Results 1-14 of 14 for smoking speaker:Michael Fabricant

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Smoking Policy (21 May 2007)

Michael Fabricant: What advice the Commissioners are giving to cathedral deans in England with respect to the enforcement of no smoking laws from 1 July 2007; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Smoking Policy (21 May 2007)

Michael Fabricant: I was somewhat alarmed to hear the hon. Gentleman say that all smoking was banned, as I presume that incense is not covered. I support the smoking ban in general, and voted for it but, if he is right and we have to have signs, does he agree that they could be Gothic, with twirly whirly bits, or Norman? Signs like that would fit in more appropriately with beautiful cathedrals such as the one...

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Community Fire Safety Strategy (19 Apr 2006)

Michael Fabricant: I have some good news—[Interruption.] I have. The Staffordshire fire service not only provides poorer areas with free smoke alarms, it provides an exchange service for electric blankets. The Minister will know that, quite often, it is electric blankets that cause house fires. Are those schemes being taken up by other fire services and, if not, why not?

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Smoking (24 Nov 2005)

Michael Fabricant: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on his Department's policy concerning the health and safety of employees exposed to secondhand smoke.

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Smoking (14 Nov 2005)

Michael Fabricant: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will publish the findings of the Better Regulation Task Force on the provisions on smoking in public places contained in the Health Bill; and if he will make a statement.

Health and Education (30 Nov 2004)

Mr Michael Fabricant: ..., I think that the Secretary of State for Health accepted that it exists, although he deplores it. Thirdly, I shall speak about an issue that the hon. Member for Colne Valley raised, which is smoking and health. I suspect that we share similar views. In my constituency, there is a farm that breeds guinea pigs primarily for medical research.

Health and Education (30 Nov 2004)

Mr Michael Fabricant: ...waiting time. That is a real problem that I know both main parties would wish to address, but we have to be honest about this matter, and I feel that we are not at times. Let me now move on briskly to smoking and health. I am disappointed that the Queen's Speech does not announce legislation on the control of smoking. Many hon. Members on both sides of the House— I suspect that they...

Written Answers — House of Commons: Smoking Room (16 Mar 2004)

Mr Michael Fabricant: To ask the Chairman of the Catering Committee when the Smoking Room was renamed Members' Smoke Room as set out on the survey card for that room.

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

Mr Michael Fabricant: ...'s argument on freedom of choice—indeed, I note the increase in the nanny state since the Labour party came into power—but does he share my concern that advertising encourages people to smoke who would not otherwise do so? Does he also acknowledge the fact that it was perhaps the most libertarian of Governments—the Administration in the 1980s—who made the then...

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

Mr Michael Fabricant: ...the Thatcher Administration, when she chose to ban tobacco advertising on radio and television because of the clear link between advertising and not only buying particular brands, but taking up smoking in the first place? Surely what is right for Margaret Thatcher should be right for this House.

Foot and Mouth (9 Apr 2001)

Mr Michael Fabricant: ...have in my constituency? A cremation pyre is being built in Hood lane, near Longdon in Staffordshire, within 200 yards of a village. Does he accept that, whatever the reality of the toxicity of the smoke, people are very concerned about the smells and the dirt? There are a number of people with asthma, emphysema and other breathing problems. Is there any way that the pyre can be moved...

New Clause 4: Criteria for Appraisals by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (14 Jun 1999)

Mr Michael Fabricant: ...the free provision of nicotine replacement therapies in order to reduce the cost to the national health service of treatments for cancer and pulmonary and other dysfunctions caused by tobacco smoking?

Orders of the Day — Work, Welfare, Education and Health (15 May 1997)

Mr Michael Fabricant: ...Administrations. Both Bills contained provisions banning tobacco advertising on radio and television. We did that because tobacco advertising works. It encourages young and old people to smoke, when it is known that smoking is bad for people's health. It is therefore intellectual nonsense to claim that a Government who thought it wrong to advertise tobacco on radio and television would not...

Prayers: Drugs Strategy (21 Jun 1996)

Mr Michael Fabricant: What is the hon. Gentleman arguing? Is he saying that the condition of all drugs, both illegal and legal, is the same? He is saying, is he not, that tobacco smoking is just as dangerous as the use of other drugs—I agree with him on that. Is he saying that, as he believes that there is no effective way of stopping people taking drugs and that prohibition of drugs does not work, he would...