Results 1-20 of 35 for smoking speaker:Liam Fox

Points of Order: Armed Forces Personnel (21 Jun 2007)

Liam Fox: ...in the overarching future rotor capability process, the overall budgets were reduced by £1.4 billion. In other words, when the Government introduced a single helicopter programme they used smoke and mirrors to reduce the budget, at a time when we were involved in two major conflicts. Spending on helicopter equipment has fallen from £662 million in 2001-02 to just £183...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (6 Oct 2003)

Dr Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many smoking cessation project co-ordinators have been appointed in each primary care trust.

Written Answers — Health: Suicide (4 Nov 2002)

Dr Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps are being taken to tackle the problem of smoking in prisons.

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

Dr Liam Fox: As the Minister says, over a long period we achieved great reductions in tobacco consumption and smoking prevalence rates—37 per cent. and 40 per cent. respectively. Of the three strands of policy—health education, price mechanism and restriction of advertising—which contributed in what proportion to that reduction?

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

Dr Liam Fox: ...the points that we made. However, the Secretary of State said earlier that the advertising ban was not only the most important factor in reducing prevalence, but that it will be the "core" of anti-smoking policy. There can be only one core.

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

Dr Liam Fox: I beg to move, To leave out from "House" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof: "whilst supporting the aim of reducing the number of deaths from smoking, declines to give a Second Reading to the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] because there is insufficient evidence that its provisions will lead to a quantifiable reduction in tobacco consumption; because it does...

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

Dr Liam Fox: ...products are met. It is not illegal to sell tobacco products except to children under 16, and they are sold through more than 200,000 retail outlets and sales points. It is not illegal to buy and smoke tobacco products, and 15 million adults sadly do. The Government earn handsomely through the system. Irrespective of which party is in government—and irrespective of what we ourselves...

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

Dr Liam Fox: ...games. For the Secretary of State to say that no action was taken is demeaning in a debate of this nature. In those years, this country was one of the most successful in the world in reducing smoking prevalence, and we should take pride in that. Between 1971 and 1996, tobacco consumption fell by more than 37 per cent. and prevalence fell by 40 per cent. Policies to reduce advertising were...

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

Dr Liam Fox: ..., taxation policies and public health education meant that we had a very good record. The question that is very difficult to answer is which part of the mixture was most successful in reducing smoking prevalence. It is difficult to say what is the relative importance of each of the three strands of policy. Despite the continuation of advertising restrictions and health education under this...

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

Dr Liam Fox: ...the cultures within which the bans were imposed. In the United Kingdom, a big reduction was achieved by a mix of policies; along with the Netherlands, we were particularly successful in getting our smoking rates down through a variety of different policies. I am not arguing that restricting advertising would not have played a part; the Conservative Government thought that the code on...

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

Dr Liam Fox: ...a difficult debate. On the one hand, we believe that only when it has no alternative should the state act to restrict individual freedom. On the other hand, I personally detest the effects of smoking.

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

Dr Liam Fox: No, I said that I would not for the moment. As I was saying, if advertising restrictions have not changed, but smoking has increased, what is the cause? If we are to answer that question, we need to look at the real-terms cost of tobacco, which has been affected by the huge increase in smuggling. The National Audit Office report on tobacco smuggling made for grim reading, according to the...

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

Dr Liam Fox: ...conflicting evidence. He added that no clear assessment could be made of what would happen in the UK. At that time, we were already working against a background of having better reductions in our smoking prevalence and consumption than other countries. In the light of the evidence in the UK and elsewhere, it is difficult to come to clear conclusions. There are fundamental questions to be...

Written Answers — Health: Zyban (11 Mar 2002)

Dr Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on how the underspend on anti-smoking initiatives has been spent.

Written Answers — Health: Tobacco Policy Team (5 Mar 2002)

Dr Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department met the smoking czar, Nikki Wade.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking Cessation Services (16 Jan 2002)

Dr Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information he has collated on the number of people who gave up smoking on the quit date set during their participating in smoking cessation services who have continued to abstain from tobacco in the following 12 months.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Penalties (13 Feb 2001)

Dr Liam Fox: ...the Bill in the time allowed by the programme motion. As the Minister for Public Health said, the Bill has a simple and oft-repeated aim. The Opposition share that aim, which is to reduce smoking. No one doubts that smoking is bad and damages health. As far as I know, nobody has tried during the passage of the Bill to argue the converse and to suggest that smoking is not a bad thing....

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Penalties (13 Feb 2001)

Dr Liam Fox: ...have not taken an absolute position; we are considering the extent to which we should make such a restriction. The United Kingdom did well for many years in reducing tobacco consumption and smoking prevalence through a combination of price mechanism, education and restrictions, if not a ban, on tobacco advertising. There was a consensus on that in the House of Commons and in the country....

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Penalties (13 Feb 2001)

Dr Liam Fox: I should declare an interest in relation to my right hon. Friend's second point. As an asthma sufferer, I find it a perpetual source of irritation to have to inhale other people's tobacco smoke. However, that matter does not come within the scope of the Bill, and I am sure that you would quickly rule me out of order if I were to go down that route, Madam Deputy Speaker. My right hon. Friend...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Dr Liam Fox: ...lead to a quantifiable reduction in tobacco consumption and yet they entail a serious restriction of freedom of expression; it contains no provisions to combat the increase in the prevalence of smoking amongst vulnerable population groups which is due to the growth in importation and sale of illegal tobacco products; nor does it address the difficulties of those sports which stand to lose...