Results 1-20 of 21 for smoking speaker:Christopher Chope

Point of Order: Drugs (Reclassification and Roadside Testing) (25 Apr 2007)

Christopher Chope: ...said on 18 March: "Teenage schizophrenia is the issue." We already know that 10 per cent. of all those with schizophrenia in the United Kingdom would not have developed the illness if they had not smoked cannabis—that is 25,000 individuals whose lives have been ruined by cannabis, not to mention their families, friends and loved ones, as well as the victims of the crime that so...

Royal Assent: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (27 Mar 2007)

Christopher Chope: It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne), who delivered an incisive analysis of what lies behind the Chancellor's smoke and mirrors. He drew to our attention, if we did not already know it, the fact that the Chancellor is basically once again raising taxes while saying that he is cutting them. My hon. Friend did not go quite as far as my right hon. and...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 1 — Driving with Illegal Drugs (9 Oct 2006)

Christopher Chope: ...contribution to this debate and to bring his experience to bear—seems to be saying that there are circumstances in which the detection equipment might falsely indicate that somebody had smoked cannabis when in fact they had merely been in the presence of somebody smoking it. I hope that the law will be able to distinguish between such cases.

Orders of the Day: New Clause 1 — Driving with Illegal Drugs (9 Oct 2006)

Christopher Chope: My policy is zero tolerance on illegality. At the moment it is not illegal in this country to consume alcohol. It is not illegal yet to smoke, although I see in tonight's Evening Standard that it is proposed to make it illegal to smoke in the open air in London. That is barking and disproportionate. What I am talking about is what I see as a serious issue of people who are taking illegal...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Christopher Chope: That is true, although we hear that the Government want to allow it in order to try to save a few seats at the next election. If prisoners cannot drink alcohol, why should they be allowed to smoke? It strikes me as totally inconsistent to take freedom to smoke away from those who are not prisoners, while allowing it to remain for those who are. Apart from anything else, we know that smoking...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Christopher Chope: .... It seems that those of us who feel as he does about the legislation will have to vote against new clause 5. The important point is that health and safety law already applies to secondary smoke in workplaces, and the Bill is therefore unnecessary if it is designed to look after the health and well-being of people in the workplace. The market is already operating to provide a range of...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Christopher Chope: ...has come as quite a surprise to many of my right hon. and hon. Friends, because they did not realise that the coercive powers that the Government are taking under clause 5 include the power to ban smoking in private motor vehicles. It would be wrong in principle to do such a thing, as well as totally impractical. I have yet to hear the Government offer any defence for taking this power,...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Christopher Chope: I will not, because the right hon. Gentleman spoke for an inordinate length of time, and I want to allow others to speak. The issue of smoking in prisons has been related to the issue of what a person can do in his or her own home, but there is a big distinction. At present people cannot drink alcohol in prison: thereby the Government accept that being a prisoner is different from being in an...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Christopher Chope: If it is wrong for prisoners to be able to drink alcohol in prison, why is it right under the Government's legislation for them to be able to smoke?

Disabled Children's Assessment and Services: Disabled Children's Assessment and Services (14 Feb 2006)

Christopher Chope: Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Does the same apply to amendment No. 6, in my name, which deals with the important issue of whether people should be allowed to smoke in their private motor vehicles?

Written Answers — Home Department: Prisons (23 Feb 2005)

Mr Christopher Chope: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the incidence of smoking in prisons in England and Wales was in the last period for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Home Department: Prisons (23 Feb 2005)

Mr Christopher Chope: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the policy of the Government are in relation to prisoners who do not wish to be exposed to the effects of passive smoking in their cells.

Community Railways (11 Jan 2005)

Mr Christopher Chope: ...heavily used by commuters during the day, to be included in the community rail network without local people having the opportunity to veto that? My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry) talked about smoke and mirrors and about not being able to trust the Government, a theme taken up by my hon. Friend the Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin), who has the Derwent valley...

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Road Casualties (19 Oct 2004)

Mr Christopher Chope: ...under this Government? Is that not a matter of great concern? Does he not think that the Government are spending too much money on education in relation to obesity and the consequences of smoking in public places but not spending enough money on road safety education? If the Government were concerned about road safety education, why did they not allow safety camera partnership money to be...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking Cessation Services (3 Dec 2002)

Mr Christopher Chope: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding his Department makes available to support smoking cessation; and what cost benefit analysis has been conducted of this spending.

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

Mr Christopher Chope: ...gone up by about 5 per cent. That suggests that the rules that normally apply, which are used by officials in Customs and Excise, are not operating in the UK market. In 1997, a child who wished to smoke cigarettes would have bought them at £3.12 for 20. Today, because of the enormous market in illegally imported cigarettes, a child can buy cigarettes at £2 or £2.50 for 20....

Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords] (27 Mar 2001)

Mr Christopher Chope: ...social security system. They become fraudsters. It is amazing that in the Government's first year, the yield from tobacco tax was about £8.4 billion. This year, it is £7.4 billion despite the fact that smoking has increased and the tax on cigarettes has risen by a third.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Christopher Chope: ...countries outside the European Union products to the specification that those countries want for their consumers. Although I share the concern of the hon. Member for Chorley about the incidence of smoking among young people, the examples that he gave are based on a fallacy. He cited motor racing, rugby league, fishing, darts, greyhounds and clay-pigeon shooting and suggested that the...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Christopher Chope: .... My argument is that one third of the cigarettes consumed in this country are available to young people at a quarter or a third of the price in newsagents. That is generating the increase in smoking among young people. It is offensive and I hope that the next Conservative Government will change it.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Christopher Chope: ...it is gratifying to realise that, as a result of the Government's ludicrous policy of increasing tax, the market is intervening and showing the policy to be totally counterproductive. I have never smoked, but I am full of admiration for those who do. If they did not, the public programmes for which they pay through their taxes would have to be funded to a greater extent by me. However, as...