Results 1-7 of 7 for smoking speaker:Beverley Hughes
- Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Foster Care (26 Nov 2008)
Beverley Hughes: .... The regulations require information about the health of the potential carer to be considered as part of this assessment, and while the regulations do not ban smokers from becoming foster carers, smoking is an issue which fostering providers would be expected to take into account as part of the approvals process. Standard 12.1 of the National Minimum Standards for Fostering Services...
- Teenage Pregnancies (29 Jan 2008)
Beverley Hughes: ...for Basingstoke (Mrs. Miller) outlined some of the consequences, with which we are all familiar. The infant mortality rate for children born to teenage mothers is 60 per cent. higher; the rate of smoking is three times as high; teenage mothers are much less likely to breastfeed; and the rate of post-natal depression, which my hon. Friend the Member for City of Durham mentioned, is three...
- Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Teenage Pregnancies (7 Dec 2006)
Beverley Hughes: ...years after the birth; The infant mortality rate for babies born to teenage mothers is 60 per cent. higher than for babies born to older mothers; Teenage mothers are three times more likely to smoke throughout their pregnancy, and 50 per cent less likely to breastfeed, than older mothers—both of which have negative health consequences for the child; Children of teenage mothers have a...
- Written Answers — Education and Skills: Sure Start (30 Nov 2005)
Beverley Hughes: ...or target level. It is therefore not possible to report progress of SSLPs against the SR02 target. PSA 2—Reduce by 6 per cent. percentage points the proportion of mothers continuing to smoke during pregnancy—2003–05 data shows that the two Torbay SSLPs saw a rise in smoking levels (Paignton—56 per cent. to 62 per cent. Torquay—30 per cent. to 37 per cent.)....
- Written Answers — Education and Skills: Sure Start (14 Nov 2005)
Beverley Hughes: Our target is to reduce the number of women in Sure Start local programme areas who smoke during pregnancy by 6 per cent. between 2003 and 2006. Up until March 2004 we have achieved a reduction of 1.4 per cent. Programmes carry out a wide range of activities to reduce smoking from work with pregnant mothers to smoke free homes initiatives" and preventative work with school children. Some...
- Written Answers — Home Department: Smoking (7 Mar 2003)
Ms Beverley Hughes: Smoking in the main Home Office buildings in central London is not permitted except in designated smoking rooms. The policy extends to other buildings outside central London, but is subject to local accommodation constraints for example, in rented buildings smoking may be banned by the landlord or major occupier. National No Smoking campaigns are regularly promoted. ''Stop smoking'' courses...
- Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [1st Allotted Day]: New Clause 8 — Compensation for depreciation of property value (11 Jun 2002)
Ms Beverley Hughes: ...planning law. Part 1 requires compensation to be paid where physical factors arising from the use of public works cause depreciation in land value. Those factors are noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, artificial lighting and so on. I do not believe, and I do not think that anyone could possibly believe, that any of those factors will arise from the building of accommodation centres...