Results 1-6 of 6 for smoking speaker:Kate Hoey
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Cannabis (7 May 2008) has video
Kate Hoey: ...in this country, it sends a clear message and supports the many parents in my constituency who want to send the right signal to their children? It is important that we have now sent a message that smoking cannabis is wrong and harmful. We should get that message across and unite behind it.
- Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Fire Alarms: Standards (21 Apr 2008)
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what percentage of (a) battery-operated and (b) hard-wired smoke alarms were found to be defective in dwelling fires in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
- Zimbabwe (27 Jun 2005)
Kate Hoey: ...Killarney camp on the outskirts of Bulawayo, I saw the police attacking people's homes. Many had lived there for 20 or 25 years. Grotesque scenes of burning houses were spread across the landscape, smoke rising from the burning thatch. I watched as teams of police clubbed or bulldozed walls and brought corrugated iron roofs crashing to the ground. Later in Harare, when I met Morgan...
- Sport for All (27 Jun 1997)
Ms Kate Hoey: ...there are usually far fewer Members here for such debates, so it is nice to see some new faces. The Minister needs to tread carefully on the question of sponsorship by tobacco companies. I have always been anti-smoking; I hate smoking and would like it if no one smoked, but recognise that smoking is still within the law and that the Chancellor takes an enormous amount of money from...
- Dangerous Dogs Bill: Control of Dogs Not Otherwise Regulated (10 Jun 1991)
Ms Kate Hoey: ...first place, there is no opportunity to make people feel responsible. Until we start that, we shall not change people's attitudes. Ten years ago people had the attitude that it was all right to smoke where one liked, that it did not matter and that there was no such thing as risks from passive smoking. Gradually we have changed people's attitudes about that. Some people, such as the hon....
- Bills Presented: London Buses (20 May 1991)
Ms Kate Hoey: ...essential the bus is but their only solution is deregulation. Several measures would make people feel that the bus is a better option. We must modernise its image. Many people regard buses as old-fashioned, smoky and dirty, even though smoking is not allowed. It need not be so, and London Buses has new vehicles. Seats must be made more comfortable, good colour coding must be introduced,...