend's voting record in the last Parliament, and indeed that of most Governmen...
Paul Maynard | 519 c677 (Link to this contribution) Males in the Blackpool part of my constituency have only a 56% probability of reaching the age of 75...
Lord Lansley | 519 c678 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware of what my hon. Friend describes, and strictly speaking it does not relate to the Wh...
Emma Reynolds | 519 c678 (Link to this contribution) The Health Secretary rightly underlined in his statement the importance of tackling obesity. Is ther...
Joan Walley | 519 c676 (Link to this contribution) Whatever Government were in power, I would welcome an enhanced role for environmental health officer...
Lord Lansley | 519 c676 (Link to this contribution) We will publish a consultation on the outcomes framework soon, but smoking cessation and the absence...
Lord Lansley | 519 c676 (Link to this contribution) All councils will be supported to develop health improvement strategies. When we come to publish the...
Julian Smith | 519 c676 (Link to this contribution) May I urge the Secretary of State to ensure that councils serving very rural communities do not lose...
Stephen Dorrell | 519 c674 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on a White Paper that redeems his pre-ele...
Speaker | 519 c674 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is much interest in this subject but real pressure on time, with two heavily subscribed...
Philip Davies | 519 c680 (Link to this contribution) Many of the measures that my right hon. Friend proposes, such as the plain packaging of tobacco, for...
Lord Lansley | 519 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) I am wedded to achieving improvements in public health. Interestingly, today I have been accused bot...
Clive Efford | 519 c681 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State consistently comes to the House and announces policies that seem to have been...
Lord Lansley | 519 c681 (Link to this contribution) I think that I have already answered that question. The hon. Gentleman at least among Opposition Mem...
Anne Main | 519 c680 (Link to this contribution) In St Albans we are lucky that people live for quite a long time, but often elderly care packages ar...
Lord Lansley | 519 c680 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend may know, we are acting already. Through the spending review we have made very cle...
Lord Lansley | 519 c680 (Link to this contribution) There we have it: the Labour party as the opponent of local government. I am sure that people will r...
Edward Timpson | 519 c681 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree with local GPs in my constituency that one way to help reduce heal...
Lord Lansley | 519 c679-80 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Lady's point. Sir Michael Marmot has generously welcomed the White Paper's pro...
Lord Lansley | 519 c682 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The truth is that we know we have to take action nationally, and...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 519 c683 (Link to this contribution) Last year, Birmingham had about 500 confirmed cases of tuberculosis and there were calls for the cit...
Lord Lansley | 519 c682 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady. At least I know that she supports the proposal to transfer the respo...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 519 c682 (Link to this contribution) One of the clearest indicators of health inequalities is life expectancy. In two near-neighbouring w...
Lord Lansley | 519 c682 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do. My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The structure proposed in the NHS reform White Paper ...
Fiona Mactaggart | 519 c682 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the proposal to give public health responsibility to local government, but will the Secret...
Lord Lansley | 519 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) We have been very clear in the spending review and subsequent announcements that we will take the ri...
Andrew Gwynne | 519 c681 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned that the Government are investing £560 million in encouraging susta...
Lord Lansley | 519 c681 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I know that the GPs in Cheshire are a very go-ahead group and I am looking forward to seeing ho...
Lord Lansley | 519 c676 (Link to this contribution) I have had discussions with environmental health officers and they are enthusiastic about the opport...
Sarah Wollaston | 519 c676 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that about 30,000 people a year in this country die as a result of alc...
Lord Lansley | 519 c676-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that the Chancellor of the Exchequer made an announcement today about the l...
Alex Cunningham | 519 c677 (Link to this contribution) Which part of the health service or the Sure Start budgets will be cut to fund the new army of healt...
Lord Lansley | 519 c677 (Link to this contribution) The health visitor programme is not funded by cutting anything else; it comes from within the NHS bu...
Lord Lansley | 519 c677 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. Many aspects of the White Paper and subsequent str...
David Cairns | 519 c677 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the acknowledgement in the White Paper that about 25% of HIV cases in this country are cur...
Lord Lansley | 519 c677-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. Almost 22,000 people with HIV are unaware of their condition. We ne...
Charles Walker | 519 c678 (Link to this contribution) I have just learned that for the past year Hertfordshire primary care trust has been plotting to clo...
Lord Lansley | 519 c678 (Link to this contribution) No; the hon. Lady should not believe what she reads in newspapers. The Education Secretary is not sc...
John Pugh | 519 c678 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on his long-standing and personal commitment to public health ...
Lord Lansley | 519 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that question. The answer has two parts. First, the general practice-led commissio...
Simon Danczuk | 519 c679 (Link to this contribution) What proportion of the NHS budget will go to local authorities to provide for public health and how ...
Lord Lansley | 519 c679 (Link to this contribution) Through our tobacco control strategy, I am looking to achieve, as we will set out, a continuing redu...
Kate Green | 519 c679 (Link to this contribution) I genuinely welcome the Secretary of State's recognition of the importance of a cross-Government app...
Lord Lansley | 519 c686 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend tempts me to pre-empt announcements which properly fall to my colleagues in the Home ...
Andrew Griffiths | 519 c686 (Link to this contribution) I applaud the Secretary of State's commitment to tackling alcohol misuse and his determination to ba...
Lord Lansley | 519 c687 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and I have shared visits to Fairfield hospital on a number of occasions. I know how s...
David Nuttall | 519 c686 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Bury people will be happy and prepared to take responsibility ...
Bob Blackman | 519 c686 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the proposals to transfer public health to local authorities and, indeed, the ring-...
Lord Lansley | 519 c686 (Link to this contribution) I bow to my hon. Friend in his understanding of local government. My experience and understanding of...
Anne Marie Morris | 519 c686 (Link to this contribution) Given the Secretary of State's support for Sure Start, will he clarify his plans for Home-Start, as ...
Lord Lansley | 519 c686 (Link to this contribution) I will write to my hon. Friend about that. We are very clear that we are going to introduce a univer...
Lord Lansley | 519 c685-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point, and that was not all that happened. On the money availa...
Lord Lansley | 519 c683 (Link to this contribution) That is all complete nonsense. On sport and activity in schools, my right hon. Friend the Secretary ...
Pat Glass | 519 c683 (Link to this contribution) Is not part of the problem the way in which Departments continue to operate in silos, so the Secreta...
Lord Lansley | 519 c683 (Link to this contribution) The responsibility will be transferred to local authorities, and they will have the same obligation ...
Julian Lewis | 519 c683 (Link to this contribution) Given the commitment to popular choice, can my right hon. Friend confirm that when responsibility fo...
Catherine McKinnell | 519 c683-4 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said in his statement that politicians need ““to stop telling people to make ...
Robert Halfon | 519 c684 (Link to this contribution) Harlow parents will welcome the extra support for Sure Start, particularly after the scares from the...
Lord Lansley | 519 c683 (Link to this contribution) No; the response to infectious diseases will continue to be the responsibility of the Department of ...
Charlie Elphicke | 519 c683 (Link to this contribution) But when and how will action be taken on the evil of cheap supermarket booze?
Lord Lansley | 519 c683 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will not have to wait long for announcements from hon. Friends of mine in the Governm...
Andrew Percy | 519 c685 (Link to this contribution) I support any moves to reduce the use of tobacco throughout the country, and that is why I support t...
Lord Lansley | 519 c685 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, because I think that through these measures we will help to integra...
David Burrowes | 519 c685 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will recognise the description of alcohol treatment as a Cinderella service, wh...
Lord Lansley | 519 c685 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I entirely agree. The extent to which charities and the voluntary sector can initiate new ideas...
David Evennett | 519 c685 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and, in particular, the ring-fenced public health budget ...
Lord Lansley | 519 c685 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and I believe very strongly that we must work on the basis of evidence in public health, rather...
Lord Lansley | 519 c684 (Link to this contribution) When we publish the alcohol strategy, there will be more to say about that, but it is already clear ...
James Morris | 519 c684 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement. Does he agree that in local areas it is important for ...
Lord Lansley | 519 c684 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with what my hon. Friend says. I appreciated visiting a children's centre in Roeham...
Margot James | 519 c684 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the liberation of public health from its ivory tower. It will be able to do much more good...
Lord Lansley | 519 c675 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid the right hon. Gentleman is simply wrong about that: we have made no announcement, and I...
Lord Lansley | 519 c675 (Link to this contribution) The support for women seeking the termination of a pregnancy should include the fullest possible inf...
Nadine Dorries | 519 c675 (Link to this contribution) The White Paper states that we are going to provide easy access to confidential non-judgmental sexua...
Kevin Barron | 519 c675 (Link to this contribution) There is much merit in what the Secretary of State has announced. Will the new outcomes framework, w...
Lord Lansley | 519 c675 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. As in a number of other areas I have mentioned, we...
Lord Lansley | 519 c674 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his support. In fact, I did mention housing. However, ...
Stephen Williams | 519 c675 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the White Paper in general, and particularly welcome the commitment to rigorous and eviden...
Lord Lansley | 519 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his support for the strategy that is set out in the Wh...
John Healey | 519 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for advance copy of his oral statement. I am sure that the House will...
Lord Lansley | 519 c669-71 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on public health. Today, the Governmen...
Frank Dobson | 519 c674 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's proposal to return public health to local authorities, from which...
Lord Lansley | 519 c674 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his comments. Derek Wanless said that we needed an ““engag...
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Alcoholic drinks Disadvantaged Finance Drugs Health education Local government NHS Misuse Obesity Preventive medicine Screening Smoking Sexually transmitted infections Public Health England Public health
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