She was responding to a cross-party amendment aimed at strengthening the health secretary's duties to promote public health via methods such as advertising campaigns as peers debated the Health and Social Care Bill on 16 November 2011, the sixth day of committee stage.
Irina Bokova was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage in Bali (Indonesia) today.