Results 1-20 of 21 for smoking speaker:John Hutton

Written Answers — Defence: Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations (2 Mar 2009)

John Hutton: ... 24 February 2009 The MOD does not hold information on NATO forces expenditure of phosphorus in Afghanistan in the last two years. NATO forces in Afghanistan use phosphorus munitions to produce a smoke screen to provide cover and thus protection for troops on the battlefield, and not in an anti-personnel capacity.

Written Answers — Defence: Ammunition (23 Feb 2009)

John Hutton: In Afghanistan, white phosphorus munitions are routinely used to protect troops on operations by producing a smoke screen to provide cover. Records show white phosphorus munitions were last used for the same purpose in Iraq in 2005. In accordance with the UN third convention on conventional weapons, UK training in the use of white phosphorus emphasises that it should be used solely for its...

Oral Answers to Questions — Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Departmental Advertising (28 Jun 2005)

John Hutton: ...of Information spent about £167 million last year on media. If we were to reduce that spending by £200 million there would be nothing whatsoever to spend on our campaigns to help people give up smoking and to recruit more soldiers, sailors and Air Force personnel to the armed forces. We would not spend anything on campaigns against drink-driving or a range of other campaigns that...

Health Care Targets (27 Oct 2003)

Mr John Hutton: ...Gentleman four examples in which we can say clearly that those targets are about improving health outcomes, which is the point and purpose of the work that we are doing: first, reducing the rate of smoking in the population—there is a clear evidence base for that, and it will improve the healthy lives of millions of people in Britain—and, secondly, increasing the proportion of...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 1 - NHS foundation trusts (13 May 2003)

Mr John Hutton: ...remove it. I do not think that I can be clearer than that. The hon. Member for West Chelmsford did not hear all the debate, as I understand he nipped out for a fag. Let me remind him of the NHS smoking helpline—0800 169 0169—which he should call straight away.

Written Answers — Health: Fire Incidents (8 May 2003)

Mr John Hutton: ...number of occasions when fire services attended NHS sites. As such, it includes incidents of varying degrees of severity, with the vast majority resulting from circumstances such as burnt toast, smoke or steam from cooking and contractor activity.

Written Answers — Health: Coronary Heart Disease (25 Feb 2003)

Mr John Hutton: ...to support primary care in developing CHD registers. These are a key tool to enable systematic identification and treatment of people with, or at high risk of developing, CHD. The PCT also provides a smoking cessation service. Figures available are combined for Barking and Havering and in 2001–01, 318 people successfully quit, whilst in 2001–02 there were 502. International...

Written Answers — Health: Voluntary Organisations and Charities (7 Nov 2002)

Mr John Hutton: The Department's Ministers have met the following voluntary organisations and charities since the beginning of June: Action on Smoking and Health British Association for Adoption and Fostering Barrow Cadbury Trust Cancer Research UK Cystic Fybrosis Trust Dementia Services Collaborative Diabetes UK Disability Rights Commission Doctor Patient Partnership Empower Epilepsy Action Epilepsy...

Written Answers — Health: Health Council (23 Jul 2002)

Mr John Hutton: ...presented a draft directive on the safety of tissues and cells, to complement the current one on blood safety, as well as one on traditional medicines. There were also two recommendations: one on smoking prevention and tobacco control and another on the reduction of risks associated with drug dependence. Details of these and other agenda items are set out in the table which will be placed...

Health Inequalities (Easington) (19 Jun 2002)

Mr John Hutton: ...widely available throughout the NHS, and will undoubtedly yield a long-term dividend in all our constituencies. My hon. Friend also mentioned the programmes to support people who want to give up smoking—that terrible habit, which we know is the cause of unnecessary deaths through cancer and coronary heart disease. He rightly paid tribute to the effective smoking cessation service in...

Written Answers — Health: Health Services (Barnet) (10 Apr 2002)

Mr John Hutton: ...size, deprivation and other determinants of health), as well as national requirements. As well as taking forward plans for NHS modernisation, key priority area for action have identified as: Smoking Health development and community development Coronary heart disease and stroke Cancer Diabetes Children Accidents.

Written Answers — Health: Lung Disease (9 Jan 2002)

Mr John Hutton: ...Government initiatives already in place which take a preventive approach to lung disease and have long-term objectives to improve treatment and care. These include the investment of £53 million in smoking cessation services. Smoking is the major cause of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In addition the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has...

Public Bill Committee: NHS Reform & Health Care Professions: Clause 13 - Commission for health improvement: inspections and investigations (4 Dec 2001)

Mr John Hutton: I think that that would be the case, but the decision on what special measures should be taken will be a judgment for the Secretary of State. We shall not do that in a dark and smoke-filled room because the matter should be open to public inspection. We are trying to improve the public's national health service. The NHS does not belong to us or to the hon. Gentleman, but to the whole country...

Public Bill Committee: NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill: Clause 3 - Directions: distribution of functions (29 Nov 2001)

Mr John Hutton: ...for us to be intellectually alert. He always is, and has a fine reputation in the House for that. I know how difficult it must be for him today, because I understand that he is trying to give up smoking. I gave up smoking, and know how difficult it is. I did not feel especially intellectually alert, and on the day that I tried to give up, I thought that my IQ had dropped by about 50 per...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care Bill: Clause 46 - Care Trusts where directedpartnership arrangements (6 Feb 2001)

Mr John Hutton: ...trusts in a sensible and reasonable fashion. The right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire asked me to change my vocabulary and I am trying to do so. Let me reassure him, too, that this is not a smoke and mirrors operation whereby we shall effectively be able to use clause 46 to establish care trusts compulsorily across the country. If the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge had...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking (8 Jun 1999)

Mr John Hutton: Guidance was issued on 16 April 1999 to the NHS on the development of new NHS smoking cessation services. Up to £60 million will be available over the next three years, initially in health action zones, to develop these new services.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking (8 Jun 1999)

Mr John Hutton: Again, I am happy to join my hon. Friend in supporting the excellent work that is done in Birmingham. The smoke-free Birmingham campaign is an excellent model for other partners to explore. The first year of the new three-year programme of promoting smoking cessation services will be focused on health action zones, but in years two and three we expect the benefits to be spread more widely...

Orders of the Day — Testicular Cancer (10 Mar 1999)

Mr John Hutton: ...history increases the risk of developing the disease. There is evidence also that a high-fat and low-vegetable diet increases the risk. Therefore, unlike lung cancer—of which we know that smoking greatly increases the risk—we are not yet able to advise men of ways in which they might reduce their risk of developing prostate and testicular cancer. There are other steps that we...

Strokes (14 Dec 1998)

Mr John Hutton: ...in stroke mortality of at least a further third by 2010. This target is taken from a 1996 baseline. What can people do to modify the risk of getting a stroke? Modifiable risk factors include smoking, raised blood pressure, raised plasma cholesterol and physical inactivity. Other contributory factors are excessive alcohol intake, obesity, excess salt in the diet and diabetes. Inactive...

The Economy (23 Nov 1994)

Mr John Hutton: ...of the deplorable closure of the Swan Hunter yard in Tyneside, which could have been avoided had the Government shown any commitment to the shipbuilding industry. The shipbuilding industry is not a smoke-stack industry; it is not an industry of the past; it is not about dragging heavy objects over steel floors and men wearing hobnail boots. It is a high-tech industry with some of the most...