Results 1-20 of 21 for smoking speaker:David Heathcoat-Amory

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] — New Clause 2 — Commission of body to study the effects of Act (21 Oct 2002)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...-border shopping; a law and order problem, through the epidemic of smuggling through the white van trade; and a health problem, through the sale of smuggled cigarettes to youngsters, who take up smoking for the first time as a result. It is not just a question of advertising. This well-drafted new clause and the generality of the study are precisely concerned with looking at the whole...

Orders of the Day — Education and Industry (8 Dec 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ..., debated and passed; the muddle is that that contradicts all the other policies. There is an epidemic of smuggling into the country due to the Treasury's high tax policies. More than one in five cigarettes smoked in this country has been smuggled. The great majority of hand-rolling tobacco is smuggled, and, according to the Government's own figures, the problem is getting worse. We have...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (2 May 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...in this country has probably fallen during that time. That has benefited not Treasury revenue and the legitimate trade, but the smugglers and criminal gangs. The result is more smuggling and more smoking. We face not only a failed law and order policy, but a failed health policy.

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (2 May 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...health effect, but it is not what is happening. An increasing number of people are obtaining cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco from illegal, cheap sources. It is now estimated that 5 million smokers in this country routinely supply their everyday needs from the illegitimate market, in which the price has fallen rather than risen. Not only is that a failed health policy, because more...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (2 May 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...for selling cigarettes to under-age smokers. They are fined for selling cigarettes to people under the age of 16, but meanwhile the Government are implementing a policy that encourages under-age smoking because of the vast and growing illicit market operating throughout the country through uncontrolled outlets. Is it any wonder that smoking among young people is increasing again? The only...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (2 May 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: .... Gentleman wastes any more of the House's time by distorting my argument, may I remind him that I was making the point that it is no good simply harassing small shopkeepers to prevent under-age smoking when it is the Government who ought to be addressing the problem? The Government should stop running a policy that encourages the distribution of tobacco products in uncontrolled outlets,...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (2 May 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: Of course we are, but the Government must play their part. It is no good simply expecting the legitimate trade to bear the full burden of preventing under-age smoking when the Government are pulling in the opposite direction—and hypocritically urging action against small shopkeepers—when the Government themselves are responsible for a policy that is increasing the incidence of...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (17 Apr 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...the tax burden. The arithmetic is absolutely clear, but the Government have invented a new trick: a hypothetical average family that pays no indirect tax at all, spends no money and does not drive, smoke, drink, insure anything or move house. That family, supposedly, now has a lower tax burden. Perhaps he was referring to that.

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (17 Apr 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...to raise now is the excise duty increases on beer and tobacco. Smuggling of those products has become an epidemic. The Government's own figures show that more than one in five of the cigarettes smoked in the United Kingdom are smuggled in, and that 80 per cent. of the hand-rolling tobacco smoked here is similarly illegally imported. The Government have said in their own review document...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (23 Mar 2000)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...point? My hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale, West (Mr. Brady) mentioned tobacco. Tobacco smuggling has become something of an epidemic. The Government are doing nothing to suppress the smoking habit—the number of young people taking up smoking is rising—and the revenue is also being hit. The yield from tobacco duty in the current year is substantially lower than...

Energy Tax (20 Jul 1999)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...on its costs to British industry as a whole, it has made the rest of British industry uncompetitive too. All those increases in diesel taxes and other taxes are being made behind an environmental smoke screen, but the real reason is to raise revenue. Not content with what they have already done, the Government plan to raise another extra £1.75 billion. They claim that that is...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (10 Mar 1999)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...I know where it has gone: it has gone overseas or been lost through smuggling. In giving his reasons for increasing tobacco taxation, the Chancellor referred to the importance of dissuading young people from starting smoking. However, if they buy tobacco from uncontrolled outlets in clubs, pubs and car parks, they are more likely to take it up. When in opposition, the Prime Minister was...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Rates of Tobacco Products Duty (28 Apr 1998)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...The proposed increases widen the gap between continental rates of duty and our own, which will make the situation worse. The Financial Secretary said that there was a problem of young people taking up smoking, and, during our debate, other hon. Members have recognised the seriousness of that problem. If tobacco products are smuggled in, they are made available outside Government controls...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Rates of Tobacco Products Duty (28 Apr 1998)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...information and published a review on the incidence of tobacco duty. It reveals a marked regressivity about the tax. The report comments on the fact that increasing tax has a deterrent effect on smokers. I always knew that, but I had not realised the extent of it. That is intuitively rather obvious. It points out: It is mainly the better off (the top thirty per cent of householders by...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Rates of Tobacco Products Duty (28 Apr 1998)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...the hon. Gentleman been listening, he would have heard me quote from a report that reached exactly that conclusion, although it pointed out that price rises had a much greater effect in deterring smoking in better-off households than in poorer households. I am willing to repeat what I said when the hon. Gentleman was nodding off: it is obvious that, if one increases the price of something,...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (28 Apr 1998)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...glossy saying that we all have a right to know. It is obvious that we have a right to know only what the Government think that we ought to know. Although the smuggling and illegality in the smoking and drinks trade are important matters that concern the Committee, we clearly have no right to know the conclusions of the Customs and Excise review. That would not matter if the Prime Minister...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rates of Duty (23 Jan 1995)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...size and impact of health warnings. If anyone thinks that statutory controls are the answer, perhaps he could explain why the United Kingdom has a better record than Norway and Finland in reducing smoking in the very period since those countries introduced a statutory ban on advertising. The two European Community countries with the best record in reducing smoking—ourselves and the...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Rates of Duty (23 Jan 1995)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...to raise tobacco taxes by at least 3 per cent. in real terms. That is for revenue purposes and health reasons, since evidence shows that price is an important factor in persuading people to give up smoking. The increase came into effect from 6 pm on Budget day. New clause 4 increases tobacco duties by 3.7 per cent., other than for hand-rolling tobacco. The sole reason for that increase is...

Petition: Leigh Environmental Ltd. (28 Feb 1990)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...of each batch. The company has been prosecuted under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act. 1974 following the fire on the aerosol plant and also, in 1982, under the Clean Air Act 1968 for smoke emissions from the boiler plant. However, it has been the nuisance from odours that has caused the local residents most concern and has given rise to the largest number of complaints. There has...

Opposition Day: Environment (13 Nov 1989)

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory: ...our environmental monitoring arrangements are well established and comprehensive. For example, the national survey of air pollution was set up in 1961 and has registered a significant decrease in smoke and sulphur dioxide concentration in the past 30 years. The setting up of the agency would encourage the development of systems to provide comparable information in other Community...