Results 1-14 of 14 for smoking speaker:Tim Boswell

Public Bill Committee: Child Maintenance and Other Payments: Clause 16 (9 Oct 2007)

Tim Boswell: ...is to collect taxes, along the way it has become the expert in the assessment of income and the avoidance of Spanish practices to disguise income? It is important that it should be in the lead in smoking out people who seek to conceal their real situation.

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 17 (31 Oct 2006)

Tim Boswell: ...with the claimant are bad or, to be honest, if the official has a bee in their bonnet. It would be arguable, although I would think not in this Committee, that somebody with a condition induced by smoking or the misuse of drugs such as cannabis might well have a psychotic condition that has resulted in their limited capacity for work. We can all take different views about the balance...

Health and Safety Commission and Executive (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...advice. Following on from that, it would be helpful if the Minister could, either now or in due course, say something about Artex as a particular product. I shall say a few words about workplace smoking, because the Government's document "Choosing Health: making healthier choices easier" may have exposed a potential illogicality that they will have to consider or explain. With regard to...

Public Bill Committee: Mental Capacity Bill: Clause 37 - Duty of local authority to seek advice before providing accommodation (4 Nov 2004)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...and Honiton, have rightly drawn the Committee's attention to the fact that even the existing framework of statutory duties is not always discharged as it should be. The amendment is designed to smoke out the local authority's reasoning and—consistent with other amendments I have tabled on this subject—to provide a proper audit trail for its decision. It would prevent a...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 23 - Condition that may be required to be imposed by English funding bodies (2 Mar 2004)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...it, Mr. Hood. It is designed to probe the Government on how the legislation will work. If we must spend time on such matters, it will be time well spent. My second confession has already been smoked out by the Minister in a response to an amendment that I tabled to clause 22. He went slightly further than my intention and suggested that I had in my mind a scenario where a higher...

Public Bill Committee: Higher Education Bill: Clause 22 - Power of Secretary of State to impose condition as to student fees, etc. (24 Feb 2004)

Mr Tim Boswell: .... The principle of amendment No. 259 is that it would add to the number of funding bodies that might impose such conditions. Although I was genuinely trying to help the Minister, if only by smoking out what was intended, I do not think that we need an extra body. As he said, if we did, we could legislate for it as part of the primary legislation. Therefore, applying—as mediaeval...

Public Bill Committee: State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 - Guarantee Credit (16 Apr 2002)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...under clause stand part. Rather than trying to ask them now, I shall restrict myself to our amendment and that of the hon. Member for Northavon. Amendment No. 14 has two purposes. The first is to smoke out from the explanatory notes whether prescribed amounts should be confined to hospital downrating. It would be useful to have the Under-Secretary's assurance that it is. If she is...

Poverty (London) (12 Feb 2002)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...boundaries. Crime blights everyone. The disadvantaged and socially excluded are probably as blighted, if not more so, than others—for example, when hard-earned family transport goes up in smoke. Young families and older people can feel trapped in poor surroundings with a diminished quality of life and little chance to join the economic world. All those factors feed into problems with...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Employment: Further Education (6 Jul 2000)

Mr Tim Boswell: Although any increase in funding is welcome—provided that it is a real increase, not a smoke-and-mirrors type of increase—there is still concern in further education colleges because they cannot pay lecturers competitive rates, particularly in market-related sectors such as business and computing. It is extremely difficult for them to recruit and deliver in those areas. Can the...

Orders of the Day — Wireless Telegraphy Bill [Lords]: Access to Information (11 Mar 1998)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...in a knee-jerk way, but to find selected points of concern, to probe the Government and to seek a response from them. To some extent, a response has been supplied. If nothing else, the debate has smoked out—or brought over the ether—an important announcement by the Minister on the membership of her new spectrum management advisory group. Although I do not know the gentleman...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (10 Jul 1997)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...at £47 a month, but we must add the cost of second-round consequences, including the impact of pension changes on local authority pension costs and perhaps a couple of pounds a week for petrol. Even if he does not drink or smoke, he will then be paying an extra £50 a month or thereabouts. That does not look well, indeed it looks particularly bad for a Government who have pledged...

Bill Presented: Eastern Europe (1 Dec 1989)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...great problem. Pollution is confined by no national boundaries. In their own interests, instead of concentrating on the economic use of their resources, and spending so much extra on reducing their smoke stack emissions by 2 per cent. or 5 per cent.—desirable as that may be—western countries should consider ways in which they can give practical help with the awful problems in...

Egg Industry (7 Mar 1989)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...change in risk is not some objective shift but rather the amount of media coverage that the risk is given. It suits us that matters within our own control—such as whether or not we choose to smoke—do not get quite the prominence of matters in respect of which we can feel that someone else is to blame. In a sense, that is perfectly reasonable. I do not see why people should...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Home Accidents (13 Jan 1988)

Mr Tim Boswell: ...my hon. Friend re-emphasise the importance of starting safety education at school and, at adult level, reminding people of the availability of cheap, effective devices, such as stair guards and smoke detectors, which are now readily available and realistically priced?