Results 1-8 of 8 for smoking speaker:Geoff Hoon

Business of the House (16 Feb 2006)

Geoff Hoon: ...hope that I shall not be required to visit every constituency to which right hon. and hon. Members are gracious enough to invite me, but I found the visit very interesting. As for the free vote on smoking, I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would congratulate the Government on delivering more than their manifesto commitment. Governments are usually criticised if they...

Business of the House (16 Feb 2006)

Geoff Hoon: ...it is not formally subject to the legislation, the House should apply the decision that we have taken for other people to our own arrangements here. I look forward to suggestions as to what the Smoking Room will be called in future.

Business of the House (17 Nov 2005)

Geoff Hoon: ...for them. There is a small minority party that has a vested interest in the matter, but I would have thought that most other Opposition Members were content with the present arrangements. On the smoking ban, the arrangements that the Government will put before the House were agreed in the Labour manifesto, on which my hon. Friend and I were elected and pledged to support.

Business of the House (10 Nov 2005)

Geoff Hoon: ...manifestos that they set out to the public. The Labour manifesto on which he and I were elected was very specific about the compromise that is necessary to protect people's health from secondary smoking. It is not as though the manifesto was in any way in doubt on that issue. I respect my hon. Friend's efforts to move the debate along beyond the terms of the manifesto, but he must give me...

Business of the House (27 Oct 2005)

Geoff Hoon: ...is a difficult issue. No one is pretending that these issues cannot be resolved sensibly. The issue is one of balancing the freedom of individuals not to suffer unwarranted exposure to cigarette smoke against the interests of not turning those people who want to smoke into pariahs in our society. That was put extremely well by the shadow Leader of the House when he made that observation,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (26 Oct 2005)

Geoff Hoon: ...great detail, because of course this is an important issue that affects everyone in the country, and it is important that we get the right balance between the needs of those who want to continue to smoke, as they are entitled to do in private, and the needs of the community, who clearly do not want to be affected by other people's harmful smoke. That is the balance that we are seeking to...

Business of the House (26 May 2005)

Geoff Hoon: The Government agree with my hon. Friend about the importance of the matter, especially as far as it affects those who work in places where they might be affected by other people's smoke, and that was why we included a Bill to deal with the issue in the Queen's Speech. I am thus confident that the House will have the opportunity to debate the matter during this parliamentary Session.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Territorial Army (23 Jun 2003)

Mr Geoff Hoon: I do not think that anyone suggested that this was an example of a smoking gun. It has rightly been suggested that this was a gun and that the mobile laboratories were wholly consistent with the description of mobile laboratories given by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his evidence to the United Nations Security Council. That remains the position as far as coalition forces are concerned.