Results 1-20 of 356 for smoking speaker:Caroline Flint

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Multiple Occupation: Foreign Workers (4 Mar 2008)

Caroline Flint: As part of the "Fire Kills campaign" we have run a series of fire safety advertisements in some of the main Polish newspapers in England to promote smoke alarm ownership and maintenance messages. The Government have also implemented management regulations that apply to all houses in multiple occupation (HMOs). The management regulations impose a variety of duties on landlords of such...

Written Answers — Health: Heart Diseases: Health Education (27 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...have been quality assured and approved as national occupational standards. Health trainers focus on enabling people to change their behaviour in relation to a number of lifestyle factors such as smoking, reducing alcohol intake, physical exercise, healthy eating, all of which would help minimise the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (25 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 11 June 2007, Official Report, column 879W, for details on the legal requirements for the display of no-smoking signs.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Smoking: Public Places (20 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: I have been asked to reply. The anticipated costs and benefits of smoke-free legislation is set out in the Departments final Regulatory Impact Assessment published in December 2006. Copies are available in the Library. I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 5 March 2007, Official Report, column 1698W, for details on funding for local authorities. The Government provide funding for...

Written Answers — Health: Lymphatic Cancer (20 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: The purpose of national health service life checks is to highlight modifiable health behaviours and aspects of lifestyle that are risk factors for poor health. These will include smoking, diet and nutrition, physical activity, alcohol, stress and emotional well-being. The mid-life life check for people aged 45-60 will have a particular focus on assessing people's risk of vascular disease, the...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (20 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: The anticipated costs and benefits of smoke-free legislation is set out in the Departments final Regulatory Impact Assessment published in December 2006. Copies are available in the Library. I refer the hon. member to the answer given on 5 March 2007, Official Report, column 1698W for details on funding for local authorities. The Government provide funding for local authorities' new...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (18 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ..., guidance on the implementation of smokefree legislation was published by Local Authority Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services. The purpose of the guidance, which includes specific sections on no-smoking signs, is to support local council regulatory officers in successfully implementing smokefree legislation which will be enforced in England from 6 am on Sunday, 1 July 2007. The...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (18 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...100,000 visits a week, while the phone line receives 6,000 calls a week. The Department has developed a range of guides on the new law. A Smokefree England information pack, including a guide, no-smoking signs and other support materials has been sent to all registered, actively trading businesses in England that employ staff during April. Guidance documents can be downloaded from the...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (18 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: The Health Act 2006 requires no-smoking signs to be displayed in smokefree premises and vehicles that comply with the requirements set out in the Smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2007. To support those with management responsibilities for smokefree premises, the Department has designed and made freely available no-smoking signs that comply with the requirements of smokefree legislation. The...

Written Answers — Health: Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse (14 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...Programme, part of the Department's National Institute for Health Research, is currently supporting two studies looking in part at the cost effectiveness of therapies designed to help people stop smoking. These are: a systematic review of the effectiveness and an economic analysis of cut down to quit with nicotine replacement therapies; and relapse prevention in NHS stop smoking services:...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Public Places (11 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: Section 6 of the Health Act 2006 sets out a duty for any person who occupies or is concerned in the management of smokefree premises to make sure that no-smoking signs complying with the requirements of the new law are displayed. The new law will require virtually all enclosed workplaces and public places to be smokefree, including places of worship or listed buildings. Through the Smokefree...

Written Answers — Health: Drugs: Greater London (4 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...for 2007-08 to be finalised in June. Nationally, the national health service spends between £1.4 billion and £1.7 billion on alcohol related illnesses, and £1.4 billion and £1.7 billion on smoking related illnesses. PTB for Drug action team 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 Barking and Dagenham 111 1,019 1,149 1,430 1,849 Barnet 955...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (4 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...and provided on the number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) in national health service hospitals for those aged 35 and over with a primary diagnosis of diseases that can be caused by smoking and estimates of the number of those FCEs attributable to smoking. Table 1 shows the number of FCEs for those aged 35 and over with a primary diagnosis of various diseases that can be caused by...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (4 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: The specific information requested is not centrally collected. Data for referrals to smoking cessation services are not available. However, we can provide information for the number of people who have set a quit date through the NHS Stop Smoking Services in England and of those, how many people had successfully quit smoking at the four week follow up (based on self report). Figures have been...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Brent (4 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: Brent Teaching Primary Care Trust received a specific allocation of £334,000 for their national health service stop smoking services for each of the years 2006-07, and 2007-08. However, it is for the PCT to decide how best to spend these provide the service.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking-free Regulations (4 Jun 2007)

Caroline Flint: The Department ran a full 12-week public consultation on the smoke-free regulations to be made under powers in the Health Act 2006 between July and October 2006. This was an open public consultation, and the Department encouraged all interested parties to respond. Department officials recently met representatives from the Church of England, the Churches Main Committee and the Association of...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Religious Buildings (22 May 2007)

Caroline Flint: The evidence of the risk to health from exposure to second-hand smoke is well established, regardless of the type of premises where people might be exposed. For this reason, the smoke free provisions of the Health Act 2006 will prohibit smoking in virtually all enclosed public places and work places in England from 1 July 2007, including in places of worship. The English legislation is in...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (15 May 2007)

Caroline Flint: No estimate has been made specifically on the likely impact of smokefree legislation on cancer rates. The Government's independent Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health has concluded on the basis of an extensive review of medical and scientific evidence that there is an overall 24 per cent. increased risk of lung cancer in non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke. In March 2005, the...

Written Answers — Health: Alcoholic Drinks: Consumption (14 May 2007)

Caroline Flint: ...and unweighted data for 1998 to give an indication of the effect of weighting. Caution should be exercised when comparing weighted and unweighted data. Source: General Household Survey 2005, Smoking and Drinking Among Adults; Office for National Statistics

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (9 May 2007)

Caroline Flint: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence expects to publish its public health programme guidance on smoking cessation in November 2007.