Due to the growing number of overweight people is putting a strain on the health care system. Some people think that the best way to deal with this problem is to introduce more physical education lessons in school curriculum. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Many companies are now less prepared for a no-deal

Brexit

than they were a year ago and have yet to make any

preparations

for

such

an outcome, ministers are being warned.

As a result

of the

coronavirus

crisis, stockpiles have been wound down,

Brexit

-related staff redeployed and cashflows seriously depleted. Yet a potential no-deal outcome is now less than six months away. The latest warning comes from the Institute for Government thinktank, which

also

cites official data suggesting that 61% of businesses have made no

preparations

at all for the end of the

Brexit

transition

period

on 31 December. It

also

warns that

last

-minute

preparations

will be extremely difficult for many sectors, as

coronavirus

-related government support is wound down and potential for stockpiling is diminished as warehouses fill up ahead of Christmas. Many firms have eaten into ‘rainy day’ cash reserves just to stay afloat – money that could

otherwise

have been used to prepare for

Brexit

Institute for Government report “The

coronavirus

crisis has not only held up progress on

Brexit

preparations

but, in some areas, has actually set businesses back,” it warns in a new report. “Firms reeling from the economic consequences of

coronavirus

are poorly placed to prepare for

Brexit

: in many cases, they’re in a worse position than in the months leading up to the potential no-deal in October 2019. As the government’s own data shows, the majority of firms have not even begun to prepare. “Many businesses and public bodies have run down stockpiles built up ahead of a potential no-deal

Brexit

last

year, either because it was not economically viable to maintain excess supplies or to mitigate the disruption caused by gaps and delays in supply chains caused by the

coronavirus

. Many firms have eaten into ‘rainy day’ cash reserves just to stay afloat – money that could

otherwise

have been used to prepare for

Brexit

.” Ministers recently conceded that many checks for goods coming into Britain would not be enforced when the

transition

period

comes to an end, despite a previous insistence that controls would be in place.

However

, ministers have continued to stress that there will be no extension of the

transition

period

. There are now mounting calls for sector-specific help ahead of the end of the

transition

period

. The cost of extra customs declarations could be as much as £7bn a year,

according to

some estimates.