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Points of Order: April Adjournment (3 Apr 2008) has video

Peter Lilley: ...cannabis use was tolerated, while leaving it against the law and allowing no method of getting it except from gangs who also push hard drugs. Now we are seeing the new Prime Minister doing the same smoke and mirrors thing, thinking he can give the impression that he is doing something substantive by asking for cannabis to be upgraded again. These things are second order and not important....

Estimates Day — [1st Allotted Day] — Vote on Account: 2003–04 — Government Drugs Policy (5 Dec 2002)

Mr Peter Lilley: ...study was simply a review of past studies, most of which were available to The Lancet report when it reviewed the evidence. I quoted The Lancet report as saying: XThere is some evidence that cannabis smoking may be even more likely than tobacco to generate bronchial ailments and to cause cancers especially if smoked in conjunction with tobacco." There is no reason for us to change our...

Drugs Strategy (9 Nov 2001)

Mr Peter Lilley: ...will make that possible. The other strong health argument involves cancer. As the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Ms King) pointed out, no one has died from a cannabis overdose, but if people smoked as much cannabis as ordinary cigarettes, they would probably be more likely to contract cancer than regular tobacco smokers. However, almost no one smokes cannabis as heavily as heavy...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill: General Right of Access to Information Held by Public Authorities (27 Nov 2000)

Mr Peter Lilley: ...a restriction of disclosure Bill. In my various ministerial roles, I have always been a believer in, and a practitioner of, open government. I insisted on making available to the courts the "smoking gun" document that revealed the minutes of the meeting between Alan Clark and Matrix Churchill. I insisted on the publication of every single licence for the export of equipment from this...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (18 Mar 1998)

Mr Peter Lilley: ...they published were too rosy. Even the corrected figures are wrong, because they take account only of direct taxes. The Labour Government think that people do not have a car, do not drink, do not smoke, do not have a pension and do not save: all those ways in which this and the previous Budget hit ordinary households were not taken into account. We asked the experts to look at a typical...

Public Accounts (30 Nov 1989)

Mr Peter Lilley: ...but by private companies, which are being encouraged to participate in the campaign. My hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield mentioned the importance of tobacco taxes. They are a crucial way of discouraging smoking, which is a major cause of heart disease. In my previous capacity—Lilley of lacuna—I was the guilty man responsible for not raising tobacco taxes as much as my...

Gipsy Caravan Sites (13 Mar 1987)

Mr Peter Lilley: ...so because we believe that the green belt should be sacrosanct and preserved as a green lung, separating us from London and other built-up areas. There are plenty of people without jobs in the old smoke-stack industries of our major towns, often in the north, who would love to seek work in my constituency where jobs are plentiful. They would be only too happy to reside in caravans on green...