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A Select committee is one that is set up by the House of Commons or Lords, usually for a whole Parliament, to look at particular subjects.  
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The Health Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the policy, administration and expenditure, of the [[Department of Health]] and its associated bodies.  
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In the House of Commons the select committees examine the expenditure, administration and policy of each of the main government departments and associated public bodies. Select committees have the power to take evidence and issue reports
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<ref>House of Commons [http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/health-committee/ Commons Select Committee: Health Committee],accessed 3 November 2010. </ref>
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==Membership==
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====2015====
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Dr [[Sarah Wollaston]], Conservative | [[Rosie Cooper]], Labour | [[Andrew George]], Conservative | [[Robert Jenrick]], Conservative | [[Barbara Keeley]], Labour | [[Charlotte Leslie]], Conservative | [[Grahame M. Morris]], Labour | [[Andrew Percy]]  | [[Viendra Sharma]] | [[David Tredinnick]], Conservative | [[Valerie Vaz]], Labour <ref> [http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/Health/Attendance-21-Jan-2015.pdf Health Committee] ''www.parliament.uk'', accessed 8 April 2015 </ref> [[Ben Bradshaw]], Labour | [[Julie Cooper]], Labour | [[Emma Reynolds]], Labour <ref>[https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/analysis/arrivals-moves-departures-latest-appointments-civil-service-politics-and-public-1 Dods people, 'Arrivals, moves, departures'], ''Civil Service World'', accessed 3 November 2015</ref>
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====2010====
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On 9 June 2010 [[Stephen Dorrell]] MP was elected Chair of the Health Committee. Ten more members were appointed on 12 July. On 2 November [[Fiona Mactaggart]] was discharged from the Committee and [[Fiona Fovargue]] appointed. <ref>House of Commons, [http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/health-committee/membership/ Health Committee – membership], accessed 4 November 2010. </ref>
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*[[Stephen Dorrell]] (Chair) Conservative
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*[[Rosie Cooper]] Labour
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*[[Nadine Dorries]] Conservative
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*[[Yvonne Fovargue]] Labour
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*[[Andrew George]] Liberal Democrat
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*[[Grahame Morris]] Labour
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*[[Virendra Sharma]] Labour
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*[[Chris Skidmore]] Conservative
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*[[David Tredinnick]] Conservative
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*[[Valerie Vaz]] Labour
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*Dr [[Sarah Wollaston]] Conservative
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==Obesity Inquiry==
  
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In 2003-2004 a Health select committee was established to undertake an inquiry into obesity.
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In 2003-2004 a Health [[Select committee]] was established to undertake an inquiry into obesity.
  
 
The MPs sitting on the committee at that time were:
 
The MPs sitting on the committee at that time were:
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* [[Sandra Gidley]] MP (Liberal Democrat, Romsey) Patron of [[The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust]]
 
* [[Sandra Gidley]] MP (Liberal Democrat, Romsey) Patron of [[The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust]]
  
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=== Special Advisers ===
  
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The special advisors to the inquiry on obesity were:
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The special advisers to the inquiry on obesity were:
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<ref> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmhealth/23/23.pdf House of Commons Health Committee Third Report Session 2003-2004 accessed 4 December 2007</ref>  
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<ref> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmhealth/23/23.pdf House of Commons Health Committee Third Report Session 2003-2004, 27 May 2004,accessed 4 December 2007</ref>  
  
 
* Dr [[Laurel Devina Edmunds]], Senior Researcher for the [[Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children]], University of Bristol. Director of [[The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust]]
 
* Dr [[Laurel Devina Edmunds]], Senior Researcher for the [[Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children]], University of Bristol. Director of [[The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust]]
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* Professor [[Ken Fox]], Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Bristol; Trustee of the [[British Nutrition Foundation]] Member of Department of Health Scientific Advisory Panel for Social Marketing in Childhood Obesity Project, 2006-7<ref> [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/enhs/people/ken-fox.html Ken Fox] accessed 4 December 2007 </ref>  
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* Professor [[Ken Fox]], Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Bristol. Scientific Governor and Trustee of the [[British Nutrition Foundation]]. Member of [[Department of Health]] Scientific Advisory Panel for Social Marketing in Childhood Obesity Project, 2006-7.  Senior Scientific Editor of the recent Chief Medical Officer's first report on physical activity and public health.  Served for 12 years on the [[Association for the Study of Obesity]] Executive Committee. Served on the [[Foresight Scientific Advisory Panel for  Obesity]]<ref> [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/enhs/people/ken-fox.html Ken Fox] accessed 10 December 2007 </ref> Was member of expert group alongside [[Carolyn Summerbell]] and [[Susan Jebb]], which in March 2007, produced Department of Health commissioned report on obesity issues. <ref> MRD Human Research Nutrition, Cambridge; Department of Health [http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_073044 The healthy living social marketing initiative: a review of the evidence] 12 March 2007, accessed 12 December </ref>
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* Professor [[Gerard Hastings]], Director, Centre for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Strathclyde
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* Professor [[Gerard Hastings]], former Director, Centre for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Strathclyde. Director of the Institute of Social Marketing, University of Stirling. Has acted as a Temporary Advisor to the [[World Health Organization]] on tobacco and alcohol marketing. Special Advisor to the House of Commons Health Select Committee during their enquiries into the tobacco and food industries.  He provides regular guidance on social and critical marketing to the Scottish, UK and European Parliaments. He has also acted as an expert witness in litigation against the tobacco industry.<ref>
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* Professor [[Phil James]], Director of the [[Rowett Research Institute]]  Aberdeen and Chair of the [[International Obesity Taskforce]]
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http://www.ism.stir.ac.uk/Gerard_Hastings.htm Institute for Social Marketing accessed 12 December 2007 </ref>
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Prior to the 1997 General Election in the UK, the Labour Party had proposed that a new structure should be developed for the control of food safety and the title “Food Standards Agency “ was used for this concept. On the 7th March 1997, the Tony Blair asked Professor Philip James to propose the structure and function of a Food Standards Agency. His interim proposals were completed on the 30th April 1997 and were presented to the new Prime Minister on the 8th May
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* Professor [[Philip James]], Director of the [[Rowett Research Institute]]  Aberdeen. Chair of the [[International Obesity Taskforce]]Prior to the 1997 General Election in the UK, the Labour Party had proposed that a new structure should be developed for the control of food safety and the title “[[Food Standards Agency]] “ was used for this concept. On the 7th March 1997, Tony Blair asked Professor Philip James to propose the structure and function of a Food Standards Agency.<ref> http://www.foodlaw.rdg.ac.uk/uk/AGENCY1A.HTM#1 Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Reading Website accessed 10 December 2007</ref> His interim proposals were completed on the 30th April 1997 and were presented to the new Prime Minister on the 8th May<ref> http://archive.food.gov.uk/maff/archive/food/james/cont.htm FSA Website accessed 10 December 2007</ref> Professor James was involved in the situation with Dr [[Arpad Pusztai]] where it was claimed he "gagged" Dr Pusztai over controversial research into GM.<ref> House of Commons [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmsctech/286/9030806.htm House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Minutes] 8 March 1999, accessed 12 December 2007 </ref>  
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<ref> http://archive.food.gov.uk/maff/archive/food/james/cont.htm accessed 10 December 207</ref>
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* Professor [[Tim Lang]], Professor of Food Policy, [[City University]] Tim Lang has been Professor of Food Policy at [[City University]] since November 2002. He was Director of the Centre for Food Policy at [[Thames Valley University]] from 1994 to 2002, before it moved to City University. He was Director of [[Parents for Safe Food]], 1990-1994 and before that Director of the [[London Food Commission]], 1984 to 1990.  He is a regular advisor / consultant to the [[World Health Organization]] at global and European levels. He has been a special advisor to four House of Commons Select Committee inquiries (food standards [twice], globalisation and obesity). In 2006-07, he was an advisor to the [[Foresight Obesity programme]], and since 2005 has been a member of the [[Royal Institute of International Affairs]] (Chatham House) ‘Food Supply in the 21st Century’ Working Party and team. In 2005-06, he chaired the Scottish NHS Executive’s Scottish Diet Action Plan Review. In 1999-2005 he was Chair of [[Sustain]], the NGO alliance, of which he was a founder member. He has been a Trustee of [[Friends of the Earth]] and was Secretary of the [[Public Health Alliance]], predecessor to the UK [[Public Health Association]].<ref> http://www.city.ac.uk/hmfp/foodpolicy/about/timlang.html City University Staff Website accessed 10 December 2007</ref>
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* Professor [[Tim Lang]], Professor of Food Policy, City University  
 
  
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Supplementary research was provided by:
 
Supplementary research was provided by:
 
* [[Liz Powell-Bullock]]
 
* [[Liz Powell-Bullock]]
 
* [[Adriana Rodriguez]]
 
* [[Adriana Rodriguez]]
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==Resources==
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See: [[The Corporate Capture of the NHS]]
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*Tamasin Cave, [http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/lobbying/item/5759-the-privatising-cabal-at-the-heart-of-our-nhs The privatising cabal at the heart of our NHS] ''Spinwatch'', 1 April 2015.
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 16:43, 3 November 2015

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The Health Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the policy, administration and expenditure, of the Department of Health and its associated bodies. [1]

Membership

2015

Dr Sarah Wollaston, Conservative | Rosie Cooper, Labour | Andrew George, Conservative | Robert Jenrick, Conservative | Barbara Keeley, Labour | Charlotte Leslie, Conservative | Grahame M. Morris, Labour | Andrew Percy | Viendra Sharma | David Tredinnick, Conservative | Valerie Vaz, Labour [2] Ben Bradshaw, Labour | Julie Cooper, Labour | Emma Reynolds, Labour [3]

2010

On 9 June 2010 Stephen Dorrell MP was elected Chair of the Health Committee. Ten more members were appointed on 12 July. On 2 November Fiona Mactaggart was discharged from the Committee and Fiona Fovargue appointed. [4]

Obesity Inquiry

In 2003-2004 a Health Select committee was established to undertake an inquiry into obesity.

The MPs sitting on the committee at that time were:

Special Advisers

The special advisers to the inquiry on obesity were: [5]


Supplementary research was provided by:

Resources

See: The Corporate Capture of the NHS

Notes

  1. ↑ House of Commons Commons Select Committee: Health Committee,accessed 3 November 2010.
  2. ↑ Health Committee www.parliament.uk, accessed 8 April 2015
  3. ↑ Dods people, 'Arrivals, moves, departures', Civil Service World, accessed 3 November 2015
  4. ↑ House of Commons, Health Committee – membership, accessed 4 November 2010.
  5. ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmhealth/23/23.pdf House of Commons Health Committee Third Report Session 2003-2004, 27 May 2004,accessed 4 December 2007
  6. ↑ Ken Fox accessed 10 December 2007
  7. ↑ MRD Human Research Nutrition, Cambridge; Department of Health The healthy living social marketing initiative: a review of the evidence 12 March 2007, accessed 12 December
  8. ↑ http://www.ism.stir.ac.uk/Gerard_Hastings.htm Institute for Social Marketing accessed 12 December 2007
  9. ↑ http://www.foodlaw.rdg.ac.uk/uk/AGENCY1A.HTM#1 Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Reading Website accessed 10 December 2007
  10. ↑ http://archive.food.gov.uk/maff/archive/food/james/cont.htm FSA Website accessed 10 December 2007
  11. ↑ House of Commons House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Minutes 8 March 1999, accessed 12 December 2007
  12. ↑ http://www.city.ac.uk/hmfp/foodpolicy/about/timlang.html City University Staff Website accessed 10 December 2007
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