Results 1-11 of 11 for smoking speaker:Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Fires: Smoking (25 Jun 2009)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effect of trends in levels of smoking in domestic premises on trends in the number of domestic fires since 1988.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Smoke Alarms (8 Jun 2009)

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what assessment she has made of the effect of rates of adoption of domestic smoke alarms between 1988 and 2000 on the rates of death from domestic fires in that period.

Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...Committees sitting through the night—and my hon. Friend the Member for Woking remembers that, too. It used to be the custom for the usual channels to buy Members of their party champagne and smoked salmon if a Committee sat through the night, and I would be delighted to do that if we sat through the night, but I suspect that the Government would vigorously reject such a proposal. We...

Fire and Rescue Services Bill (26 Jan 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...Marsh, I know how difficult and physically arduous it is. Trying to lift a hydraulic opener, which opens a vehicle's roof and windows to get people out of a car, is physically arduous. Going into a smoke-filled room and carrying out people who may be unconscious is difficult and arduous. My hon. Friend the Member for Upminster was right to say that we need to recruit women and men on the...

Fire and Rescue Services Bill (26 Jan 2004)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: There is a fire service college at Moreton-in-Marsh and I have seen at first hand that when fire officers approach a difficult fire, in smoke-filled premises, with appalling visibility, each fire officer relies on the other absolutely for his life and to save lives. Recruitment must therefore be done on merit so that the best and most suitable person for the job is appointed.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] (29 Apr 2002)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: I thank the Minister for giving way. May I put it to her that she is living in a slightly surreal world? The real problem with tobacco smoking is smuggling. Three years ago, one in seven cigarettes were smuggled. Today, the figure is nearer one in five, yet the Government go on pushing up duty year in, year out, as they have done in the Budget. That will merely encourage more and more smuggling.

Housing (15 Nov 2001)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: The hon. Gentleman says "Oh," but I will give examples of those stealth taxes and perhaps he will put them in his pipe and smoke them. The Government have abolished mortgage tax relief and raised stamp duty twice.

Drug misuse (22 Feb 2000)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...that he extended to me. I read the education initiative that the right hon. Gentleman has just outlined, and I was slightly concerned, as it seems to equate heroin addiction with alcohol, smoking and solvents, which are in an entirely different league of addiction and physical damage. That is not helpful. Will he examine the education programme, speak to his colleagues in the Department...

Local Government Finance (2 Dec 1998)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: On the face of it, the settlement for Gloucestershire county council looks generous, but it is based on smoke and mirrors. The education settlement is 1 per cent. below the national average, although Gloucestershire is already among the lowest-spending councils on education in the country. Our police settlement will involve a £1.5 million cut in the police budget. The council tax payers...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Low Cancer-Risk Part-Renewable Blended Diesel (28 Jul 1997)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ..., to switch to low-sulphur diesel. We all know the effects of the sulphur pollution that belches from the back of unserviced HGVs and cars, and it is possible to see the particulates and the white smoke and to smell the sulphur. We should encourage a universal switch to ultra-low-sulphur diesel, through fiscal measures, as we did with unleaded petrol. Ten years ago, the market for unleaded...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Low Cancer-Risk Part-Renewable Blended Diesel (28 Jul 1997)

Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: ...could consider innovative ways of encouraging people to use public transport, on a "carrot" rather than a "stick" basis. In any of our major cities, queues of cars with only one occupant belch out smoke from unwarmed engines. Fiscal measures to encourage people to share cars could be introduced, along with a host of measures to encourage the return of heavier goods to the railways. Some...