Results 1-6 of 6 for smoking speaker:Simon Burns

Public Bill Committee: Policing and Crime Bill (29 Jan 2009)

Simon Burns: ...people think, because of course successive Chancellors under a series of Governments have used that policy on cigarette pricing, and there has been not a dramatic reduction in the number of people smoking but a significant increase in a smuggling problem that did not exist before?

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (26 Mar 2007)

Simon Burns: ...the last that he will deliver—was a wasted opportunity and a con trick on the British people. They do not like being conned, and it is quite plain that they have seen through the Chancellor's smoke-and-mirrors exercise and recognised it for the con that it is. Given that he is never wrong, if and when he moves next door to No. 10, he will have the consolation of there being someone...

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

Mr Simon Burns: ...—that will come into effect in December and the new year. I will not argue about whether that is right or wrong, particularly because of the ramifications for health, but it is a fact of life that many pensioners smoke and even more probably enjoy a pint of beer or a drink from time to time. They will have to pay more from their pensions for that. There is also the measure...

Business of the House (18 Jul 1991)

Mr Simon Burns: As a degree of urgency is involved, will my right hon. Friend arrange before the summer recess for a number of copies of the newspaper Militant to be made available in the Library, the Tea Room, the Smoking Room and Norman Shaw as so many Opposition Members seem to enjoy reading it?

Litter (23 Jun 1989)

Mr Simon Burns: ...the children will start educating their parents rather than the other way about. Another way of quickening the pace of changing attitudes is to alter the general perception of the problem, just as smoking has changed in the public's perception from a harmless, glamorous habit to an anti-social and disgusting one. People should not turn a blind eye, but should go up to those who drop...

Housing Benefit (27 Feb 1989)

Mr Simon Burns: ...on 26 January 1986, when he said that he was short of cash and that he had borrowed a few pounds from his housing benefit, which he had intended to make up, but that he had spent it on drinking and smoking too much. He still owes the Barretts £7 from that unhappy incident. The Barretts wrote to the council about that incident, which should have alerted the council to the fact that...