The noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, has set out the Obesity Crisis extremely well.

There needs to be a strong voice for children at the heart of the continuing debate on how to tackle the Obesity Crisis.

I hope that we will soon have the opportunity to debate the report further, but it is clear that there will be huge costs as a result of doing nothing to tackle this country's Obesity Crisis.

Clearly, conclusions from the Health Select Committee inquiry in another place have reinforced the need for an integrated and wide-ranging programme to tackle the Obesity Crisis that they describe.

It continued: "More than that, the committee has gravely damaged efforts to make Britain wake up to its Obesity Crisis".

Public opinion is with us, and people are waking up to the fact that the Obesity Crisis can be solved only by a balance of a better diet and more exercise.

We need to address a real problem: our youngsters face a Crisis of Obesity and if we do not tackle that robustly, we will make a big mistake.

For example, this afternoon it would stay light until six o'clock, giving many Members time to reach their constituencies in daylight - or perhaps to enjoy some of the healthy sporting activity that Ministers now recognise we need to encourage to tackle the growing Obesity Crisis.

As other noble Lords have said, the Obesity Crisis and the knock-on effects of that and other dietary inadequacies are getting even worse than they were a few years ago.

We face an Obesity Crisis in the country, which the Government have failed to stem; I do not blame them, but they have not succeeded.

Does he not accept that companies such as McDonald's ruthlessly and specifically target young children in order to force on them a diet that is wholly unhealthy and contributes considerably to the Obesity Crisis that the nation is currently experiencing?

” Charlie Powell, campaigns director of the Children's Food Campaign, said: “This is a deeply disappointing and utterly inadequate response which represents a squandered opportunity to address the UK's Obesity Crisis.

We are in an Obesity Crisis.

Let us see the evidence of whether a nudge is going to prevent us from facing a Major Obesity Crisis by 2020 that is even greater than the one that we already have, or whether a fat tax is the only way that we are going to get there.

When we, as a nation, should be investing in physical activity to alleviate the Obesity Crisis, the Government are instead doing the opposite.

Many have outlined the fact that we have an Obesity Crisis, and a great deal more work needs to be done on that.

This proposal will set a precedent for other products, such as alcohol, sweets and products containing sugar, and fatty foods that are causing an Obesity Crisis which is costing the health service even more than smoking.

I hope that the Minister will respond to that and outline specifically what her Department is doing to tackle the Obesity Crisis in order to reduce cancer prevalence, because so many cancers are connected to obesity.

It would help to tackle the Obesity Crisis.

We have a radical programme to improve public health, which is the biggest long-term challenge we face, by helping people to do more to help themselves: setting limits on sugar, salt and fat in food marketed to children; improving food labelling to tackle the Impending Obesity Crisis; and taking tough action on tobacco, which this Government have abjectly failed to do.

1, encouraging the Government to tackle the Obesity Crisis in this country, and early-day motion No.

It is vital that the money raised through such a tax is ring-fenced to tackle the Obesity Crisis in children.

What are the Government doing to address the educational and environmental factors that are causing This Obesity Crisis?

Although I support those measures, I want quickly to discuss how school food can play a significant role in addressing the Obesity Crisis facing our children today.

All those measures came out of concerns for the health of our children and the growing Obesity Crisis, especially given that 57% of children were not eating school lunches.

If we do nothing, the Obesity Crisis will get much worse.

As we have been hearing all afternoon, we are facing a Crisis of Obesity among our children.

Particularly affected will be treatments for drug and alcohol abuse and work to tackle the country's Obesity Crisis and to prevent sexually transmitted infections.

I urge drinks manufacturers to step up to the mark and play their part in tackling the Obesity Crisis by reformulating drinks and recipes over the next two years to reduce added sugars.

We have an Obesity Crisis in my constituency and problems of diabetes and amputations.

His work has been to do with the growing amount of evidence that the destruction of our gut bacteria by processed foods is the real enemy and could be behind the Obesity Crisis.

The scale and enormity of the Obesity Crisis facing the UK and the rest of the world has been underlined, and it is clear that the Government's long-awaited strategy, particularly in respect of providing clarity over dietary guidance, is desperately needed.