Joint Parliamentary inquiry into food security: February - May 2009
The Forum took part in a joint Parliamentary inquiry into food security with the Parliamentary Scientific Committee and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development. The inquiry was chaired by our former Vice-Chairman, Dr Ian Gibson MP, who is the Chairman of the APPG Agriculture and Food for Development.
The inquiry report, Why No Thought for Food?, was published on 27 January 2010.
Members of FHF on the Inquiry team
- Lord Rea
- Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen
- Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer
The following meetings were held
The following meetings were held:
- 25 February 2009 [minutes]
- 11 March 2009 [minutes]
- 25 March 2009 [minutes]
- 1 April 2009 [minutes]
- 21 May 2009, witnesses: Jane Kennedy MP, Minster for Farming and the Environment and Ivan Lewis, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at DFID[minutes]
The call for evidence can be downloaded here.
FHF Inquiry into the links between diet and behaviour
The Food and Health Forum launched the report on 30 January 2008, at a very well attended meeting in Parliament. Publication of the report followed careful consideration of oral and written evidence submitted to the FHF inquiry team between February and October 2007. Parliamentarians, FHF members and journalists discussed the report’s conclusions and recommendations with the inquiry team and learnt about the next steps which will be taken. The report is being sent to relevant Government Ministers and Shadow Spokesmen as well as other organisations, such as the Food Standards Agency, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the General Medical Council, where recommendations are made which are relevant to their work.
The report is available for download from here.
An accompanying press release can be downloaded here.
A series of meetings were held from March to October 2007 at which guest speakers talked about different aspects of this complex subject. The programme of speakers is set out below.
The “call for evidence” is available here.
Please note that slides may not be used or reproduced without the express permission of the author.
Inquiry meeting - 25 October
Location: House of Commons Jubilee Room
Speakers:
- Professor Alan Jackson, Director of the Southampton University Institute of Public Nutrition and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN)
- Dr Alan Dangour, senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and principal investigator of the OPAL study.
Documents:
Inquiry meeting - 23 May
Location: House of Lords Committee Room G
Speakers:
- Dr Gemma Harper, National Offender Management Service and Sara Kahner, HMPS Women and Young People’s Group
- Professor Andrew Scholey, Northumbria University
- Professor Jack Winkler, London Metropolitan University
Documents:
Inquiry meeting - 9 May
Location: House of Lords Committee Room G
Speakers:
- Professor John Stein, University of Oxford
- Professor Malcolm Peet , Rotherham Primary Care Trust
- Dr Malcolm Garland, Galway University Hospital and the Clinical Sciences Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
Documents:
- Dr Garland’s presentation – 9 May 2007
- Minutes – FHF diet and behaviour meeting on 9 May
- Professor Peet’s presentation – 9 May 2007
Inquiry meeting - 25 April
Location: House of Lords Committee Room G
Speakers:
- Professor Neil Ward, Surrrey University and Director of the Hyperactive Children’s Support Group
- Lord Ramsbotham, former Chief Inspector of Prisons and Chairman of Natural Justice
- Bernard Gesch, Oxford University and Director of Natural Justice
- Courtney Van de Weyer, Sustain
Documents:
Inquiry meeting - 18 April
Location: House of Lords Committee Room G
Speakers:
- Professor Carolyn Summerbell, Teeside University
- Professor David Benton, Swansea University
- Mrs Valerie Moore, Eaton Hall School Norfolk
- Dr Jackie Stordy and Mr Andrew Thomas, The Cotswold Community School
Documents:
- Minutes – FHF inquiry meeting on 18 April 2007
- Professor Benton’s presentation for FHF – April 2007
- Professor Summerbell presentation to the FHF inquiry – April 2007
Inquiry meeting - 28 March
Location: House of Lords Committee Room 3a
Speakers:
- Professor Michael Crawford, London Metropolitan University
- Dr Alex Richardson, Oxford University and Director of Food and Behaviour Research
- Commander Joseph Hibbeln, National Institutes of Health, Washington and adviser to the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as ‘Children of the 90s’
Documents: