Results 1-20 of 92 for smoking speaker:Yvette Cooper

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Smoking (16 Jan 2007)

Yvette Cooper: The Department has no plans to issue planning guidance or a planning circular in respect of the smoking ban in public places.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Planning Blight (Compensation) (9 Mar 2006)

Yvette Cooper: ...be payable for a reduction in value of land caused by the use of certain public works. This compensation is based upon the depreciation caused by physical factors: noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, artificial light and the discharge onto land of any solid or liquid substance. Compensation is not available for a loss of view.

Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 80 - Revocation of licences (29 Jan 2004)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...would certainly expect there to be quite a lot of read-across. If there are particular reasons why someone has not maintained a property and has let the whole place collapse, has not installed a smoke alarm or addressed antisocial behaviour in an HMO, and has not exercised their responsibilities in all sorts of ways, the chances are that they will not do so in individual properties that...

Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 56 - Licence conditions (27 Jan 2004)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...to ensure tenants' safety. Therefore, the conditions set out in the schedule include having a gas safety certificate, keeping electrical appliances and furniture in a safe condition, keeping smoke alarms in proper working order and so on. In addition, the landlord will be required to supply the occupier of the house with a written statement of the terms on which they occupy it. Most good...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (21 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: The Health Education Authority publication titled "The UK Smoking Epidemic: Deaths in 1995" by Christine Callum sets out the impact of smoking on life expectancy, table F1 on page 65. A copy of the report is available in the Library. The report shows, for example, that men of 35 who smoke will, on average, die seven years earlier than men who have never been smokers. Similarly, women of 35...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 10 - Prohibition of sponsorship (14 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...preventing the promotion of tobacco products, regardless of whether companies are party to a sponsorship agreement. It will not stop freedom of speech in this House or elsewhere on the subject of smoking, in general. It is right that the clause should stop the promotion of particular tobacco products or sponsorship agreements at a party conference, for example, that might promote a...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 10 - Prohibition of sponsorship (14 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...needed. That would potentially open further loopholes. The Bill bans the promotion of tobacco products through sponsorship. It is not about preventing organisations from discussing the merits of smoking. There should be a broader exemption for those in the tobacco trade.

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 9 - Prohibition of free distributions (14 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ..., but I believe that it is not appropriate and ask the Committee to reject it. Free gifts can be a powerful tool in tobacco companies' armouries, and gift schemes can be used to tempt lower-income smokers. The advertising agency used by Gallaher provided a document to the Health Committee in 1999 that stated: ''Who are we talking to: Glasgow's smokers—they smoke because they enjoy...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: The crux of the hon. Gentleman's argument seems to turn on proportionality. There are 120,000 deaths from smoking each year. Estimates suggest that a ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship would reduce consumption by 2.5 per cent. and, in the long term, save up to 3,000 lives per year. That is a pretty clear-cut public health case in favour of a comprehensive ban.

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...the hon. Gentleman is a lawyer and, as such, he will be able to suggest all kinds of legal arguments. However, the issue is about proportionality. The number of deaths that occur each year due to smoking and the number of deaths that could be prevented by a ban on tobacco advertising cut to the heart of the question of proportionality. The numbers give clear evidence of the importance of a...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...about the proportionality of banning or restricting alcohol advertising have any bearing on the proportionality of banning cigarette and tobacco advertising, because of the massive health impact of smoking. We have looked at all the proportionality issues, and the impact of tobacco on public health has led us to decide to go ahead with the Bill.

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 4 - Advertising: exclusions (9 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: Amendment No. 11 would create an exemption for specialist publications aimed at existing smokers. Amendment No. 12 would create an exemption for a specialist publication for which people have not withdrawn their request in writing, and amendment No. 14 would exempt anything sent by a specialist tobacconist to an identified individual, who does not have to be an existing customer. I shall...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 - Advertising: newspapers, periodicals etc (9 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...that promotes tobacco products to be banned. We have made a decision to ban advertising in the course of a business and to allow free speech and discussion about the merits and health risks of smoking and of different tobacco products—when that is not done in the course of a business and when it does not constitute an advertisement. That is right, because ultimately the purpose of...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 2 - Prohibition of tobacco advertising (9 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...because the Bill is not about preventing members of the public, journalists, writers or others talking about tobacco products, representing them on stage or film or commenting in the press about smoking and tobacco. It does not prevent someone drawing up a poster that says, ''I love cigarettes'' and putting it in their window, if it is not done in the course of a business. It is right that...

Written Answers — Health: Lung Cancer (8 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: These data are not routinely collected. The latest estimate of the proportion of deaths from lung cancer was made by the Health Education Authority who estimated in their 1998 report, "The UK Smoking Epidemic: Deaths in 1995", that in 1995 84 per cent. of all deaths from lung cancer (90 per cent. men, 73 per cent. women) in the United Kingdom were caused by smoking.

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product'' (7 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...to describe a case in which a company is attacking rather than promoting a tobacco product. If a company put forward an advertisement in which the effect was to try and persuade people to give up smoking or give up a particular product, the question would be: is the effect of the advert to promote a tobacco product? If it is promoting tobacco, it is covered by the Bill. If it promotes...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product'' (7 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: I have considerable sympathy with the intention behind the amendment. Clearly we need to ensure that people have access to the support and help that they need if they want to give up smoking. We know that 70 per cent. of smokers say that they want to give up. That is why we have been so clear in promoting the availability of nicotine replacement therapy and Zyban on the national health...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product'' (7 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...they are the most efficient and effective way of providing people with nicotine. At the same time, it allows us to promote effective nicotine replacement therapy to help people who want to give up smoking. The hon. Member for Spelthorne mentioned snuff. That is not as dangerous as smoking, but it is addictive and a source of increased cases of oral and nasal cancer. Although the hon....

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product'' (7 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: ...that is how we legislate: we put words in and we rely on their natural meaning. Whether it is ''tobacco advertisement'', ''tobacco product'', ''purpose'', ''effect'' or ''tobacco'', whether it is smoked, sniffed, sucked or chewed, we rely on the word's natural meaning. That is what we do when we legislate; it is what we do when we talk.

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 - Meaning of ''tobacco advertisement'' and ''tobacco product'' (7 May 2002)

Ms Yvette Cooper: .... We have made it clear why we believe that the advertising of cigarettes and products that kill should be banned in this country. Nobody is preventing people from buying cigarettes or choosing to smoke. I strongly believe that people have a right to smoke, and tobacco products remain legal. However, for all the reasons that we set out on Second Reading—because of its effect on...