Results 1-4 of 4 for smoking speaker:Barry Gardiner
- Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Passive Smoking (9 Dec 2004)
Mr Barry Gardiner: The Government recently published a White Paper, "Choosing health: making healthier choices easier" that contains a number of proposals for dealing with passive smoking in the workplace in England. Publication of a Code of Practice on Passive Smoking at Work in Northern Ireland is currently on hold while a fresh look is taken at the way forward in the light of the White Paper proposals and...
- Budget Resolutions — Amendment of the Law (17 Mar 2004)
Mr Barry Gardiner: I want to share two secrets with the House. The first is what my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Olner) told me earlier. Since he gave up smoking, he said, Budget debates have not been as exciting as they used to be. I suspect that even he, though, did not anticipate the effect of the response to the Budget by the Leader of the Opposition, because my second secret is that the Home...
- Public Services, Health and Education (3 Dec 2003)
Mr Barry Gardiner: ...yet. The Government have set a target of 70 per cent. of the population engaging in regular physical exercise by 2020. It is right for them to set high standards. Just as they intervene to stop us smoking and to encourage safe sex and sensible drinking, so they must intervene to fight obesity by removing the hurdles that prevent people from being more active. A key element in making the...
- Written Answers — International Development: Smoking (6 Oct 2003)
Mr Barry Gardiner: To ask the Minister of State, Department for International Development (1) what discussions he has had with developing countries about health programmes to reduce smoking; and what assessment has been made of the use of UK programmes in developing countries; (2) what estimate his Department has made of the healthcare costs associated with the growth in smoking in developing countries; (3)...