Results 1-7 of 7 for smoking speaker:Alan Duncan
- Opposition Day — [13th Allotted Day]: Department of Trade and Industry (6 Jun 2007)
Alan Duncan: I shall pick one straight away. I would not force all businesses to put no-smoking signs in every public room throughout the country for ever and permanently. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will persuade his party to vote against such ridiculous and numerous regulations.
- Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Tourism: Smoking (16 Apr 2007)
Alan Duncan: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what assessment she has made of the likely effect of the ban on smoking in public places in the Health Act 2006 on tourism to the UK from the middle east.
- Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Public Places (16 Apr 2007)
Alan Duncan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations she has received on the health effects of the smoking of shisha pipes in public places.
- UK Supreme Court (9 Feb 2004)
Mr Alan Duncan: ...and then immediately transformed into fiction. The Lord Chancellor was publicly sawn in half by the Prime Minister—no mean feat, I have to say—and then magically reappeared in a puff of smoke. There then followed a private deal with an incumbent judge, which bypasses proper parliamentary procedures or which, at the very least, has pre-empted them. That was then followed by a...
- Smoking (10 Dec 1998)
Mr Alan Duncan: I have never been a smoker and, personally, I dislike it. The Opposition welcome any sensible measures that reduce smoking, especially among the young. However, I have concerns and suspicions about some of the methods that the Secretary of State has outlined in today's much delayed White Paper. The heavy emphasis on advertising is questionable. We have always known that the White Paper would...
- Smoking (10 Dec 1998)
Mr Alan Duncan: ...companies to continue to advertise their non-tobacco products? The Opposition fully support a voluntary proof-of-age scheme. Such voluntary measures will have the greatest impact on reducing smoking with the minimum of bossiness. We note what the Secretary of Stage said about the practicalities of introducing a new criminal offence and we shall look at that very closely, to ensure that...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Teenage Smoking (30 Jun 1998)
Mr Alan Duncan: Does the Minister believe that the incidence of teenage smoking will be reduced by the publication by her Department—at public expense—of a glossy magazine about health targets, which contains no fewer than 32 photographs of herself? What is the justification for that extraordinary publication? Does she hope that it will distract youngsters from poster sites, or does she see...