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Written Answers — House of Lords: Prisons: Smoking Policy (20 Jan 2005)

Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: asked Her Majesty's Government: What steps HM Prison Service is taking to provide non-smoking cells and wings in its estate.

Clause 8: Safeguarding of Information (22 Feb 1989)

Mr Robin Corbett: ..., should not be on the side of a canal, to the person responsible for them. Under the clause as drafted, if a good citizen passed such documents to ITN and ITN let the side down by saying, "Holy smoke, there's a real cracker here and we should do something about it."—let us assume that the D notice committee does not hear about it—the good citizen could be in trouble. He or she...

Orders of the Day — Preventive Medicine (12 Jun 1978)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...life and death. Judging from the attendance at this debate, we have clearly failed to get that message across to hon. Members, let alone further afield. Increasing numbers of us are in danger of smoking ourselves to death, gorging ourselves into obesity, drinking too much or becoming so flatulent that some of us make extra and continuing demands on the NHS and many of us are unable or...

Orders of the Day — Preventive Medicine (12 Jun 1978)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...Union against Cancer all want the kind of tougher action that we propose in our report. The priority target group should be the young. The aim should be to try to stop them from starting to smoke, but that does not absolve those of us who are older from trying to get out of this addictive habit. A constituent of mine, a cigarette smoker, told me on Friday night that the House should be...

Orders of the Day — Preventive Medicine (12 Jun 1978)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...That was very sound advice for the rest of that inquiry. Research has demonstrated that an overwhelming number of people in the medical profession, particularly general practitioners, have given up smoking, much to their credit. I am sure that there is no argument about the points made about the Health Education Council. We were very impressed, not so much by what it had done, although...

New Clause 14: Misuse of Drugs Act 1971: Altera Tion of Penalties and Other Amendments (13 Jul 1977)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...the new clause fall under three headings—first, to remove imprisonment as a penalty for the cultivation of cannabis; secondly, to abolish the offence of allowing premises to be used for the smoking of cannabis; and thirdly, to abolish the powers of the police to stop and search for drugs without formal arrest. I stress again that there is nothing in what is proposed that would...

New Clause 1: Anonymity of Defendants in Rape etc. Cases (21 May 1976)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...and thoroughly to clear a man's name and cleanse his character. There will always be those in the community and at work who are taking decisions about career prospects of the man who will say "No smoke without fire", and that can be most damaging to the individual. I want to make quite clear, Sir Myer, that I am not in any way seeking to support justice in the dark or secret courts. That...

Orders of the Day — Agriculture (14 Jul 1975)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...and, to that extent, stop the needless loss of output. As the White Paper says, the biggest scope for improvement is in the making, use and storage of grass and animal by-products. Two years ago 3½ million tons of straw went up in smoke out of a total of about 9½ million tons. I doubt whether we shall see that this year. Much work is put into grassland improvement and...