Results 1-17 of 17 for smoking speaker:Graham Allen

Business of the House: Whitsun Adjournment (21 May 2009) has video

Graham Allen: ...is the largest department of state, and we should not disown what goes on by saying, "This is just the Whips." We should be clear that they express the Government's view, and that needs to be smoked out as such.

[Hywel Williams in the Chair] — Stroke Sufferers (18 Nov 2008)

Graham Allen: ...in my next couple of paragraphs. More than 40 per cent. of all strokes could be prevented if people kept their blood pressure under control, monitored cholesterol levels, ate healthily, stopped smoking, and took regular exercise. I am not yet on to awareness; I am talking about prevention. The Government have introduced a programme of vascular checks for 40 to 74-year-olds, which I would...

[Janet Anderson in the Chair] — Anti-Drug Awareness (7 Oct 2008)

Graham Allen: .... However, I should like to reassure my hon. Friend that in pursuing an early-intervention package, One Nottingham funds several anti-tobacco initiatives, including efforts to prevent people from smoking. I have some notes on the alcohol part of the drug and alcohol awareness strategy, but I have had to skip over them rather quickly. However, both those addictive substances are definitely...

Football Players (Behaviour) (18 Apr 2006)

Graham Allen: ..., and all funds go back into the game, one idea suggested was that the players' fines should go to the FA, and be more obviously put into a "community chest" to educate players about drinking, smoking, social responsibility and so on. Sponsors, too, can play an important part; they have a clear interest in associating their products with high standards of behaviour from the players who...

Nottingham, North (Regeneration) (8 Sep 2004)

Mr Graham Allen: ...formula in the NHS gives wealthy Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire £8 million too much and the deprived city of Nottingham £7 million too little. That cannot be balanced by spending the odd few grand on smoking campaigns, healthy eating or photo opportunities for local MPs. As with many of the other themes that I have outlined, what is needed in sustainable funding is a lot more...

Prime Minister (Direct Election) (11 May 2004)

Mr Graham Allen: ...last great extension of the franchise—would symbolise our democratic maturity, convert our Parliament from an electoral college into a legislature and legalise an Executive currently built on smoke and mirrors. Stop me if you have heard this before, Mr. Speaker, but the prime ministership over many decades has evolved into an accidental presidency. The result is a dysfunctional...

Second Chamber (25 Feb 2004)

Mr Graham Allen: ...that are not yet on the cards, so I shall focus on current powers and purpose until we get the one small step forward on the composition of the second Chamber. Other issues will then start to be smoked out. They will be dealt with by a process of reconciliation between the second Chamber, ourselves, and the Government. That is how a proper democracy should operate. I am deliberately...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 - Condition that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies (24 Feb 2004)

Mr Graham Allen: My amendment will help those youngsters, so I shall explain it carefully. That is why we have a Committee stage—to smoke these things out. The youngsters who currently are on very low incomes do not pay fees up front, as my hon. Friend rightly points out. The up-front fee does not apply to them. However, my youngsters in that category are not avoiding university in order not to pay...

Schools (Attendance and Behaviour) (20 Jan 2004)

Mr Graham Allen: ...retired, go into a school on 12 consecutive Fridays to teach the kids—by various means, including resisting peer pressure such as bullying—how to say no not only to drugs, but to smoking and drinking. That process also helps many of those children to make better educational advances as a result of the confidence that it gives them.

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 145 - Pre-sentence drug testing (6 Feb 2003)

Mr Graham Allen: ...not detain the Committee by rehearsing the arguments. If someone is arrested and tried and is awaiting sentence, the age of 10 is appropriate for offenders who will be on class A drugs. This is not smoking behind the bike sheds in a ''Just William'' story; this is people whose life will be completely wrecked. We are talking about people who engage in criminality, probably for the rest of...

Adjournment (Christmas) (19 Dec 2001)

Mr Graham Allen: ...the details, but I shall simply ask my hon. Friend to let me know how the Government will tackle the differentials between social classes and ethnic backgrounds. Blood pressure is another factor, as is smoking, yet although those factors are taken into account with heart disease and cancer, with strokes they are often not taken into account. Will my hon. Friend therefore discover whether...

Flood Prevention and Land Drainage (Scotland) Bill: Drug Abuse Resistance Education (Nottinghamshire) (26 Feb 1997)

Mr Graham Allen: ..., to make decisions and choices, instead of having those decisions and choices forced on them. That is what DARE brings to the equation and its approach is applicable to drugs, drink and cigarette smoking. It is also applicable to many other areas, and it is an important part of the social education of young people. It is worth repeating that DARE' s impact goes well beyond its effect on...

Flood Prevention and Land Drainage (Scotland) Bill: Drug Abuse Resistance Education (Nottinghamshire) (26 Feb 1997)

Mr Graham Allen: ...occasionally the courage to resist when some in their peer group—their fellow pupils, for example—are making lots of different and ingenious offers to get them started on the road of smoking, drinking or drug abuse. Children carry that personal inoculation with them, as many of us did from our parents, by drawing in those values and making their own assessment. That is the best...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Bus Fuel (10 Jun 1996)

Mr Graham Allen: ...also concede that a state of the art clean and green bus can cost almost £100,000? Will he admit that it is less likely that bus operators will invest in such vehicles if a charabanc belching black smoke can intercept their route, arrive perhaps one minute ahead and undercut them in price? Will the Government introduce proposals to ensure stability in the industry, particularly by...

Orders of the Day — Air Quality (Nottingham) (19 Apr 1996)

Mr Graham Allen: ...originally thought adversely affect health. Much good work has been done in this area in Nottingham and elsewhere, dating back to the 1950s. The most obvious pollutants have been dealt with: the smoke and sulphur dioxide created by coal burning and factory emissions have been subject to ever greater controls. However, the main air pollution villain in modern Britain, including in my...

Orders of the Day — Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Bill: Payments from the Independent Living Fund (7 Feb 1991)

Mr Graham Allen: ...about the future of the ILF. 4.45 pm We all know that the deeds that created the charity—the ILF—expire on 8 June 1993. If the new clause does nothing else, I hope that it will smoke out the Government and give them the opportunity to make clear the future of the ILF and, above all, the future of those people who desperately need it or whatever takes its place. We hope that...

Furniture (Fire Resistance) (29 Jun 1988)

Mr Graham Allen: The Minister may be aware that I and the Nottinghamshire fire prevention panel and fire officers in Nottinghamshire have written to the Government requesting a serious national programme for smoke detectors in homes—both in new-build local authority housing and in new private developments. It is not good enough for the Minister to say that that is somebody else's responsibility. Will he...