Results 1-20 of 24 for smoking speaker:Nick Harvey

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Portcullis House: Smoking (28 Oct 2009)

Nick Harvey: The smoking shelter is forecast to cost £49,000.

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Portcullis House: Fire Alarms (20 Jul 2009)

Nick Harvey: The information requested is as follows: Cause of evacuation alarm actuation May 2005 to December 2007 January to December 2008 January to June 2009 Fire 4 0 1 Smoke 0 0 1 Fire drills 3 1 1 Alarm testing 0 0 1 Working on alarm system 4 0 0 System defect 11 1 0 Other(1) 10 2 2 Total 32 4 6 (1) Includes operation of manual call points...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Portcullis House: Fire Alarms (28 Jan 2009)

Nick Harvey: ...fire alarm engineers are investigating the reason the system would not accept the re-set. To minimise disruption to the occupants, a system is operated in Portcullis House whereby upon actuation of smoke/beam/video smoke detectors outside the atrium, the parliamentary fire section has 15 minutes to identify and resolve an incident before the evacuation alarm is automatically activated....

[Mr. Mike Weir in the Chair] — Management and Services (House of Commons) (18 Oct 2007)

Nick Harvey: .... I am always very grateful when it is the hon. Gentleman and not me who gets stuck with answering for some of the tricky decisions. In particular, that Committee took the difficult decisions about smoking. My hon. Friend the Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) said that he hoped that smokers would not be given too unsatisfactory a deal. I do not think that they have...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Smoking (21 Jun 2007)

Nick Harvey: As the minutes published on the internet http://www.parliament.uk/about_commons/house_of_commons_comm ission_hccfm120307.cfm show, the Commission discussed smoking on 12 March 2007. The policy on the subject is set out in a written answer to the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Doran) on 20 March 2008, Official Report , column 757W. The Health Act 2006 introduces a ban on smoking in...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Palace of Westminster: Smoking (11 Jun 2007)

Nick Harvey: As I said in my reply to the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Doran) on 20 March 2007, Official Report, column 757W: "The Health Act 2006 introduces a ban on smoking in workplaces and enclosed or substantially enclosed public places from 1 July 2007. While the Act does not formally apply on the parliamentary estate, the Commission, on the advice of the Administration Committee, has...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Smoking (20 Mar 2007)

Nick Harvey: The Health Act 2006 introduces a ban on smoking in workplaces and enclosed or substantially enclosed public places from 1 July 2007. While the Act does not formally apply on the parliamentary estate, the Commission, on the advice of the Administration Committee, has decided that the House should comply with the principles of the legislation, as it is not desirable that those who work on or...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Lifts: House of Commons (21 Feb 2007)

Nick Harvey: Lifts HoP 15 and HoP 77 serve the east side of the Palace of Westminster (opposite the Members' Smoking Room on the Principal floor and Strangers Bar on the ground floor). The lifts, while adjacent, have different functions. HoP 77 in addition to being a Members only lift has been converted to be accessible by wheelchairs and serves the ground, Principal, first and second floors. HoP 15...

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Smoking (27 Nov 2006)

Nick Harvey: The Administration Committee has recommended that the House should apply the smoke-free regulations by analogy. This would entail all work areas and enclosed spaces becoming smoke-free. The Commission accepts this recommendation in principle, and will decide on the detailed application when the regulations are available.

Written Answers — House of Commons Commission: Smoking (25 Jul 2006)

Nick Harvey: I understand that the Administration Committee has had a preliminary discussion about the application of the principles of the smoking provisions in the Health Bill to the parliamentary estate, and that it will consider the matter further in the autumn in the light of the draft regulations recently published by the Department of Health. The Commission awaits the Administration Committee's advice.

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons Commission: Smoking (28 Feb 2006)

Nick Harvey: The Administration Committee has asked for a paper on that subject and the Commission expects to reconsider the policy on smoking on the House of Commons estate once recommendations have been received from that Committee.

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons Commission: Smoking (28 Feb 2006)

Nick Harvey: ...but those are the sort of issues that the Administration Committee will have the chance to think about. The estate—including the vast majority of the catering outlets—is already largely smoke-free, but I am sure that there is room to go further and we await the recommendations of the Administration Committee.

House of Commons Commission (Annual Report) (3 Nov 2005)

Nick Harvey: ...eligible to vote. We hope that that will begin to be sent out in the course of 2006. Estate management entails many different issues, which come to the Commission. Those have recently included smoking, and earlier in the year the Commission took a significant further step to make the estate more smoke-free, not least out of awareness of the secondary smoking threat to its employees, the...

House of Commons Commission (Annual Report) (3 Nov 2005)

Nick Harvey: ...have a clearer idea of how much work the role involved for him—answering oral and written questions, and dealing with various press inquiries, which I recently found myself doing on cleaners, smoking, MPs' expenses and so on. Archy Kirkwood's predecessor was my right hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith). It seems to be the lot of the Liberal Democrat Member to...

Licensing Bill [Lords] (24 Mar 2003)

Mr Nick Harvey: ...assessment from the Secretary of State that, with the benefit of hindsight, she wished that the Bill had been subjected to pre-legislative scrutiny. If it had, some of the problems would have been smoked out earlier and Ministers and officials would have had a chance to address them. I invite the Secretary of State to go further and acknowledge that it was also a mistake to introduce...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Penalties (13 Feb 2001)

Mr Nick Harvey: ...limited: it relies on existing legislation and regulatory frameworks to control a number of the media involved, but nevertheless is likely to add a substantial weapon to the campaign against smoking. No one, surely, can doubt the role played by smoking in deteriorating public health in the United Kingdom and abroad. Smoking is connected with a range of diseases and other conditions;...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Clause 1 - Meaning of ``tobacco advertisement'' and ``tobacco product''. (30 Jan 2001)

Mr Nick Harvey: ...I had heard what she meant by ``specialist tobacco product''. I had no idea what she meant. I thought that my mind was going to be opened to a range of accessories to cigarettes, cigar and pipe smoking about which I knew nothing. I was astonished to discover that she seemed to be defining something as common as a cigar or pipe tobacco as a specialist tobacco product. I had imagined that...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Nick Harvey: It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson). I echo the words with which he concluded his remarks. This is a serious subject, since the effect of smoking on a number of health conditions should not be underestimated. The most obvious of those conditions is cancer, but there can be no doubt that smoking also has a profound impact on cardiac health,...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Nick Harvey: ...have a positive effect on consumption. He studied the impact of advertising bans that had been imposed elsewhere, and concluded: In each case the banning of advertising was followed by a fall in smoking on a scale which cannot be reasonably attributed to other factors. As I said earlier, that argument was accepted by the then Health Secretary, the right hon. Member for South-West Surrey...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (22 Jan 2001)

Mr Nick Harvey: ...to determine whether the pollution was greater outside or inside the bus. As I looked around at my fellow passengers, I noticed that I was the only person on the entire upper deck of the bus not smoking a cigarette. The fact is that, as the going has got tougher in the developed world markets, the tobacco industry is devoting more of its efforts to selling into developing countries. There...