Results 1-14 of 14 for smoking speaker:Keith Hill

Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 128 - Duty to provide copy of home information pack on request (10 Feb 2004)

Mr Keith Hill: ...to be anything in the home information pack that would cause problems if disclosed. One wonders sometimes what the point is of having a Parliamentary Private Secretary, especially one with a smoking habit. However, the job has been done. The Ipswich cavalry hoves into view over the horizon to come to the rescue—excellent. Clause 133 restricts the content of the pack to information...

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Brent Housing Partnership (29 Jan 2004)

Mr Keith Hill: ...(BHP), the Arms Length Management Organisation that manages 13,500 tenanted and leasehold homes owned by the London Borough of Brent. BHP reports that 34 per cent. of these homes now have smoke alarms, 23 per cent. have double glazing, and that planned works will increase these figures to 80 per cent. by April 2006 and 32 per cent. by September 2004 respectively. The hon. Member may wish...

Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 193 - HMOs: certain converted blocks of flats (27 Jan 2004)

Mr Keith Hill: ...and are occupied by elderly or otherwise vulnerable people. The health and safety of the occupiers of such blocks are frequently a cause of concern. Such houses are often not fitted with adequate smoke detection equipment: the Building Regulations 1991 require alarms to be mains-fitted, and thus always working. I have referred to the Entec report on fire safety, which was published in...

Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 44 - Licensing of HMOs to which this Part applies (22 Jan 2004)

Mr Keith Hill: ...on landlords under licensing arrangements will ensure that minimum standards of management are met and maintained by, for example, ensuring that gas and electrical appliances are safe, and that smoke alarms are maintained in proper working order. I accept that the management of some smaller HMOs may be a concern. In areas where such concerns are widespread, licensing could offer a...

Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 8 - Clause Guidance about inspections and enforcement action (22 Jan 2004)

Mr Keith Hill: No, I do not think that I am in a position to include them as a matter of course. However, certification for mandatory HMO licensing will require evidence that smoke alarms are in place; that is already in the Bill. We are talking about the generality of stock. Part 1 begins by stating that local authorities have a responsibility for the good condition of all stock in their district. We must...

Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 8 - Clause Guidance about inspections and enforcement action (22 Jan 2004)

Mr Keith Hill: ...in part 2 on mandatory licensing of HMOs—specifically, that there should be an annual return by the landlord of an HMO regarding proper certification of gas, electrical appliances and smoke alarms. That is set out in schedule 4.

Public Bill Committee: Housing Bill: Clause 2 - Meaning of ''category 1 hazard'' and (20 Jan 2004)

Mr Keith Hill: ...to fire is people over the age of 60, but the young are also at risk. Impairment to mobility clearly increases vulnerability in the event of a fire. The most common cause of death from a fire is smoke inhalation. An inappropriately sited heater or cooker, or defective heating, might ignite clothes drying in a room if the dwelling lacks a clothes-drying area. Disrepair to walls and the...

Housing Bill (12 Jan 2004)

Mr Keith Hill: ...Conditions on landlords under licensing will ensure that minimum standards of management are met and maintained, for example, by ensuring that there are safe gas and electrical appliances and that smoke alarms are in proper working order. I can no longer resist my hon. Friend the Member for Edmonton (Mr. Love), who is a doughty campaigner on housing issues. I give way to him.

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: House Fires (20 Nov 2003)

Mr Keith Hill: Housing associations in England are required by the Housing Corporation through their Scheme Development Standards to fit smoke alarms in all new homes provided with Social Housing Grant as a condition of funding. Information on the number ofsmoke alarms fitted by individual housing associations to their existing stock is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Motorway Construction (EU Policy) (1 May 2001)

Mr Keith Hill: ...effect on the value of properties some distance away. There are inevitably some restrictions on the grounds for compensation. The adverse effects considered are noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, artificial lighting and the discharge of any solid or liquid substance. The effects must be attributable to a newly constructed road, not to the increased use of an existing road. The claim...

Orders of the Day — Transport Bill: Air Quality (9 May 2000)

Mr Keith Hill: ...in February. On the development and enforcement of AQMA action plans, let me say that local authorities can use their existing powers and controls, such as local air pollution control, domestic smoke control, transport and land use planning, to implement their action plans for achieving the air quality objectives. Authorities may also, for example, wish to use the local transport plan...

Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill (13 Mar 1996)

Mr Keith Hill: ...Railtrack's flotation? It is not without reason, therefore, that we are suspicious of the Government's intentions—all the more so in this case. After all, there has hardly been an absence of smoke about the Government's preference for privatisation of the tube system. My hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame, North referred to the story in early February in The Independent...

Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill (13 Mar 1996)

Mr Keith Hill: ...the First Secretary of State. The Independent was able to find a number of London Conservative Members who were ready to justify the scheme, so it is hardly news to them. There is, as they say, no smoke without fire. Judging from Tory Members' interventions, the privateers are snapping at the Minister's heels, despite his disavowals. Frankly, as a London Labour Member of Parliament I am...

Orders of the Day — Air Pollution (London) (20 Jul 1994)

Mr Keith Hill: ...in London. In London, road vehicles have been estimated to contribute 75 per cent. of nitrogen dioxides —which also play a major role in ozone formation—some 95 per cent. of black smoke and virtually 100 per cent. of carbon monoxide. In other words, if we are to improve air quality, to improve the condition of those with respiratory illnesses and, in practice, save lives, our...