Results 1-18 of 18 for smoking speaker:Peter Hain

Point of Order: Welsh Affairs (1 Mar 2007)

Peter Hain: ...on low incomes with chronic illnesses who are currently deterred from finding jobs by the cost of their prescriptions. From 2 April, another landmark Welsh Labour policy will come into force: the ban on smoking in all enclosed public spaces and workplaces, three months ahead of England, protecting workers from second-hand smoke. In our schools, class sizes are down, with 1,700 more...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Legislation: Public Consultation (15 Jan 2007)

Peter Hain: ...Recovery of Health Services Charges (NI) Order 2006 Water and Sewerage Services (Miscellaneous Provisions) (NI) Order 2006 Victims and Survivors (NI) Order 2006 Rates (Amendment) (NI) Order 2006 Smoking (NI) Order 2006 In the same period for a variety of reasons, prior public consultation was not carried out on the following Northern Ireland Acts and Orders in Council: Acts Electoral...

Written Answers — Wales: Consultations (25 May 2006)

Peter Hain: ...last year on the "Better Governance for Wales" White Paper. The cost of this was £23,462.54. We also contributed to a joint consultation with the Department of Health seeking views on banning smoking in enclosed public places, and to a joint consultation with the National Assembly for Wales on the Commissioner for Old People.

Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill (9 Jan 2006)

Peter Hain: ...will still be in charge. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman is not opposing the NHS Redress Bill, which includes a framework clause to give the Assembly full powers to determine a ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces. I am surprised that he is not up in arms about that, although perhaps he will be now that I have suggested it. Since 1999, legislation that has gone through the House...

Business of the House (3 Mar 2005)

Mr Peter Hain: I applaud my hon. Friend for bringing forward her Bill to seek to restrict smoking in public places. It will encourage the policy that the Government have announced, and which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has promoted through the public health White Paper, of ensuring that passive smoking does not lead to the injury, ill health and death that it currently causes, and...

Written Answers — Wales: Smoking (18 Nov 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: The Government recognise that in taking forward the public health agenda on smoking in public places it will be important to provide a legislative framework to address plans in Wales in this respect. The Assembly has asked an all-party committee to consider the issue. That committee is expected to report in May.

Business of the House (21 Oct 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...will be addressed. My hon. Friend will be encouraged by the fact that there is now a serious debate about how we strike a balance between individual rights and public health in respect of both smoking and passive smoking.

Business of the House (14 Oct 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: I agree with my hon. Friend that both passive and active smoking are serious health issues. The Irish experience will be very interesting, as has been the experience in New York and other parts of the world. We have some catching up to do and my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Health and the Prime Minister are both seized of that. My hon. Friend will be encouraged to note that...

Business of the House (17 Jun 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: ...health and, indeed, we are doing so. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has launched a major consultation, which includes questions about what action could be taken to tackle smoking, and second-hand smoking in particular. That has been extended to the end of the month and one of the options is the introduction of legislation to ban smoking in public places. My hon....

Written Answers — Wales: Smoking Ban (9 Jun 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: My hon. Friend and I have regular discussions with colleagues across Government and with the Assembly about a number of issues, including those relating to smoking.

Business of the House (20 May 2004)

Mr Peter Hain: I am very sympathetic to my hon. Friend's policy points on smoking. As a non-smoker myself, I am well aware of its impact on the health of smokers, and indeed of the danger of passive smoking. That is why the Secretary of State for Health has embarked on a consultation exercise, and why the issue is being debated up and down the country in the big conversation. The idea is to discuss how...

Business of the House (27 Nov 2003)

Mr Peter Hain: ...the Committee as a whole are keen to hear the views of hon. Members and will respond to them. The Chairman has assured me that that will happen. He listened to hon. Members' views in respect of the Smoking Room, where the hours that were originally proposed have been readjusted but the same cost savings achieved. I put this point to the House, because it is an important matter for hon....

Business of the House (30 Oct 2003)

Mr Peter Hain: ...of his leader and his Chief Whip, too. I wish him every luck in the forthcoming reshuffle. I see that his party's short experiment with democracy has given way to leaders once again emerging from smoke-filled rooms—a Magic Circle method of choosing a leader that I thought it had abandoned 40 years ago. On the right hon. Gentleman's specific points, I share his thoughts and sympathies...

Business of the House (30 Oct 2003)

Mr Peter Hain: ..., I welcome representations from my hon. Friend and others about the way in which things could be improved. There are many associated issues. For example, I discovered the other day that the Smoking Room is being closed prematurely. Members who want to go for a drink or simply want to spend the evening there find themselves shut out, perhaps only an hour after the last vote. That does not...

Written Answers — Wales: Smoking in the Workplace (5 Mar 2003)

Mr Peter Hain: My Department occupies two buildings. In London smoking is not permitted anywhere in the building during normal working hours. In Cardiff, where we are tenants of the National Assembly of Wales, smoking is permitted only in one designated smoking room.

McMaster Family (BNFL) (7 Feb 2001)

Mr Peter Hain: ...of chromosome abnormalities found were not unusual in a man of Mr. McMaster's age--he was 68 years old at the time--and raised levels can be due to exposure to chemicals, medication or cigarette smoke, in addition to ionising radiation. Repeat blood tests were carried out by Westlakes research institute and the National Radiological Protection Board in 1997. As in the earlier 1990...

Miners' Compensation Scheme (6 Feb 2001)

Mr Peter Hain: ...scheme was a no-fault scheme negotiated between the solicitors and British Coal. The levels of compensation took into account benefit received, so the exemption applied. On the matter of smoking and damages, plenty of personal injury case law in other industries shows that courts consider smoking when fixing damages for lung injury. For example, awards have been reduced in cases of...

Business of the House (7 Nov 1991)

Mr Peter Hain: ...from New Zealand shows that, when the New Zealand Government mounted a nationwide television and publicity campaign advising mothers to put their children to sleep on their backs or sides, not to smoke and to breast-feed, the number of cot deaths was cut by half. Although the British Government accept that evidence, they have refused to fund a nationwide publicity campaign. Five children...