Results 1-12 of 12 for smoking speaker:Mr Paul Boateng

Written Answers — Treasury: Smoking-related Illness (24 Jun 2004)

Mr Paul Boateng: The White Paper Smoking Kills (1998) estimated the cost to the NHS of treating ill-health caused by smoking was £1.7 billion a year.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (23 Mar 2004)

Mr Paul Boateng: ... An amount equal to 22 per cent of the retail price plus £99.80 per thousand cigarettes. 2. Cigars £145.35 per kilogram. 3. Hand-rolling tobacco £104.47 per kilogram. 4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco £63.90 per kilogram. (2) This Resolution shall have effect as from 6 o'clock in the evening of 17th March 2004. And it is hereby declared that...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 1 - Rates of tobacco products duty (14 May 2002)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...a useful piece of work, if it could be done at reasonable cost. We know from other research, as I recall from my time in the Department of Health, that young women, in particular, are taking up smoking much faster than young men. We do not know why. It will not be enough for the hon. Member for Christchurch to say, ''It's all down to a Labour Government'', and I am sure that even he would...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 1 - Rates of tobacco products duty (14 May 2002)

Mr Paul Boateng: ... is the level of intellectual engagement with the Finance Bill that we shall have to tolerate in the weeks ahead. On reflection, the hon. Gentleman might want to revisit that argument. Why people smoke, why they give up smoking and why people's inhibitions over breaking the law when it comes to cheating the Excise are, perhaps, lower than in other areas of law-breaking are interesting...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 1 - Rates of tobacco products duty (14 May 2002)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...you, who have wrestled with the best of them, will be able to keep us all under control. I do not think that such refereeing will be necessary in relation to clause 1. It is an innocuous clause. Smoking is the single largest cause of preventable illness and premature death in the United Kingdom, killing about 120,000 people every year. Research has consistently shown that the price of...

Written Answers — Treasury: Crime Prevention Devices (VAT) (9 Jul 2001)

Mr Paul Boateng: ... 4 July 2001 In Budget 2000, the Government reduced the rate of VAT to 5 per cent. on the grant-funded supply and installation of window and door locks, bolts and security chains, spy holes and smoke alarms in homes of those aged over 60 who are in receipt of specified benefits. The reduced rate was targeted at these grant-funded supplies to ensure that extra help goes where it is most...

New Clause 1: Defence Under Section 8 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (12 Jun 2000)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...permit certain specified actions to take place there: the production or attempted production of a controlled drug; the supply or attempted supply of a controlled drug; the preparation of opium for smoking; and the smoking of cannabis.

New Clause 1: Defence Under Section 8 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (12 Jun 2000)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...having drugs on the premises. If you use drugs on the premises, you are out", and we enforce that. We are required to ensure that the youth club is managed in such a way that, if people are caught smoking on the premises, we tell them to leave and they do so. If they do not, we may well have to call the police. No one who takes that line in relation to the management of premises will find...

Orders of the Day — Prostate Cancer Screening (12 May 1998)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...remains second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer deaths in men. Unfortunately, as he recognises, there is no clear evidence about its causes. Unlike with lung cancer, where we know that smoking greatly increases the risk, we cannot advise men of ways in which they can reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer. Given the circumstances, it is understandable that there should be...

Cannabis (14 Jan 1998)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...subjects. Therefore, no firm conclusions could be reached. In fact, the BMA report recognises that cannabis is not the risk-free option that many people suppose. That is particularly true if it is smoked. Cannabis smoke contains all the toxic elements of tobacco smoke, apart from nicotine. We must take account of the potential risks associated with short and long-term use of cannabis in...

Orders of the Day — Sunday Trading Bill: Discrimination Against Prospective Employees Who Object to Sunday Working (9 Feb 1994)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...no regulation whatever of the retail or any other trade and last night he went through the Lobby with enthusiasm to vote for deregulating trading on every other day of the week. When the amendment smokes such people out, the real agenda of all too many proponents of the Bill becomes clear. It is to enable those who control the retail trade to be able to pick and choose who they employ. It...

King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report) (12 Apr 1989)

Mr Paul Boateng: ...in London's Underground that is outside the public domain, all they have said counts for nothing. The circular gives details of the arrangements for the inspection of escalators for fire and smoke. Paragraph El2 says: The escalators shown below must be inspected every two hours for signs of fire or smoke. This is because they do not meet a necessary standard of cleanliness. I see that the...