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Bill Presented: Clause 14 — Rates from April 2010 (13 May 2009) has video

Frank Field: I do not want us to get muddled up with smoking taxation. I am raising the issue of low-paid workers—people who want to work and who do work—who face the cost of getting to work in their cars. The question they posed, which I put to Treasury Ministers, is whether there might not be fairer ways of raising the necessary revenue—I am not asking for revenue cuts—by...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 2 — Treatment of siblings for purpose of inheritance tax (1 Jul 2008) has video

Frank Field: ...hope that the Economic Secretary will respond to the main points in the debate. When historians write up the Labour Government, the two changes they will pick on as the most lasting are the ban on smoking and the establishment of civil partnerships. Both of them changed in a significant and good way the nature of our society, one because it used the law to set— [ Interruption. ] It...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (20 Jul 2001)

Mr Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of those aged over 16 years smoked in (a) 1999, (b) 2000 and (c) 2001.

Orders of the Day — Social Policy (25 Oct 1996)

Mr Frank Field: ...the operation of government but the character of the nation. I hope that we have now gone through the long, dark tunnel. Many of us worry about whether there should be advertisements that promote smoking, because we believe that that affects people's behaviour, yet at the same time we believe that a Government can spend £95,000 million on social security and it will have no effect on...

Opposition Day: National Health Service (5 Jul 1988)

Mr Frank Field: ...that in my constituency recently where somebody left the Cheshire hospital after 34 years. He has been cut off by his family, except his sister. He sleeps for only an hour and a half at a time, he smokes and drops his cigarettes all over the place. His sister is almost at the point of breakdown. Until that man was returned to hospital, that woman was providing community care. To say that...