HEALTH: GOVERNMENT SPENDING
14 June: Baroness Thornton asked Her Majesty's Government which health agencies and arm's-length bodies will be affected by cuts in government spending during the Question ....... Lord Faulkner of Worcester: My Lords, given the huge success of the tobacco-control legislation passed in the previous Parliament, which has already produced so many benefits including, as we have seen from recent statistics, a dramatic reduction in the number of heart-attack victims admitted to hospital, will the Minister give an assurance that the excellent smoking-cessation programmes run by his department will be exempted from any programme of cuts? © Lords Hansard 14 June 2010 |