Results 1-12 of 12 for smoking speaker:David Maclean

Petition: Hunting with Dogs (7 Jul 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ...today, if I may say so, and I have very little time. The freedom of each individual to hunt with hounds is no different in principle from the freedom to fish, shoot, eat meat, drink alcohol, smoke a cigarette, watch football, gamble on the lottery or worship as one chooses. A free society is one that jealously protects the freedoms of its individual citizens and the acid test of a free...

Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill: Amendment of Part Xii of the Licensing Act 1964 (12 May 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ..., is a notice which—wrongly, in my opinion—forbids us from having a cigarette. When one is tense in the Chamber, one can no longer go out for a quick fag to calm one's nerves. I do not smoke cigarettes myself, but I respect the right of others to do so. I have not seen anyone break that law in the Corridor, the Library or anywhere else where the anti-smoking noose is tightening...

Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill: Amendment of Part Xii of the Licensing Act 1964 (12 May 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ...I have strong views on criminal sanctions. However, we can apply a host of regulations to both Houses of Parliament that are not elements of the criminal law. For instance, it is not an offence to smoke in most corridors in the country, but to do so in some of the Corridors here is against our internal rules. That is how it should be—the House must be able to regulate itself and set...

Orders of the Day — Licensing (Young Persons) Bill: Amendment of Part Xii of the Licensing Act 1964 (12 May 2000)

Mr David Maclean: ...procedures, without having to incorporate every jot and tittle of the criminal law, which is designed to prevent unscrupulous people from exploiting loopholes. We have a host of rules, such as no smoking in the Corridor behind the Speaker's Chair. I hope that a rule will shortly be introduced banning the use of mobile phones in the Pugin Room. We have a whole range of rules of etiquette...

Orders of the Day — Bus Fuel Duty (Exemptions) Bill (12 Mar 1999)

Mr David Maclean: ...made a surprising speech. No doubt, I shall get a letter from London Transport next week, correcting me, but, as a rural Member, I can say that, if buses in the lake district mountains emitted the smoke that I often see coming from London buses, we would make pretty sure that they were put out of action straight away. It sits ill in the mouth of a London Member to suggest that community...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation: Amendment of the Law (9 Mar 1999)

Mr David Maclean: I hope that they do not smoke; provided that they do not, they may be slightly better off as a result of the Budget. However, as the right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland pointed out, with the best will in the world, tens of millions of people in this country cannot make use of an integrated transport policy. The motorist has been fleeced in this and the previous two Budgets. The motorist is...

Orders of the Day — Fireworks Bill: Prohibition of Supply etc. of Other Explosives. (3 Jul 1998)

Mr David Maclean: ...procedure in this House. I am not sure of the extent of the Explosives Act. It is an important measure, but I think that it merely defines explosives—whether they are shotgun cartridges, smoke cartridges or mountain rescue flares. Obviously, the definition includes large pyrotechnics, explosives, military explosives and so forth. That measure was enacted in 1875. People accept that...

Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill (11 Jun 1997)

Mr David Maclean: ...", the then shadow Home Secretary was reading the latest opinion poll and focus group findings, and Labour party policy changed overnight. That happened behind closed doors over mineral water in smoke-free rooms in Islington. My hon. Friend the Member for Romsey (Mr. Colvin) has observed that Labour's evidence to the Cullen inquiry was entirely at odds with its present policy. A total ban...

Sentencing Proposals (19 Jun 1996)

Mr David Maclean: ...party has tried to debate anything other than the proposals set out in the White Paper. Their so-called strategy for crime is not worthy of the name. I reckon that Labour Members must pray that smoking is never banned because, if it is, it would deprive them of the fag packets on which they need to work out their future policies. The Labour party talks about crime prevention and about a...

Crime in Ribble Valley (25 May 1995)

Mr David Maclean: ...and my right hon. and learned Friend is Home Secretary—is that we shall never legalise any drugs that are currently banned. I know that there are sophisticated trendies who say that they can smoke a bit of pot after dinner parties in Hampstead—they can handle it. No doubt they can. Many people can handle a few glasses of port after dinner, but millions cannot. It is no good...

Orders of the Day — Opposition Day: "Back to Basics" (2 Mar 1994)

Mr David Maclean: ...agree with my hon. Friend about the need to challenge loutish behaviour. The Evening Standard carried a good example at the end of last year. A young woman on the underground asked someone who was smoking illegally to stop doing so. The young woman then received a torrent of abuse and was punched. The other passengers just looked the other way. Yobbish behaviour leads to crime. Louts who...

Representation of the People Acts (27 Jun 1984)

Mr David Maclean: .... It gives the returning officer more work, but that is a different argument. The invalidity argument is spurious. I shall happily treat any Minister in the Home Office to his favourite tipple in the Smoking Room if he will tell the House that he is brave enough to submit only one nomination paper with only 10 names appended to it for his candidature. I have never known an election agent...