Results 1-20 of 25 for smoking speaker:Alan Beith

Orders of the Day: Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (8 Oct 2007)

Alan Beith: ...remember. The prison officers asked how it was that they, who were carrying out their jobs on behalf of our society, were almost the only public servants who were not protected from the effects of smoke inhalation when going about their work. Prisoners are allowed to smoke in their cells and, as the Minister observed, in some cases that involves groups of cells and other areas in which...

Fisheries (9 Dec 2003)

Mr Alan Beith: ...To return to the point about herring, which he discussed with the hon. Member for Waveney (Mr. Blizzard), surely the key to the herring market is processing, whether it involves Craster kippers or smoked herring. What we have seen in the herring market could happen again with cod, because if the processing and marketing mechanisms collapse, as they nearly did during a period when fishing...

Global Terrorism/Iraq (21 Jan 2003)

Mr Alan Beith: ...Saddam Hussein of his weapons of mass destruction does not depend on and is not helped by an attempt to establish a link with al-Qaeda and other terrorist forces, replacing the search for the smoking gun with the search for the missing link? Surely the assembly of rogue states, failed states and proliferating states that pose a short-term and long-term threat in the assistance that they...

Orders of the Day — Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Bill [Lords] (15 Apr 1999)

Mr Alan Beith: ...and would never have been made public but for the charge of which the defendant is acquitted. Even when the whole story is found to be false, people suffer from the claim that there is no smoke without fire. We have all heard that statement made, often in very unjust and inappropriate circumstances. This is not a theoretical argument. Some individuals have committed or attempted suicide...

Orders of the Day — HMS Glorious (28 Jan 1999)

Mr Alan Beith: On the afternoon of 8 June 1940, two German battle cruisers, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, sighted a wisp of smoke on the arctic horizon. Two hours later, the carrier HMS Glorious and her two escorting destroyers, Ardent and Acasta, had been sunk. More than 1,500 lives were lost, qualifying the incident as one of the worst naval disasters of the second world war. I have no direct personal link...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Smoking (15 Jan 1996)

Mr Alan Beith: The policy on smoking in offices of hon. Members and their staff is a matter for the Administration Committee, not the Commission. The Commission's policy, promulgated through the heads of Departments, is directed at discouraging smoking by its employees. It is left to individual heads of Departments to make arrangements by mutual agreement with staff for the restriction of smoking in...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Smoking (15 Jan 1996)

Mr Alan Beith: I do not think that it is right for people in their working environment to be forced to inhale smoke from other people. The Commission has not been notified of any case in which members of its staff are required to work in environments where smoking takes place. If there is an example, I would be grateful if the hon. Lady would draw it to my attention.

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Smoking (15 Jan 1996)

Mr Alan Beith: My understanding is that in the Departments of the House members of staff do not inflict smoking on others, and where other occupants of an office are non-smokers, or simply prefer people not to smoke in the office, those smokers do not smoke there and seek suitable places to do so.

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Health Awareness (20 Feb 1995)

Mr Alan Beith: ...has mainly been to its staff. A number of initiatives have been taken for staff health and safety, including measures to deal with back injuries and to promote awareness of the dangers of smoking.

Orders of the Day — Licensing (Sunday Hours) Bill (15 Feb 1995)

Mr Alan Beith: ...account the appropriate conditions for a children's certificate, they have regard to whether conditions in a room pose a danger to children's health. Now that we know the consequences of passive smoking, that would be the case. I insist that the Liberal Democrat party regards this matter as a free-vote issue, as do the other parties. Hon. Members will no doubt have different views about...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Smoking (21 Feb 1994)

Mr Alan Beith: In addition to questions from hon. Members, representations have been made by the trade unions. Although no specific assessment of the effects of smoking on individuals has been made, the House authorities are aware of the statutory requirements in that respect and of recent reports on the subject. The Accommodation and Works Committee recently considered a fire action plan, which includes a...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Smoking (14 Jun 1993)

Mr Alan Beith: By long-established practice, there are certain parts of the House where smoking is not permitted, such as the Chamber, the Members' Lobby and part of the Tea Room. The Administration, Accommodation and Works and Catering Committees, and the Board of Management, have responsibility to determine whether any changes need to be made in areas for which they are responsible.

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Smoking (14 Jun 1993)

Mr Alan Beith: I am aware of all those matters. If it were left to me, smoking would be confined to a small area on the roof. The areas for which the Commission is responsible are those in which employees of the House work. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for drawing the matter to the Commission's attention, and it will be placed on the agenda. Hon. Members generally have a responsibility to the staff...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons Commission: Smoking (4 Mar 1991)

Mr Alan Beith: No-smoking areas have already been established in the Department of the Library. Their designation in other areas occupied solely by staff employed by the House of Commons Commission is a matter for individual heads of department, who are understood to be willing to establish no-smoking areas where accommodation will allow and where there is evidence of sufficient demand. The co-ordination of...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons Commission: Smoking (4 Mar 1991)

Mr Alan Beith: These are clearly matters for the Services Committee. I have long used the section of the Tea Room which I understood to be a no-smoking area.

Prayers: Export Trade (22 Jun 1990)

Mr Alan Beith: ...markets open. When the hon. Member for Erith and Crayford referred to salmon, I hope that he was not challenging Berwick's role as England's salmon capital, exporting wild salmon—both as smoked salmon and in other products—throughout the world. In the area that I represent there are great export commitments. Trade figures have been depressing in recent months; the one...

Orders of the Day — Environmental Protection Bill: Burning of Straw and Stubble etc. (2 May 1990)

Mr Alan Beith: ...end, but fires started in the course of agricultural or forestry operations often spread. Last summer, we had fires that caused serious danger to road traffic. There was a fire that caused serious smoke over the A1 not far south of Berwick for a long time. It is extremely dangerous if smoke billows across a busy road, often unexpectedly because of a change in wind direction. There is...

Business of the House (21 Feb 1990)

Mr Alan Beith: ...have access to that mechanism, while no other hon. Member has access to it in any circumstances? It is like an addict preaching abstinence. It is like a 20-a-day or 60-a-day man saying, "Don't smoke." Every day the Order Paper contains Government motions to vary the effect of Standing Orders. Often they are resisted, but frequently they are allowed through because they have become part of...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Relief (9 May 1989)

Mr Alan Beith: ...those Members of Parliament who take the closest and most careful interest in the National Health Service. It did not come from the Treasury Ministers who have to defend these clauses today. All the smoke signals from the Treasury were that Treasury Ministers were strongly opposed to the use of tax relief to encourage private health insurance and would regard it as a departure from their...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (16 Mar 1988)

Mr Alan Beith: ...is absolutely overwhelming — he has done nothing about his pre-election sweetener of not making inflation increases. Therefore, he is totally failing to respond to the concern of those who have to face up to the problems of smoking and health. Similarly, the right hon. Gentleman has not taken any measures to deal with the failure to increase alcohol duties last year. He has made no...