Results 1-19 of 19 for smoking speaker:Cheryl Gillan

Written Answers — Wales: Smoking (15 Jul 2008)

Cheryl Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what estimate he has made of the number of people in Wales who smoked in the latest year for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (3 Nov 2005)

Cheryl Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she plans to prohibit smoking in secure mental health units; and if she will make a statement.

Public Bill Committee: Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill: New Clause 10 - Fingerprinting (27 Oct 2005)

Cheryl Gillan: ...for Woking, with the exception of those that he made about myself. I, too, wish to thank both Ministers for the way in which they have conducted the proceedings on the Bill. Last night in the Smoking Room, I said to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality who has led on the Bill that I was impressed by his command of the brief. I now put that on the record. It is...

Public Bill Committee: Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill: New Clause 10 - Fingerprinting (25 Oct 2005)

Cheryl Gillan: ...for Woking, with the exception of those that he made about myself. I, too, wish to thank both Ministers for the way in which they have conducted the proceedings on the Bill. Last night in the Smoking Room, I said to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality who has led on the Bill that I was impressed by his command of the brief. I now put that on the record. It is...

Orders of the Day — Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill (25 Feb 2005)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...14 and 24. That study, which is I believe was published in an online version of the British Medical Journal, followed 2,500 young people living in Munich, Germany. It showed that regular cannabis smoking increased the risk of developing psychosis by 6 per cent. over four years. There was a substantially greater impact on young people who had already been identified by...

Public Bill Committee: Drugs Bill: New clause 1 - Inclusion of khat as a Class A drug (3 Feb 2005)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...representing beat officers believes that the downgrading of cannabis from a Class B to a Class C drug has left its members unclear about what to do about the rise in the numbers of people openly smoking marijuana on the street. They say that declassification has led to a casual culture of lawlessness and that police officers are provoked by people smoking joints and believing they are...

Public Bill Committee: Drugs Bill: New clause 1 - Inclusion of khat as a Class A drug (3 Feb 2005)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...the problem of public confusion on the legality of cannabis. The cursory evaluation of the campaign said that a survey of a representative sample of 14 to 70 year olds showed that 81 per cent. agreed that smoking cannabis was harmful. Although those results were evaluated for a campaign on or around 17 May 2004, even if we just start to cruise the internet and pick up the odd article, we...

Public Bill Committee: Drugs Bill: Clause 1 - Aggravated supply of controlled drug (27 Jan 2005)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...that leads to the roof on the 18th floor to sell drugs to as many as 20 children at a time. Some of the children come from . . . nearly a mile away. Residents regularly find burnt tin foil and yellowed smoking pipes made from soft drink bottles—the detritus from smoking crack cocaine. Children as young as 13 have been seen with the older dealers. They come to the block because it has...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Order (25 Jan 2005)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: I would like to know where the idea came from for this flexible, 24-hour licensing. The Minister has mentioned, although not by name, J.D. Wetherspoon, which has bravely made its decision to go for smoke-free zones. The chairman of Wetherspoon, however, said—I will not read the first part of the quote because it is not very complimentary to the Home Office—that certain people "in...

New Clause 10 — Victims of persons subject to hospital order with restriction order: representations: Clause 16 — Higher fixed penalty for repeated road traffic offences (27 Oct 2004)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...Report, 14 June 2004; Vol. 422, c. 540.] That allayed the many fears of those inside and outside Parliament. Indeed, so well did the Home Secretary camouflage his intentions and succeed in creating a smoke screen, that the trick that he performed on us led even the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) to praise him for ensuring that "muggers, not motorists" would pay for the...

Public Bill Committee: Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]: Schedule 7 - Minor and consequential amendments (1 Jul 2004)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...why they face a surcharge while the police are turning a blind eye and going easy on cannabis users and possessors. As the matter stands, the police face a problem. Cannabis users are blowing smoke in policemen's faces and challenging them, and establishing a pattern of behaviour and rules of engagement is a problem for the local policer force. The Minister should be very worried about...

Written Answers — Home Department: Cannabis (1 Jul 2004)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans there are for an awareness campaign to educate young people of the risk of pulmonary infections and respiratory cancer associated with cannabis smoking.

Written Answers — Health: Cannabis (29 Jun 2004)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action has been taken on the implications of cannabis smoking for respiratory health since the publication of the British Lung Foundation report, A Smoking Gun.

Written Answers — Home Department: Cannabis (29 Jun 2004)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans there are to repeat the longitudinal studies of cannabis smoking completed in the 1960s and 1970s to take account of the increased potency of today's cannabis.

Written Answers — Home Department: Cannabis (28 Jun 2004)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans there are to conduct further research into the link between cannabis smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Petitions: Drugs (2 Jun 1999)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...project, which educates youngsters between the ages of nine and 13 on the dangers of drugs. We need to get to our children long before they are in danger of taking drugs. I am a smoker, but I stopped smoking in March. I look on myself as taking a rest from smoking—it will just be longer between cigarettes. I can tell the House how difficult it has been for me to stop smoking, but I...

Bills Presented: Women (Equal Opportunities) (7 Mar 1996)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: .... The Government have also put a strategy in place to prevent premature deaths and ill health, including specific priorities and targets for women's health, covering breast and cervical cancer, smoking and alcohol. Women play a substantial part in our labour market. The Government fully recognise the crucial and increasing role that women play in the economy. Women now make up a larger...

Orders of the Day — Employment (Upper Age Limits in Advertisements) Bill (9 Feb 1996)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...very lucky, because God might have forgotten her, and she says that at least he does not seem to be in a great hurry to meet her. She is a woman after my own heart: it is rumoured that she gave up smoking at the age of 118. I listened very carefully to my right hon. Friend's plea for the standardisation of CVs. Any hon. Member present in the Chamber who has been interviewed or has...

Transport (Motorway Safety) (19 Apr 1995)

Mrs Cheryl Gillan: ...—often life-threatening—spray. At present, under the Road Traffic Act 1988, a vehicle can be stopped and tested for brakes, silencer, steering, noise, tyres, lights, excessive fumes, smoke or vapours. I wish to add to that all spray suppression devices, including wheel guards, valances, wheel flaps, air/water separators and any longitudinal strips or flaps of spray suppressant...