Results 1-20 of 82 for smoking speaker:Tim Loughton

Bill Presented: Local Government Finance (4 Feb 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: .... We welcome the area cost adjustment review that is under way. The most frustrating aspect of the ACA is that we are denied access to the data necessary to check and review the Government's own calculations. There is too much smoke and mirrors. We need greater transparency in the way that local government is financed and we need to support, rather than undermine, the great innovations...

Written Answers — Home Department: Cannabis: Young People (22 Jul 2008)

Tim Loughton: ...State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the proportion of children (a) under 14, (b) 14 to 16 and (c) between 17 and 18 years old who (i) have tried skunk cannabis and (ii) smoke skunk cannabis at least once a week in each of the last 10 years.

Written Answers — Health: Secure Psychiatric Units: Smoking (3 Jul 2008)

Tim Loughton: ...State for Health whether the Government (1) have estimated how many mental health trusts made use of the support provided by the Tobacco Control Collaborative Centre to introduce the forthcoming smoking ban in psychiatric units; and whether the Government intend to review the effectiveness of this support once the ban comes into effect; (2) what plans the Government have to measure the...

Orders of the Day: Children and Young Persons Bill [Lords] (16 Jun 2008) has video

Tim Loughton: ...system. Some 25 per cent. of people in prisons came through the care system, and the figure is anything up to half of those in youth offender institutes. Such children are four times more likely to smoke, drink under age and take drugs, and last year, 9.5 per cent. of over-10s in the care system were cautioned for or convicted of an offence. Not doing something more urgently about this...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Young People (20 Mar 2008)

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures he is considering to reduce levels of smoking among teenagers.

Public Bill Committee: Mental Health Bill [Lords]: Clause 3 (24 Apr 2007)

Tim Loughton: We debated that issue the other day. Somebody with a severe lung condition who smokes a lot of cigarettes could be construed as wanting to hasten their own death. That could be construed as some form of mental disorder. However, I would concur that that is an extreme example.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (4 Sep 2006)

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what methods she uses to estimate the number of children who (a) smoke and (b) have stopped smoking.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (17 Jan 2006)

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how bingo halls will be treated under the proposed ban on smoking in public places.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (24 Nov 2005)

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the financial impact of a smoking ban in public places on bingo clubs.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (24 Nov 2005)

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what basis the regulatory impact assessment accompanying the Health Bill has calculated that a ban on smoking in public places will have no disproportionate impact on (a) smokers with mental illness, (b) black and ethnic minority smokers and (c) single mothers in deprived areas.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (24 Nov 2005)

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the smoking prevalence for (a) adults and (b) minors in England has been in each of the last 10years, broken down by sex.

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...on securing fourth place in the ballot. Whatever the merits of the Bill—we can argue over its wording—I certainly congratulate her on successfully continuing to focus on the curse of smoking. We would all agree that we need to do much more to address that. My right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) apologises that he is not in the Chamber...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...localism agenda. My party is all for giving back many more powers to local authorities that are accountable to local people to make decisions for local circumstances. That is absolutely right, but smoking in public places is a national public health issue. It is this House that should be legislating or not legislating on a national issue as part of a Government's national public health...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...been made under the voluntary code with, for example, the hospitality industry. In the recent past, 26 companies representing 40 per cent. of the UK's pubs and bars have committed to a new no-smoking strategy, agreeing that by the end of December 2005 they will have in place no smoking at the bar, which has already been mentioned, no smoking in back-of-house areas, an increase in...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...places that are open to children and want firms to come up with much clearer and stronger priorities about how they protect their staff. Overall, the Government need to have a much more effective smoking cessation policy. An arbitrary ban on pubs and clubs serving food is unworkable, and many will simply go out of business. We should treat people as adults and allow them to make their own...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Tim Loughton: The hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Mr. Stunell) mentioned Liverpool city council's Bill. My right hon. Friend may be interested to learn that the SmokeFree Liverpool campaign, in its literature—probably paid for by the local taxpayer—gives free advertising space to all the places in Liverpool that are "socially smoke-free". Those businesses have made a commercial decision to become...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...hon. Lady makes about NHS trusts, and mine has implemented such a policy, but does she agree that special considerations need to be applied when dealing with mental health trusts? The incidence of smoking among people with mental illness is much higher, and to take someone with mental illness into a secure unit that has banned smoking is positively dangerous in some circumstances, and not...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...includes "vehicle or vessel" in its definition of "premises" and defines "Wales" as including "the sea adjacent to Wales". Does the hon. Lady intend the legislation to apply to, for example, people smoking on the decks of ferries as they leave Welsh ports?

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (21 Feb 2005)

Mr Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what his latest estimate is of the percentage of people who have used the NHS Stop Smoking Services programme and who are no longer smoking after 12 months; (2) how many people have used the NHS Stop Smoking Services in each of the last five years; and what the average cost to the NHS per person is of NHS recommended smoking cessation services.

Obesity (10 Feb 2005)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...to be an ongoing campaign that stays in people's minds, perhaps using shock tactics. The product—the fat—needs to be made into the enemy; not the consumer. That was the success of the anti-smoking campaigns in California and other parts of the United States. With fast food, it is no good merely to point the finger of blame at the fast food merchants—Burger King and...