Results 1-8 of 8 for smoking speaker:Michael Clapham

[Mr. Bill Olner in the Chair] — Fire Safety (Schools) (19 May 2009)

Michael Clapham: ...young people aged about 15. They see how the fire service works in training and applies its measures when it goes out to a fire. My right hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield has referred to smoke alarms. A surprising announcement was made not too long ago that 80 per cent. of domestic dwellings are now fitted with smoke alarms, which shows how much the fire and rescue services' proactive...

Business of the House: Topical Debate — Energy Providers (16 Oct 2008) has video

Michael Clapham: ...endeavour. The big six are in a much more influential position in respect of electricity, with an enormous say on electricity prices in the market. That does not mean that they sit down in smoke-filled rooms and come to an agreement on the price, but because there is an oligopoly of only six major electricity producers the price signals from one to the other are easily picked up and...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 4 — Pleural plaques (3 Dec 2007)

Michael Clapham: ...there is no evidence of any other cause. It is widely held that asbestos exposure is the cause of Pleural Plaques. I have never heard this doubted before, although there is speculation that smoking may make Plaques more likely." That was the view of Professor Tony Newman Taylor who, at one point, was chair of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council. The e-mail continues: "You may be...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 13 — Mesothelioma: damages (17 Jul 2006)

Michael Clapham: ...we were arguing for such a scheme, his party in government took the view that the medical knowledge of the day could not distinguish damage done to the lungs by dust from damage done to them by smoking. That was what led to the unions taking the case to court. We found that medical evidence had been available to the Government, including the findings of a longitudinal study of miners in...

Public Bill Committee: Compensation Bill [Lords]: Clause 5 (27 Jun 2006)

Michael Clapham: ...and requested that the Government consider introducing a scheme. If I recall correctly, the then Minister replied that one could not distinguish between the damage done to a person’s lungs by smoking and that done by dust. The trade unions were in the Gallery and decided, following that debate, that they would take the case to court. The case went to court and the High Court came...

Health and Safety Commission and Executive (20 Jan 2005)

Mr Michael Clapham: ...no longitudinal studies were done. During the 1960s and 1970s, and into the 1980s, tens of thousands of men left the industry with respiratory diseases each year. The cause always went down as smoking. Had those studies been done, they would have shown clearly that the dust was an issue. There had been great technological developments in mining, such as improvements to the cutting of coal,...

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Industrial Disease (19 Jan 2004)

Mr Michael Clapham: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many of the full and final settlements for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were reduced because of a smoking history; what percentage of the total number of such settlements this represents; and what the average value was of the reductions made.

Orders of the Day — Coal Operating Aid Scheme (22 Nov 2000)

Mr Michael Clapham: ...court case that went to appeal would probably have gone to the House of Lords. In an Adjournment debate in January 1996, I proposed a scheme to the previous Government. They replied that they believed that smoking was the bigger cause of chronic bronchitis and emphysema. That implies that they would have fought the case through the House of Lords, and that compensation would not yet have...