Results 1-18 of 18 for smoking speaker:Kenneth Clarke

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...him. He has embarked on an extension of the criminal law, bans on advertising and regulation into areas of choice as to what people drink and eat—their choice of diet—and whether they smoke. That is an extraordinary extension of the role of the state into individual liberty and choice of lifestyle in this country. Does the Secretary of State further accept that the major...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (17 Apr 2000)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: I begin by declaring a personal interest to the House. Not only do I pay income tax, smoke, drive a car and occasionally have a drink, but I am also, as the Register of Members' Interests shows, a non-executive director of four limited companies in this country. Those companies are affected by various proposals in the Bill. I do not think that that marks me out particularly, as almost every...

Pre-Budget Statement (9 Nov 1999)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...;which, when the details emerge, will yet again turn out to be little or nothing in practice—can correct? The Chancellor has set the country on a course of lower expectations for future economic growth and uses smoke and mirrors to present it as a triumph.

Spending Review (11 Jun 1997)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...which it can perform them more effectively and efficiently? If the right hon. Gentleman cannot answer even those questions about a framework policy, we regard it as the beginning of a whole lot of smoke and mirrors—like the National Audit Office review of the Budget assumptions, preparing the way for moving away from strict control of public expenditure and equating it with the...

Ways and Means (13 Dec 1994)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...decision-making factor. It is also by no means easy to demonstrate that it was a result of smuggling; it is a result of changing habits. The point of taxation policy is in part to discourage smoking. My remarks on smuggling remain. We must tackle smuggling ever more effectively and keep up pressure on other Europeans to raise their duties.

Tax Revenue (8 Dec 1994)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...tobacco products, with the exception of hand-rolling tobacco, will increase by just under 4 per cent., equivalent to a further 6p on a packet of 20 cigarettes. This further increase in tobacco duty is consistent with our policy of increasing prices to discourage smoking. I also propose that the duties on road fuels will rise by a further 1p a litre. I have kept these increases to the...

Tax Revenue (8 Dec 1994)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good. I know my hon. Friend's fierce commitment to the cause of reducing smoking, and increasing taxation on it to help that cause. He and those right hon. and hon. Members who agree with him will, I am sure, be pleased that their campaign has been reinforced by my being obliged to go back and take more money from tobacco in addition to the significant...

Prevention of Terrorism (10 Mar 1993)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...to forget. If the Opposition are trying to forget and to break away from that, they should start changing Labour's actions. It would be welcome and reassuring to many if Labour did not just raise a smoke screen about talks but withheld its opposition to the renewal of the powers this year.

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (20 Mar 1986)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...are among the major sectors for employment growth worldwide and that we have a long way to go before we catch up with other countries. The Labour and trades union movement's apparent obsession with "smoke stack" industries is yet another example of their determination to put the clock back. The Government are determined to help those who wish to work for themselves or to set up small...

Opposition Day: Inequalities in Health (6 Dec 1982)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: I have the figures for Norway, where cigarette advertising was banned in 1973. Since that time, smoking by men has reduced from 51 per cent. to 43 per cent., but smoking by women has increased from 32 per cent. to 33 per cent. In this country, there has been a reduction in smoking during the same period from 52 per cent. to 42 per cent. among men. and from 41 per cent. to 37 per cent. among...

Petition: Heavy Lorries (London) (22 May 1981)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...it is a real problem and that there are too many such vehicles about. We hope to strengthen present regulations. We are already considering how to introduce a new objective measurement of vehicle smoke from engines in use. The Armitage report has attracted a great deal of public attention because of its recommendations on the difficult matter of lorry weights. Sir Arthur Armitage's...

Orders of the Day — Darlington — Bishop Auckland Rail Link (15 Nov 1979)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...story of that kind appears, especially when it is given prominence on the front page of a newspaper as the main story of the day, however much Ministers protest there is a belief that there is no smoke without fire and that the story must be well founded. After a time we begin to run out of ways of trying to emphasise that the story is well wide of the mark. Certainly there is no point in...

Orders of the Day — Reform of Government (23 Feb 1977)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...this country, there is an amalgamation of respective beliefs before an election. It is quite different in a multi-party system because the coalition is formed after the election by secret deals in smoke filled rooms between parties which can form a majority but which did not coalesce before the election. That leads me to the third consequence of our present electoral system which I...

Orders of the Day — Reform of Government (23 Feb 1977)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...be refuted is that the Labour Party, in its internal attempts to come to a coalition solution and its attempts to reach agreement on policy, certainly does not conduct its affairs in secret or in smoke-filled rooms. Those affairs are only too public. On the other hand, when an attempt was made to form a coalition between the Liberals and the Conservatives in February 1974, there was...

Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) BILL (27 Feb 1976)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...in my view that it is positively good socially that children should first be introduced to alcohol in a family setting, in restrained surroundings, and not brought up to believe that drinking, like smoking, is something secret which adults do and to which they themselves can aspire as soon as they reach a certain age. The Bill does not go very far. It simply allows the appropriate...

Smoking and Health (16 Jan 1976)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...of Nottingham. In that city a large number of cigarettes are made, and, therefore, the well-being of the area which I represent is very much affected by the well-being of the tobacco industry. I smoke fairly heavily although some years ago I transferred from smoking cigarettes to smoking small cigars in the no doubt mistaken belief—I am sure someone will demonstrate—that I was...

Smoking and Health (16 Jan 1976)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: ...from my understanding of his speech? He suggested that sports sponsorship should perhaps be shifted to safer brands and be used, as it were, to draw attention to low tar content brands for safer smoking. He said that the only change he would contemplate would be the ending of sports sponsorship which was directed to high tar content cigarettes. That was my understanding of that passage in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services: Cigarette Advertising (8 Jul 1975)

Mr Kenneth Clarke: Will the Minister lay before the House the results of any research which the Department has done showing what has been achieved so far by way of reducing cigarette smoking as a result of warning notices and the steps which have been taken? Does he not agree that before we rush ahead into even more drastic measures we should be assured that we are doing some actual good to public health,...