Results 1-13 of 13 for smoking speaker:Tony Baldry

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Manning Levels (26 Mar 2007)

Tony Baldry: ...year in the usual way. So how can men and women in the armed forces trust what the Government say, when even on something as fundamental as forces' funding the Chancellor of the Exchequer is playing smoke and mirrors?

Community Railways (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Tony Baldry: Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the reasons why none of us trust the proposals is that they represent a classic smoke-and-mirrors effort by the Government to shift the subsidy that they have been giving to community rail lines on to local authorities, without giving those authorities any extra money? The case is made—no one can trust the Government on this issue because they...

Prayers: Fishing Communities (Northumberland) (20 Mar 1996)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...is required and produce added-value products. Projects aided by previous EC schemes include nephrops processing facilities, refrigeration and cold storage facilities, the upgrading of salmon and mackerel smoking facilities and even, I am told, the installation of herring sexing machines. The EC ports scheme will enable ports to improve their facilities for the fishing industry by providing...

Estimates 1993–94: Air Pollution (10 Jun 1993)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...about £4 million a year on monitoring and co-ordinating monitoring of air pollutants. We have contracted a number of research bodies, many with international reputations. Sulphur dioxide and smoke are monitored at 278 sites in the country. Nitrogen dioxide is monitored at more than 1,000 sites. In 1990, we undertook to expand the coverage and scope of air pollution monitoring in...

Prayers: The Gulf (Ecology) (15 Mar 1991)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...Maritime Organisation. My hon. Friend the Member for Gravesham (Mr. Arnold) sensibly observed that the two main challenges are the consequences of the oil slick and the consequences of the smoke plume over the Gulf region. My hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Hughes) underlined the scale of the challenge of the burning oil wells. The first manifestation of Saddam Hussein's...

Prayers: The Gulf (Ecology) (15 Mar 1991)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...prepared a plan for detailed assessment of the ecological damage to coastal habitats caused by the oil slick. I want now to consider the problems generated by the burning of Kuwaiti oil wells and the Smoke plume. Here again, we are dealing with an appalling act of economic and environmental sabotage. Several hundred oil well fires—possibly as many as 700—were started, in most...

Prayers: The Gulf (Ecology) (15 Mar 1991)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...days, the best scientific advice is that the plume is thought to be unlikely to have reached the stratosphere in significant amounts, save occasionally as the result of thunderstorms. Most of the smoke will stay within a few kilometres of the atmosphere. When one is flying around the Gulf, one flies above the worst of the smoke plume. Our view remains that we are not facing a serious...

Prayers: The Gulf (Ecology) (15 Mar 1991)

Mr Tony Baldry: I think that the hon. Gentleman misunderstood my point. There has been understandable worry about whether the impact of the smoke plume will have an effect on the global atmosphere and global temperatures. My point is reinforced by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. The best advice that we have to date is that the smoke plume is unlikely to have a global impact, although no...

Prayers: The Gulf (Ecology) (15 Mar 1991)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...low. Dioxins are less likely to be involved, as crude oil does not normally contain halogens in any quantity. This, however, still needs to be confirmed on the ground. Clearly, in periods of heavy smoke pollution, the best thing for people to do is to stay indoors as much as possible. That is particularly important for babies, young children and people with respiratory disorders. Anyone...

Prayers: The Gulf (Ecology) (15 Mar 1991)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...can assist is by targeting United Kingdom science on those problems and offering our expertise to the Gulf states. As I said, science can help directly in monitoring the scale of the damage from smoke plumes, oil slicks and hazardous material, in using computer models to predict how it will spread and in advising on its likely consequences for human health, agriculture and all aspects of...

Drug Abuse (9 Jun 1989)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...seek proper help and support. There are 100,000 heroin addicts in this country. More alarming still is the increasing level of violence associated with the dealing in and use of crack. Those who smoke it are said to experience a feeling of omnipotence and paranoia which, in the United States, has led to an increasing number of shootings of police officers as well as other crimes of...

Drug Abuse (9 Jun 1989)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...the Home Secretary has referred to crack as a plague. It is perhaps worth reminding ourselves of the lines written at the time of the black death: We see death coming into our midst like black smoke, a plague which cuts off the young and has no mercy". That is certainly the effect of crack. It is a plague which cuts off the young and has no mercy. The drug has spread like a plague across...

Prevention of Intimidatory Picketing (4 Jul 1984)

Mr Tony Baldry: ...is in progress. One does not need more than six people to make it clear that a strike is on and that a picket line exists. When one starts to get way in excess of six pickets and stones, bottles, smoke bombs and other missiles are thrown at people who want to go to work, the only reasonable inference is that people are there not peacefully to persuade, but to bully, threaten and intimidate...