Results 1-13 of 13 for smoking speaker:Anne McGuire

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Smoking (21 May 2008)

Anne McGuire: There are no smoking shelters at any of the Department's London buildings and none have been constructed in the last five years. All DWP buildings are smoke free indoors.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Industrial Health and Safety: Sonae (UK) (21 May 2007)

Anne McGuire: ...the consequences of the fire, despite the existence of a previously unknown void between the wall of the manifold room and the external cladding. The damage to the plant control room resulted from smoke and hot gases breaching this void, although such damage was limited to plant and equipment. There was no loss of life or injury.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Carbon Monoxide: Poisoning (14 Mar 2007)

Anne McGuire: .... However, all Fire and Rescue Services in England have discretion to extend their Home Fire Risk Checks for vulnerable households to provide a free CO alarm, in addition to installation of a free smoke alarm. Similar arrangements are being considered in Wales. There are also other Government initiatives aimed at helping pensioners with gas and heating expenses. These include schemes such...

Sonae Factory (Kirkby) (27 Feb 2007)

Anne McGuire: ...the vicinity of, the Sonae plant. As such, they rightly fall within the remit of the HSE. However, he has also raised other concerns that relate to environmental matters—such as noise, dust, smoke, emissions and water pollution—over which the HSE has no regulatory powers. He has correctly identified that responsibility for those falls to the local authority, Knowsley...

Health and Safety Executive (6 Dec 2006)

Anne McGuire: ...the straw bale maze. The design of the maze, as my hon. Friend has said, was an interesting one. However, the design made it foreseeable that, in the event of a fire, a child could be trapped in a smoke-filled tunnel, unable to find an exit. I want to put on record the issues that the prohibition notice was meant to address. The bale maze was constructed of compressed large straw-bales,...

Public Bill Committee: Welfare Reform Bill: Clause 17 (31 Oct 2006)

Anne McGuire: .... Member for Daventry was backing up comments made by the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey about whether people could be disqualified if they did not take advice to give up smoking or lose weight. If that were so, a lot of Committee members would not qualify for our jobs. No names, no pack drill. We are not anticipating using the power in that way; we would use it...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Gas Safety (15 Feb 2006)

Anne McGuire: ...of the CO problem and awareness of the risks. Other interdepartmental efforts to promote CO awareness have included: HSE has worked with ODPM on their Home Fire Risk Check Initiative, where, in addition to smoke alarm installation, funding is also available for fire and rescue services to purchase and install a number of carbon monoxide detectors to offer additional protection. DH produced...

Written Answers — Treasury: Asbestos (14 Dec 2005)

Anne McGuire: ...register, Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI). Lung cancer deaths caused by asbestos are clinically indistinguishable from those caused by other agents such as tobacco smoke. It is estimated that about the same number of lung cancer deaths due to asbestos occur each year as mesothelioma deaths. The number of deaths where asbestosis was specified as the underlying cause...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Asbestos (14 Dec 2005)

Anne McGuire: .... Source: HSE mesothelioma register Deaths from lung cancer due to asbestos Lung cancer deaths caused by asbestos are clinically indistinguishable from those caused by other agents such as tobacco smoke. It is estimated that about the same number of lung cancer deaths due to asbestos occur each year as mesothelioma deaths. Deaths with asbestosis specified as underlying cause,...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Smoking (30 Nov 2005)

Anne McGuire: The Health and Safety Commission reached its view on the health and safety effects of second-hand smoke in the workplace by taking into account the report of the Department of Health's Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH). In November 2004, SCOTH's updated report confirmed that second-hand smoke represents a substantial public health hazard. The Health and Safety at Work etc Act...

Written Answers — Scotland: Smoking (2 Feb 2005)

Mrs Anne McGuire: The Scotland Office has no rooms set aside in which smoking is permitted.

Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Clause 19 - The Rail Passengers' Council (11 Jan 2005)

Mrs Anne McGuire: If the right hon. Gentleman scans the Scottish press any day of the week he will see that the last thing that one can say in Scotland is that anything is either kept hidden or conducted in a smoke-filled room.

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Postal Services (11 Jun 2002)

Mrs Anne McGuire: I thank my hon. Friend for his kind remarks. In the interests of health, I should say that Capstan Full Strength do not do one any good, and my father paid a penalty for smoking them over a long period. I know that he is sitting on a cloud somewhere laughing at that comment. On the one-stop shop, there have been pilots in Leicestershire and Rutland, which are currently being evaluated. I hope...