Results 1-11 of 11 for smoking speaker:Tom Brake

Public Bill Committee: Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill: Schedule 6 (8 Mar 2007)

Tom Brake: I have looked carefully at the schedule, and I believe that there is an omission relating to the powers of the Department for Transport covering smoking in Eldon Garden.

Public Bill Committee: Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill: Clause 97 (27 Feb 2007)

Tom Brake: ...supplied with a helpful briefing by the Local Government Association, which sets out a very good reason why it matters. Newcastle city council has been unable to get confirmation of a byelaw to ban smoking in a particular public place from the Department of Transport. The council made a byelaw application under section 35 of the Highways Act 1980 to ban smoking in Eldon Garden, which I am...

Point of Order: Local Government Finance (31 Jan 2007)

Tom Brake: ...way, I accept—a barrage of statistics that has served only to obscure the important issues involved in this debate. The Minister promised clarity and transparency; instead he has provided smoke and mirrors, and the debate has been the poorer for that.

Transport (23 Jun 2003)

Mr Tom Brake: ...of dispute that will arise in such a contractual set-up. On 11 April, there was a dispute between Metronet and Tubelines about who was to blame for delayed trains when glue caught fire and generated smoke, causing a fire alert. I suspect that that is the first of many hundreds of disputes that will arise as a result of the policy of PPP and fragmentation.

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Tom Brake: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, in relation to public transport, to a great extent, the smoking ban on the tube and buses is being enforced not actively, but because people know that they are not allowed to smoke? The vast majority of passengers observe the ban.

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Tom Brake: Hon. Members will no doubt ask, "Why is this new clause required?" The answer is that although cab drivers can choose to designate their cabs smoking or non-smoking vehicles, they have difficulty in enforcing the no smoking rule at present. Passengers are well aware that enforcement is impossible, and occasionally point that out to cab drivers who ask them not to smoke. I have met the...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Tom Brake: I will explain; it is very simple. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is a smoker and is not familiar with the anxiety or the stress that non-smokers experience when we encounter smokers from all walks of life. It is a question of individual rights. Taxi drivers, who, in effect, operate out of their office, have the right to choose whether they want someone entering that office to smoke. The taxi...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Tom Brake: I agree entirely with the points that my hon. Friend has made, which are confirmed in the letter from the National Asthma Campaign, which talks about tobacco smoke being a trigger—

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Tom Brake: I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, which enables me to clarify that, as I hoped I had made clear, we are talking about allowing cab drivers to designate their cab a non-smoking cab if that is what they want to do. Equally, if they decide that they want their cab to be a smoking cab, it is entirely down to them. That is the purpose of our new clause.

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Tom Brake: That is an interesting point. I think the important principle is that the cab driver, who is running a business, should be able to choose whether his cab is a non-smoking or a smoking cab.

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Tom Brake: I hope that the passengers would choose a non-smoking cab if they wanted a no-smoking environment, and I hope that cab drivers would respect that and would choose not to smoke.