Results 1-20 of 20 for smoking speaker:Edward Garnier

Written Answers — Justice: Prisons: Smoking (8 May 2009)

Edward Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners who smoke were sharing cells with non-smokers on 1 January 2009.

Public Bill Committee: Coroners and Justice Bill: Clause 49 (3 Mar 2009)

Edward Garnier: ...that the person makes the image available to third parties and the effect of the grossly offensive or disgusting image impinges on a third party. I am not sure that such matters have anything to do with smoking cannabis in private, taking heroin in private or engaging in other illegal activities in private. We are worried about where the balance lies. Should it lie in outlawing the simple...

Identity Cards Bill: Clause 5 — Applications relating to entries in Register (13 Mar 2006)

Edward Garnier: ..., the public have read their manifesto and taken them at their word. We recently had the derisory spectacle of the Secretary of State for Health throwing the Labour party's manifesto commitment on smoking in public places into the ashtray. Clearly, manifestos are relied on only when it suits the occasion, but it is surely better to have half an eye on the wording if they want to rely on it.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (1 Dec 2005)

Edward Garnier: ...of State for Health when she will publish the (a) minutes of the meetings of the (i) Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health and (ii) its Technical Advisory Group on the effects of second-hand smoke and (b) the conclusions reached at each meeting.

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...Flint: it is peopled mostly by Welsh undergraduates. I felt very honoured to be able to go to that part of Wales to study modern history. The college bar at Jesus is, I understand, a "voluntary" smoke-free area. That is fine: if the undergraduates and other members of the college want it to be smoke free, that is entirely a matter for them. I am not sure, however, that it needs to be a...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth), which opens up an area of inquiry that we should not avoid before giving this Bill a Second Reading. As I have said before, I take the firm view that smoking is bad for people. I do not wish to encourage it, and it would be foolish of anybody nowadays to think that smoking is not deleterious to health. However, let us consider the example of...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...a matter of detail that needs to be considered carefully before this Bill goes any further. However, there is a further irony in what the hon. Lady intends by her Bill. She wants to see an end to smoking in public places, for the perfectly laudable reason that she believes that that will improve public health and release victims of secondary smoking from the health hazards caused by being...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...finish the point, and then I would like the hon. Lady to intervene to comment on it. If the hon. Lady wishes to protect the victim from the witting or unwitting effects of the exhalation of tobacco smoke, she must ban smoking in places where people have no choice—and that means in the home. Children cannot tell their parents to stop smoking. They can advise or tease them, but they...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: I shall deal with that straight away, but I am sorry that the hon. Lady did not deal with my important point about banning smoking in private homes. I hope that she will intervene later and deal with that point. I do not want her to feel that she has not been given the opportunity to respond to it.

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...are full of Conservative supporters who are itching to go and vote on 5 May. It is interesting that the club committees have reached an agreement among themselves and staff that there should be no smoking at the bar. Employees who serve at the bar will not be affected by involuntary inhalation of smoke. Some parts of the clubs are reserved for non-smoking and others for smoking, but there...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...Library briefing. It was not prepared by me, by the hon. Member for Cardiff, North, by the tobacco industry, or still less by the Government of the Republic of Ireland. Having spoken about passive smoking and my concerns about aspects and unintended, if foreseeable, consequences of the Bill, I now wish to talk about another aspect of passivity—passive devolution, which is what the...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...as I would like to discuss the figures with the hon. Gentleman, I want to concentrate on the Bill. I want to ask the House whether, before it is enthusiastic in its desire to suppress unhealthy smoking, it will allow itself to damage the constitution of the United Kingdom. I wish to highlight the powers in the Government of Wales Act that the Bill wishes to amend. Clause 4(4) states that...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ..., the first Order in Council transferred 18 separate items of public policy or public administration. Item 7 deals with health and health services. To some extent, I accept that a Bill dealing with smoking touches on health and health services. We know that if there were no smoking anywhere in this country, that would benefit the national health service budget. We also know that it would...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...'s amendment, so he did not appreciate how limited and restricted the judicial oversight would be. To coin a phrase, I have no doubt that a cigarette paper could not be put between the antipathy to smoking and its consequences felt by the hon. Gentleman and me. However, irrespective of our views about smoking and its health effects, I have a duty as a Member of Parliament to ensure that we...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...for Bromley and Chislehurst has a copy. It provides factual information both about the national and devolved constitutional arrangements and about what has happened in relation to the banning of smoking in other jurisdictions. Given that that resource is available to me, I would be foolish not to apply my mind to it. Equally, if I have contacts with the Tobacco Manufacturers Association...

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

Mr Edward Garnier: ...Bill. My argument that the Government should delay agreeing to the Bill's Second Reading has nothing to do with the merits of the arguments for or against advertising, or of those for or against smoking—I happen to think that smoking is a disgusting and filthy habit—but it has everything to do with behaving in a communautaire sense, and of being acutely aware of our treaty...

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

Mr Edward Garnier: ...that it is difficult to make estimates of the sort that the hon. Member for Crawley (Laura Moffatt) wants. In the other place, Lord Hunt said that the anticipated decline in the prevalence of smoking as a result of the Bill was somewhere in a range between 0 per cent. and 5 per cent; he could not be more specific. He plumped for 2.5 per cent, because that was halfway between 0 per cent....

Orders of the Day — Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Bill (10 Mar 2000)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...whether it is relevant to the discussion about cold homes, I do not know. Clearly, a number of people who die during the winter are elderly and die of heart and lung diseases, partly as a result of smoking and possibly partly as a result of the cold. It is possible that the aggravation to their constitution caused by smoking was exacerbated by the cold, and vice versa—the effect of...

Points of Order (1 Nov 1999)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...it in order for Ministers and their supporters to abuse the courts for making decisions that they find politically inconvenient? The Government are entitled to their opinion on tobacco advertising and smoking; I agree that smoking is a danger to health. They are also entitled to appeal the decision made on Friday to stay their ban on advertising. However, are they entitled to resort to...

Orders of the Day — Opposition Day: Transport (21 Apr 1994)

Mr Edward Garnier: ...serve a useful transport purpose; it is environmentally beneficial. A huge number of trees have been planted alongside it, and Market Harborough itself has gained tremendously from the absence of smoking lorries queueing up in the high street and destroying the infrastructure, buildings and general pleasantness of an ancient market town. Would that Labour and the Liberal Democrats would do...