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1586045

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date	09/02/2023
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Infant Foods: Marketing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to enforce the ban on marketing baby (under six month) child milk formula in the UK; and whether they plan to extend the ban across all child milk formula.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL5589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2023 answer text <p>In England overall responsibility for enforcement of the legislation governing infant formula and follow-on formula, including the marketing restrictions which apply to infant formula, rests with Local Authorities. Local authority enforcement officers will usually be the Trading Standards or environmental health department of the local authority or Port Health Authority.</p><p> </p><p>In the United Kingdom, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is responsible for regulating advertising across traditional forms of media (print, radio, television) through its Broadcast and online advertising through its non-broadcast codes. The ASA’s rules on formula advertising are backstopped by Trading Standards. This means that the ASA can refer cases if necessary for Trading Standards to take a view on whether there are breaches of the law and apply tougher sanctions as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to extend the restrictions on the marketing of infant formula to include other breastmilk substitutes.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 16/02/2023 10:51:02 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1405028

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date	20/01/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: Discrimination
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking, alongside sporting bodies and associations, to combat sexism in sport.
tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
uin	HL5589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2022 answer text <p>There is no place for sexism in sport. It is vital that sports bodies continue to work together to tackle it – and, indeed, discrimination of any kind.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that sport is inclusive and free from discrimination. Recent changes to the Code for Sports Governance mean that all sport organisations receiving public funding from either UK Sport or Sport England (including national governing bodies) are now required to develop a detailed and ambitious diversity and inclusion action plan. These plans should set out how they intend to improve diversity and inclusion across the whole of their organisation, not just at board level. The Code also now requires each funded sport to appoint a board member to lead on welfare and safety across the organisation.</p><p>We have also established a working group on women’s sport, which the Minister for Sport chairs, to explore the challenges and opportunities in women’s sport, and meetings have focused on participation, visibility, and commercial investment. The Government also welcomes the work of organisations such as Women in Sport and Women in Football in challenging discrimination and breaking down inequalities between the sexes.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 31/01/2022 14:59:58 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

1203081

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date	11/06/2020
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Visual Impairment: Coronavirus
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to (1) meet the needs of blind and partially sighted people as the restrictions in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic are lifted, and (2) ensure that blind and partially sighted people are able to play an active role in society.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL5589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that disabled people can play a full role in society, with a manifesto commitment to publish a National Strategy for Disabled People. All equality and discrimination laws and obligations continue to apply during the Coronavirus pandemic. We worked with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to transcribe gov.uk pages on general coronavirus guidelines and financial advice into spoken word formats. This guidance is available on RNIB phone lines. This ensures that visually impaired people without access to the internet are able to receive the same advice as sighted people with internet access.</p><p>We recognise that some people with disabilities face particular difficulty in social distancing, or are impacted by the reaction of others to their inability to socially distance. We are considering how we ensure that disabled people are able to socially distance in order to protect themselves from Coronavirus and from adverse attention from people who perceive that they are not adhering to guidelines on social distancing.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Stedman-Scott grouped question UIN HL5588 question first answered 19/06/2020 13:09:08 answering member 4174 label Biography information for Baroness Stedman-Scott
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock