Results 1-9 of 9 for smoking speaker:James Gray

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Topical Questions (19 Jan 2009) has video

James Gray: Given that some 70 per cent. of 11 to 17-year-olds who are foolish enough to smoke buy their cigarettes from vending machines across England, it was rather odd that vending machines were specifically excluded from the recent consultation on the removal of cigarettes from public view in newsagents' shops. What representations did the Secretary of State have on the subject of cigarette vending...

Sport and Leisure (North Wiltshire) (13 Dec 2006)

James Gray: ...used only in the most extreme cases in which children could not otherwise be persuaded to get their weight down, but NICE also said that obesity in this country is now more damaging to health than smoking, heavy drinking or poverty. That is amazing. NICE goes on to say that city planners, employers and schools must take steps to help people to exercise regularly. That would include...

Hunting Bill: Clause 1 — Hunting wild mammals with dogs (16 Nov 2004)

Mr James Gray: ...been plenty of noises off. The Prime Minister has made it plain in briefings and elsewhere that he favours a compromise, and the Secretary of State for Health—when he is not talking about smoking—has made it plain that he, too, would welcome a compromise. All the noises off have said that the Government want some kind of compromise, but try as we might, formally and informally,...

Written Answers — Health: Milking Parlours (4 Oct 2004)

Mr James Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what regulation requires the display of "No Smoking" signs on a farm's milking parlours.

Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill (15 Sep 2004)

Mr James Gray: .... We are grown-ups; we can decide these things for ourselves, according to our own conscience. We do not need the Labour party to lay down the law on the use of dogs, or on shooting, fishing, smoking in public places and a whole variety of other things. We want the ability to make up our own mind on these matters, using our conscience and our knowledge of the countryside.

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Mr James Gray: ...cruelty. Most modern livestock practices would not pass the Minister's test of comparative cruelty and utility, and nor, as several hon. Members have said, would halal butchery, boxing, cigarette smoking and a variety of other activities. Why is the test applied only to hunting with hounds?

Defence Policy (14 Feb 2002)

Mr James Gray: .... Will he give us an absolute assurance of decent funding? That did not happen after the SDR. If the Green Paper is not properly funded, it will be like so much that the Labour party does—all smoke and mirrors. The Government seem to think that saying something is just as good as doing it. We do not want more questions, more national debate, and more mucking around with fancy bits of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: British Beef (30 Jul 1998)

Mr James Gray: ...discordant note when I say that I hope that he will show more interest in and concern for the beef industry and beef producers than his predecessor did, and that he will find the way from the Smoking Room to the Chamber for important debates. The beef industry is deeply disappointed by the lack of progress towards lifting the ban, despite the Government's constant boasts about their Euro...

Estimates Day: Beef Industry (14 Jul 1998)

Mr James Gray: ...of Agriculture has failed to appear. It may be said that it is not his role to answer such a debate, but he failed to turn up when we discussed the beef on the bone ban. We discovered him in the Smoking Room, with a large glass of brandy and a cigar in hand, while the biggest crisis to face British beef farmers for many years was being debated in the House. It would have been nice if he...