Results 1-20 of 24 for smoking speaker:Harriet Harman

Business of the House (11 Dec 2008) has video

Harriet Harman: I agree with my hon. Friend that it is a serious issue when people who need wheelchair access have to go through a fog of tobacco smoke. Perhaps the shadow Leader of the House, other members of the House of Commons Commission and I can consider that matter.

Business of the House (3 Jul 2008) has video

Harriet Harman: I welcome the fact that my hon. Friend has raised the issue of the effect on public health of ending smoking in public places. We need to make further progress on this important public health issue. This is definitely a job for the nanny state.

Business of the House (13 Mar 2008)

Harriet Harman: Important light has been shed on that matter, because national no smoking day has fallen during this week. I congratulate my hon. Friend on the work that he has led, which has fed into Government policy and is saving lives. I will bring his further points to the attention of Ministers.

Business of the House (15 Nov 2007)

Harriet Harman: I pay tribute to my hon. Friend's persistent campaigning for better public health, which is ensuring that there is less damage to the health of people who take up smoking and continue to smoke. I will draw his comments to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health.

Business of the House (5 Jul 2007)

Harriet Harman: The smoking ban in public places is important for public health and we all want to play our part in ensuring that the ban is effective. On my way here this morning, I saw somebody wearing a "smoking ban enforcement" high visibility jacket. So those people are out on the streets. The point that my hon. Friend raises should probably be raised with the Serjeant at Arms. I would suggest that she...

Written Answers — Solicitor-General: Smoking in the Workplace (3 Jun 2003)

Ms Harriet Harman: holding answer 7 March 2003 All of the Departments for which the Attorney General holds ministerial responsibility have adopted policies forbidding smoking except in designated areas.

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 49 - Meaning of ''terminating ruling'' (25 Feb 2003)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...objective: to give the prosecution an opportunity to appeal against judges' terminating rulings. It is a simple objective, but, as I expected, the diligent and experienced Opposition team have smoked out the matters of concern in these clauses. First, there are issues of principle, secondly there is the issue of whether the measures will work in practice, and thirdly there is an issue...

Children and Young Persons (Protection Against Tobacco) Bill (18 Jan 1991)

Ms Harriet Harman: Does the hon. Lady challenge the medical and scientific evidence on the strong link between smoking and heart disease? Perhaps she will make it clear to the House whether she is the one hon. Member present today who does not accept all the medical and scientific evidence, not only from this country but from abroad? Does she accept that evidence, or does she take a different view?

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Products (Advertising) (28 Nov 1990)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...in their records. I have two criticisms on that score. First, the question for us is whether it is a good idea to support the measure. Secondly, I question the relevance of relating advertising and smoking levels in a vacuum. Surely we should relate also price and health education, for example, which have an effect on the consumption of tobacco. I think that the Minister trivialised the...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Products (Advertising) (28 Nov 1990)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...there are many other variables. Advertising is only one piece of evidence and should not be taken in isolation. We have nothing to be complacent about. Yes, we have reduced tobacco consumption and smoking in this country, but it is still an immense public health issue, a killer and a disabler. I do not want to hear Conservative Members saying how great our record is when our national...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Products (Advertising) (28 Nov 1990)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...the tobacco industry provide it? It does not do so out of the goodness of its heart, but because it knows that that sponsorship sells cigarettes. The Government spend about £5 million a year on anti-smoking education. It is ludicrous that the Government should spend taxpayers' money on such education while allowing the tobacco industry to spend £100 million on advertising. All...

Good Health (20 Jul 1990)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...but many deaths from them could be prevented. We know much more now about the causes of disease and of accidents, and about their prevention. We know of the link between alcohol and liver disease, smoking and lung cancer, poverty and ill health. That knowledge places a moral obligation on the Government, which they should discharge by setting targets for preventive medicine and...

Good Health (20 Jul 1990)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...the manufacture, importing, sale and supply of tobacco products, accounts for many jobs in this country. However, the Department of Health should not have to pick up the pieces of illness caused by smoking while the Department of Trade and Industry is subsidising the tobacco industry in this country.

Good Health (20 Jul 1990)

Ms Harriet Harman: I agree with my hon. Friend. The Government should have an honest and coherent approach to smoking across all Departments. Smoking cannot be dangerous in this country but safe in the third world. Different Departments should not be pulling in different directions. There should be more resources for health education targeted at smokers and to prevent people from taking up smoking. We need...

Good Health (20 Jul 1990)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...It seems that she is going to try to avoid that point. However, I hope that she will consider the matter. There must be a named individual in each health and local authority to co-ordinate action. Smoking control plans should be part of every local and health authority's strategy. There has been a great advance in child immunisation, as several hon. Members have said. However, there...

Good Health (20 Jul 1990)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...measures against glaucoma, diabetes, brain tumours and many other ailments. The hon. Member for Twickenham seems to appreciate that, if the price of a packet of fags goes up, fewer people will smoke. Yet he seems to think that, if a charge is slapped on eye tests and teeth checks, people will continue to go to the optician and the dentist. That does not make sense. Does the Minister share...

National Health Service (1 Nov 1989)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...they will be expected to take on more patients, to perform minor surgery, to carry out regular checks on the elderly, to carry out more immunisation and more childhood screening, to run anti-smoking clinics, alcohol control clinics and well person clinics, and to advise on diet, exercise and stress. As the hon. Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Morris) pointed out, they will be expected...

Smoking in Public Places (8 May 1989)

Ms Harriet Harman: I welcome the EEC document on passive smoking, but I am disappointed that the Minister has reminded the House that the document allows this country to continue with voluntary methods for segregating smokers from non-smokers. Those who have been concerned about this issue, and some hon. Members who spoke on the motion prior to our previous debate on the King's Cross Railways Bill and the...

Smoking in Public Places (8 May 1989)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...that it supports the idea put forward in the document and that it will proceed to legislation. In fact, the document has been watered down; all it says is that it would be a good idea if people had smoke-free zones. I feel, therefore, that it is not worth the hon. Gentleman getting hot under the collar about—would that it were. On 25 January the Prime Minister spoke at the launch of...

Smoking in Public Places (8 May 1989)

Ms Harriet Harman: ...EEC document. This is no more than a document urging a situation with which everyone would agree. My point is that the Government should go on from that to legislate to protect non-smokers from smoking in the workplace, restaurants, commercial transport, hospitals and schools, and situations where they cannot escape from smokers and the ensuing health risks. I agree with the independent...