Westminster Diet and Health Forum
According to its website:
- The Westminster Diet and Health Forum aims to provide the premier environment where parliamentarians, senior policy advisors, regulators and other decision makers can discuss critical issues, and exchange ideas and information with leaders from industry, responsible interest groups, analysts, academics, journalists and others.
- The Forum strives to be as inclusive, encompassing and relevant as possible. One aspect of this is a standard practice of all sessions including comments and questions from the floor. Another is flexibility in the planning of events to enable current and newly emerging issues to be reflected.
- In planning its programme of events the Forum consults parliamentarians, senior departmental officials, regulators, industry representatives and major interest groups. The WD&HF has no policy agenda of its own.
The Forum a project of Westminster Forum Projects a UK Limited Company, (Company number: 3856121)
Events
In February 2009, the forum is running a seminar on "Childhood obesity and Responsibility: the next step for policy". The seminar will discuss the "latest thinking on policy to address childhood obesity in the UK, the initial focus for the Government’s ambitious Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives strategy. Delegates will also discuss progress so far in the Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives initiative, and latest statistical indicators on the scale of the problem".[1] The seminar comes just after the main events of the Government's Change4Life initiative come on stream.
Among the confimed speakers at the seminar are Baroness Peta Buscombe who when chief executive of the Advertising Association was closely involved in the formation of Business4life the business coalition partner to the Change4Life initiative. Sandra GidleyMP liberal Democrat spokesperon on health and member of the All Party Parliamentary group on obesity.
People
- Christopher Whitehouse Director of the Westminster Media Forum, the Westminster Education Forum, the Westminster eForum. He is managing Director of the Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd
Patrons
- David Amess MP
- Charlotte Atkins MP
- John Austin MP
- Tony Baldry MP
- David Borrow MP
- Tim Boswell MP
- Paul Burstow MP
- Colin Challen MP
- Lord Clement-Jones
- Lord Colwyn
- Baroness Cumberlege
- Nigel Evans MP
- Professor the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
- Baroness Gardner of Parkes
- Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen
- Dr Ian Gibson MP
- Sandra Gidley MP
- Cheryl Gillan MP
- Julia Goldsworthy MP
- Chris Grayling MP
- Dr Evan Harris MP
- Lord Haskins
- The Earl Howe
- Joan Humble MP
- Dr Brian Iddon MP
- Rt Hon Michael Jack MP
- Dr Lynne Jones MP
- Martyn Jones MP
- Eleanor Laing MP
- Andrew Lansley MP
- David Lidington MP
- Lord Lindsay
- Tim Loughton MP
- Andrew Love MP
- Baroness Masham of Ilton
- Baroness Massey of Darwen
- Professor the Lord McColl of Dulwich
- Anne McIntosh MP
- Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP
- Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
- Anne Milton MP
- Austin Mitchell MP
- Baroness Morris of Bolton
- Lord Moynihan
- Dr Doug Naysmith MP
- Baroness Nicol
- Baroness Northover
- Mike Penning MP
- Lord Rea
- Chris Ruane MP
- Adrian Sanders MP
- Lord Skelmersdale
- Lord Simpson
- Dr Howard Stoate MP
- Lord Stone of Blackheath
- David Tredinnick MP
- Lord Walton of Detchant
- Professor Steve Webb MP
- Baroness Wilcox
- Sir Nicholas Winterton MP
Publications
The forum publishes the papers and reports discussed at its seminars. These publications use a similar style to that of official Westminster publications in the use of the portcullis symbol and plain buff/yellow covers. [2] [3]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Westminster Diet and Health Forum Planned events,Accessed December 18 2008
- ↑ Books by ISBN Nutrition and school age children, Accessed December 18 2008
- ↑ Books by ISBN Health Inequalities:Implementing the Choosing a Better Diet action plan, Accessed December 18 2008
