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	registered interest
	date	08/07/2020
	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	Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Independent Review
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, following the findings of the report by the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review First Do No Harm, published on 8 July, what plans they have to appoint an independent patient safety commissioner to monitor the relevant financial interests of medical professionals offering advice or oversight of medicines and medical devices.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
	uin	HL6608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2020 answer text <p>We have just received the report by the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, led by Baroness Cumberlege.</p><p>As we have advised this week, it is now time for us to consider this report and its recommendations carefully.</p><p>We will consider how this recommendation fits with the structures we already have in place.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 20/07/2020 15:26:59 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell
	tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1222170

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2020
	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	Health Services and Social Services: Nutrition
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to launch a nutrition skills training programme for community workers, including those from health, social care and third sector organisations, similar to the Nutrition Skills for Life programme by NHS Wales.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
	uin	HL6607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>The United Kingdom Government is represented on Health Education England’s steering group to develop a competency framework for healthier weight. Health Education England’s Healthier Weight framework aims to describe the competencies that health and care staff working in any setting need to equip them to fulfil their role to promote a healthier weight. The Healthier Weight framework is attached.</p><p>The emphasis for this framework to help prevention of excess weight gain and can be applied across all groups of health and care staff working in any setting including frontline staff, managers, commissioners and leaders and relevant to charities that provide services around healthier weight. It may be used in other settings such as individual’s homes, care homes, nurseries, children’s centres, schools, colleges and workplaces and with any community or any group within the population.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 22/07/2020 13:30:15 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Healthier weight competency framework -Guidance March 2020.pdf title Healthier Weight Framework
	tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1222168

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2020
	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	Nutrition: Costs
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the weekly cost of the Eatwell Guide diet; and whether that cost is affordable (1) for recipients of Universal Credit, (2) for apprentices, and (3) for those on minimum wage, including the minimum wage rates for those under 25.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
	uin	HL6605
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2020 answer text <p>The Eatwell Guide is a tool to demonstrate the different types of foods and drinks, and the proportions in which they should be consumed, that can contribute towards a healthy, balanced diet. There are a number of ways to eat a diet in line with the Eatwell Guide.</p><p>A 2016 study looking at the cost of achieving a diet in line with the Eatwell Guide concluded that although achieving this would require large changes to the current average diet, these changes would not lead to significant changes in the price of the diet. A copy of the paper Eatwell Guide: modelling the dietary and cost implications of incorporating new sugar and fibre guidelines is attached.</p><p>Public Health England has not assessed the affordability of the Eatwell Guide for particular population groups including recipients of Universal Credit, apprentices and those on minimum wage.</p> answering member printed Lord Bethell question first answered 22/07/2020 13:12:26 answering member 4708 label Biography information for Lord Bethell attachment 1 file name Eatwell Guide_modelling the dietary and cost implications of incorporating new sugar and fibre guidelines.pdf title Eatwell Guide
	tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle