Lord Taylor of Warwick

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to provide further advice to schools on how to tackle childhood obesity.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to address the rising numbers of child abuse allegations.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to make the National Health Service more efficient and to reduce mistakes in practice.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the assessment in David Anderson QC’s annual report that the definition of terrorism is currently too broad.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to improve the student loan system, should it prove to be too inefficient in its current format.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are their long-term targets concerning the prevention and punishment of female genital mutilation (FGM), in the light of recent reforms and the creation of an FGM unit.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what their evaluation is of the report by Matthew Oakley, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions, on the imposition of benefits sanctions.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they consider that offering statins to more people will discourage the adoption of long-term healthy lifestyles.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the proposed expansion of weight loss surgery in England is a long-term strategy for public health; and what effect they predict its implementation will have.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how effective they expect the extension of the special measures process to failing care homes to be.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how effective they consider the process of special measures to have been for failing hospitals.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how they plan to strengthen regional economic power.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the advice given by healthcare practitioners to patients with knee osteoarthritis.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their strategy for reducing the risk of radicalisation of young people; and how they will work with schools to reduce that risk.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recent report by the Migration Advisory Committee about the effectiveness of employment rules, what plans they have to review and, if necessary, amend those laws.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the likely impact of the forthcoming charge for plastic bags on usage; and what are their long-term waste reduction targets.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to take action to improve accident and emergency unit waiting times, in the light of reported missed targets over the last year.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many obese (1) men, and (2) women, between the ages of (a) 30–35, (b) 35–40, and (c) 40–45, have required knee replacement surgery in the past four years.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the rate of maternity unit closures; and what steps they intend to take in respect of such closures.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the survey by the Nuffield Trust suggesting that almost half of National Health Service managers believe that patients will be forced to pay for some services within 10 years.