Results 1-10 of 10 for smoking speaker:John Hayes
- Public Bill Committee: Education and Skills Bill: Clause 16 (19 Feb 2008)
John Hayes: ...that the gathering and exchange of that information is essential as part of the principal thrust of the Bill. However, I am not sure that we have heard that case put today. I think that we have had smoke and mirrors, and I do not think that that does this Committee or indeed this Bill any service. I do not know if the Minister wants to come back again on this point, but unless he does so I...
- Written Answers — Home Department: Smoking Ban (30 Jan 2007)
John Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost to his Department was of enforcing a smoking ban in 2005-06; and what the cost of providing support to staff wishing to give up smoking was in 2005-06.
- Written Answers — Education and Skills: Smoking (25 Jan 2006)
John Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what her policy is on smoking in publicly funded educational establishments.
- Written Answers — Health: Mobile Roadside Cafes (24 May 2005)
John Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the application to mobile roadside cafés of (a) smoking and (b) health and safety regulations relating to food preparation.
- Hospital-acquired Infections (2 Mar 2005)
Mr John Hayes: ...fallen steadily since 1999, but the Office for National Statistics has shown that the falling trend began in 1980 and has been sustained by improvements in lifestyle, particularly the reduction in smoking, improved diet and so on, rather than the extra funding of the past five years. In summary, the OECD judged the Government's policy on health and concluded that the extra spending had...
- Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 54 - Tests as to suitability for multiple occupation (27 Jan 2004)
Mr John Hayes: ...is proper consideration of washbasins, showers and bathrooms, areas of food storage, preparation and cooking, and laundry facilities and so on, but there is no mention of the safety equipment—smoke alarms are a good example—that might reasonably be expected in an HMO to deal with a fire hazard. It is true that considerations relating to fire hazards are dealt with extensively...
- Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 8 - Clause Guidance about inspections and enforcement action (22 Jan 2004)
Mr John Hayes: Will the Minister go as far as to say that the guidance will recommend smoke alarms, which are inexpensive and easy to fit, as a matter of course in those high-risk properties?
- Housing Bill (12 Jan 2004)
Mr John Hayes: ...and fire precaution, on which the hon. Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) commented? My hon. Friend the Member for Wealden (Charles Hendry) mentioned fire precautions and suggested proposals for smoke and fire alarms. I understand that such alarms are now quite advanced and could be implemented practically—I think that the hon. Member for Bolton, South-East also made that...
- Common Fisheries Policy (21 Nov 2002)
Mr John Hayes: ...only way that we can really offer them a glimmer of hope is by having the courage to take control, rather than having to get involved in these rather grubby deals that are done behind the scenes in smoke-filled rooms without the fishermen being present, as we have already heard. [Interruption.] Let me just deal with this point once and for all. If the Prime Minister was really concerned...
- Business of the House (17 Feb 2000)
Mr John Hayes: ...with an asterisk, and additional funding with a "B" for bogus, or even an "L" for something unparliamentary? That would allow hon. Members to determine whether it was real extra money or simply smoke and mirrors.