I disagree with my noble friend. Natural England gets a lot of attention in certain areas, but it also does a lot of work that is not properly recognised.

Analysis of 2025 Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) data shows that the number of FLS’ in England has increased since 2024, from 80 to 83. These 83 services are based in 23 out of the 25 integrated care board (ICB) clusters.

Analysis of the 2025 data suggests that no ICB clusters had an FLS in each of the NHS hospitals within the ICB clusters. The number of FLS’ per ICB cluster ranged from one to eight.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is currently exploring a wide set of reforms to the existing food system, and this will include consideration of a statutory Food Hygiene Rating Scheme in England. As part of this work, the FSA will review the available legislative options and update its assessment of the associated costs and benefits of a statutory scheme. Ministers will consider proposals in due course.

Defra publishes annual data on greenhouse gas emissions embedded within goods and services imported into the UK here (see attached) as part of the UK and England’s Carbon Footprint.

Because of the methodology used, Defra does not hold data on these emissions at an individual product level, so the department is unable to publish estimates of greenhouse gas emissions embedded specifically within the supply chains of energy intensive goods, car batteries, and solar panels, imported into the UK.

For further information, a methodology document is published alongside the UK and England’s Carbon Footprint statistics here (see attached).

As more people choose to switch to cleaner, greener electric cars, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has forecast fuel duty receipts will decline to around half current levels (around £12 billion) in the 2030s in real terms. Receipts are then expected to approach zero by 2050.

That’s why in the Budget in 2025 the Government announced the introduction of Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED), a new mileage charge for electric and plug-in hybrid cars, which will come into effect in April 2028. All UK-registered electric and plug-in hybrid cars will pay eVED, but the rate of eVED paid by electric vehicle drivers will be half the fuel duty rate paid by the average petrol/diesel driver, ensuring that it will still be cheaper to own and run an EV for the majority of EV drivers, with a reduced rate for plug-in hybrid drivers.

The UK’s total offshore wind capacity and electricity generation, 2018-2025, are presented in this table:

Source: UK Energy Trends table 6.1, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables

The most recent Office for National Statistics figures show that up to 453,900 full-time equivalent jobs were in the UK’s low carbon and renewable energy economy and wider supply chain in 2024.

The UK Government’s Clean Energy Jobs Plan sets out that the clean energy workforce could grow to 860,000 jobs by 2030, an increase of over 400,000 from 2023.

Independent Robert Gordon University analysis indicates that, under a pathway consistent with delivering clean power, job creation in clean energy sectors is expected to exceed projected job reductions in oil and gas, with renewables supporting more jobs overall over time.

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) is operationally independent from His Majesty's Government. NESO set out pathways to a clean power system in 2030, and confirmed it was deliverable and could see lower electricity costs and bills.

Clean power gives us greater energy security, reducing our dependency on volatile global fossil fuel markets and delivering a diverse, secure and clean energy system based on renewables and nuclear, backed by a reserve of gas supply to be used only when essential. Over time it should significantly lower the wholesale costs of electricity, which will benefit heavy industry and has the potential to bring down consumer bills for good.

Government is already breaking the link between wholesale gas prices and consumer bills by accelerating the deployment of low-cost renewable electricity technologies to reduce our reliance on international fossil fuel markets.

Furthermore, Government plans to offer legacy low-carbon generators the option to move onto fixed price contracts, known as Contracts for Difference (CfDs). We will consult this year and intend to run an allocation process in 2027 to award such contracts.

Finally, Government has acted to tax excess profits by raising the rate of the Electricity Generator Levy from 45% to 55%, ensuring a proportion of any exceptional revenues is available to Government to support households with their cost of living.

The UK has a highly resilient energy network, with diverse and secure electricity supplies; Government is confident that operators can effectively balance supply and demand in a wide range of scenarios.

Nevertheless, as a responsible Government we work continually and closely with industry and across Government to maintain this resilience, planning for a range of risks and to identify opportunities to mitigate the impacts of actual or potentially disruptive incidents.

We will implement measures in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act to make it cheaper and easier for leaseholders to extend a lease or buy their freehold (enfranchisement). The Act caps ground rent in the enfranchisement calculation at 0.1% of the freehold value.

We will also cap ground rents via the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill at £250 transitioning to a peppercorn after 40 years.

I refer the Noble Lord to the government’s draft Impact Assessment for the draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill. This was published on 19 March 2026 and can be found on gov.uk here (attached). It has been reviewed by the independent Regulatory Policy Committee which published its opinion on 1 May. It can be found on gov.uk here (attached).

Our 10-Year Health Plan committed to rolling out Fracture Liaison Services (FLSs) across every part of the country by 2030.

The Department does not routinely collect data on the number of FLSs. The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme, which includes a dedicated FLS database, is a clinical audit of fracture prevention care, delivered by the Royal College of Physicians. The FLS database collects, measures, and reports on the care provided by FLSs in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It does not include opening and closing dates of FLSs but provides an annual snapshot of the number of FLSs that have submitted data. The database is available at the Fracture Liaison Service Database’s website.

There are no ‘early diagnosis centres’ for osteoporosis as such. Many patients with osteoporosis will be diagnosed in primary care. Additionally, osteoporosis assessment services can be run from a number of different specialities, for example rheumatology, endocrinology, or older people’s medicine.

We would expect healthcare professionals to follow the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence clinical knowledge summary on osteoporosis and the prevention of fragility fractures.

The Royal College of General Practitioners also has an e-learning module for general practitioners on the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis, developed in collaboration with the Royal Osteoporosis Society, which helps to ensure there is consistency across general practitioners in the management and treatment of osteoporosis.

We are supporting better care for patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, including osteoporosis, through the Getting It Right First Time Programme (GIRFT) for Rheumatology. The GIRFT rheumatology programme is supporting the National Health Service to deliver care more equitably across the country and improve services nationally.

Additionally, the GIRFT community MSK workstream is working to better enable integrated care systems to commission the delivery of high-quality MSK services in the community, including for patients with osteoporosis.

Not all deaths are directly attributable to the fracture, and complications following a fracture are often related to pre-existing ill health and frailty.

For hip fractures, data is available through the National Hip Fracture Database, which is part of the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme, a clinical audit of fracture prevention care delivered by the Royal College of Physicians.

The National Hip Fracture Database collects data on the care and outcomes for the over 70,000 people who have a hip fracture each year in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Data from the National Hip Fracture Database for 2024 shows that the percentage of patients who die in the month after a hip fracture in England is 6%.

We do not have data on the number of deaths after other types of fractures.

Well, I imagine the impression has got around because people are not listening to what is actually being said about the position of sanctions as far as Putin and Russia are concerned and how that relates to third-party products, particularly jet fuel, which is a current urgent situation. As far as the overall picture is concerned, it is clearly the case that sanctions are not being relaxed against Putin’s Russia and, indeed, on the contrary, are being increased.