Results 1-8 of 8 for smoking speaker:Michael Jack

Defence Procurement (2 Feb 2006)

Michael Jack: ...the second tranche to fulfil the order for the first 24 will be technically owned by the UK Government. Can the Minister therefore assure me that we are not about to be subjected to an example of smoke and mirrors whereby the Government magically acquire 72 of these aircraft, which is more or less tranche 3, sell them to Saudi Arabia, and then put their hands up and say, "Right, we've...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 1 - Rates of tobacco products duty (14 May 2002)

Mr Michael Jack: ...affects demand.'' The hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton said that we have previously discussed the demand elasticity of tobacco products; perhaps we should discuss it again. I am not a smoker, but I am aware of the struggle by smokers to give up. I am also aware, from inspection rather than from objective proof, that more young people are starting to smoke. It would be helpful to have...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (20 Apr 1999)

Mr Michael Jack: ...about presentation, and the hon. Gentleman was right to point the finger at me and say that I perhaps did some of that too. We all sometimes have to handle difficult messages, but this Budget took smoke and mirrors to the level of a new art form. I can think of some of the people who might have assisted in this, and they have clearly lost none of their skills in the transfer to the new...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (15 Mar 1999)

Mr Michael Jack: .... The fact that the right hon. Gentleman could not answer such a basic, simple question showed that, in reality, Ministers are out of touch. The Budget clearly demonstrates that the arcane art of smoke and mirrors that typifies the Treasury's activity in producing any of its documents is as alive and well as it ever has been—although I think that the Chancellor must have consulted...

Orders of the Day — Scotland Bill: Beef Bones Regulations (10 Feb 1998)

Mr Michael Jack: Not to the hon. Gentleman. Let us look at the inconsistency in the way in which the Government handle risk. Why are they prepared to sanction a risk of one in 200 of people dying from smoking cigarettes at the rate of 10 a day? With regard to food risk, why are the Government prepared to sanction death at the rate of one in 5 million from poultry meat infected by salmonella and meat infected...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (7 Jul 1997)

Mr Michael Jack: ...own policies, which he says are supposed to improve the productive capacity of the economy, increase investment and do all the other supply-side things to which his Budget alluded. It is quite interesting that, when the smoke clears, one sees how little ambition the Chancellor has on inflation and on growth in the economy. That is, perhaps, not surprising, because forecasting is...

Opposition Day: NHS Services (Charging) (25 Jun 1997)

Mr Michael Jack: ...during his absence from the House he lost nothing of his incisive ability to get to the heart of the matter. He exposed the Secretary of State for what he is—the purveyor of large amounts of smoke, a screen and waffle. He did not respond to any of the Opposition's substantive points. I also congratulate the hon. Member for Dartford (Dr. Stoate) on his speech and thank him for his...

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security: Self-employed (2 Mar 1992)

Mr Michael Jack: My hon. Friend, in his inimitable style, has smoked out one of the hidden parts of the Opposition's agenda. I hope that, during this Question Time, the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) will make Labour's policy clear. The Labour party is committed to removing the upper earnings limit for employed persons, but the hon. Member for Oldham, West has not made his party's policy on the...