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Richmond upon Thames Liberal Democrats:Covering the constituencies of Twickenham and Richmond Park |
Wright and Sanders quiz Cameron at PMQs
December 27, 2011 5:52 PM
• [Dec 14] Simon Wright (Norwich South, Liberal Democrat): DOES the Prime Minister share my concern about the impact of pocket-money priced alcohol on the state of our nation's health and antisocial behaviour in our town centres, as well as about the damage it does to our community pubs?
David Cameron: The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely important point. There is no doubt in my mind that very-low-cost alcohol is part of the problem in our town centres. One of the answers that the Government have already come up with is to ban the deeply discounted selling of alcohol, but we need to look at the broader question of low-cost alcohol. I have noted very carefully the letter in the papers this morning from a whole set of people with great expertise on this, and we are looking carefully at the issue.
. . • Adrian Sanders (Torbay, Liberal Democrat): The Prime Minister will have seen the news this morning of the study on the excess deaths of people with diabetes-unnecessary deaths, if the condition is treated correctly. The national
service framework for diabetes comes to an end in 2013. Will the Prime Minister look at NSFs as a way of meeting the challenges in the health service and the health service budget, and helping people with diabetes?
David Cameron: I am very happy to look at the national service frameworks, as the hon. Gentleman suggests. The key issue with diabetes is that we need to raise the profile of the condition, because many people have it and do not know they have it-but also to look at the public health issues, because the explosion in diabetes is partly due to bad diet and obesity in childhood. We need to address those issues; otherwise we are always going to be dealing with the disease rather than trying to prevent it.
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