Results 1-14 of 14 for smoking speaker:Fiona Mactaggart

Child Poverty (27 Feb 2008)

Fiona Mactaggart: ...birth weight, which is a huge difference from the usual situation. The partnership helped mothers to improve their diet—again, that improved the prospects for the children—and to cut down on smoking and drinking. It also alerted them to antenatal appointments by text message, for example. Services are not good enough at doing such things. We need more such early intervention...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Health Inequalities (24 Oct 2006)

Fiona Mactaggart: ...in my constituency and between it and the surrounding areas, have narrowed, but the biggest killer remains coronary heart disease—whose primary cause is poverty—followed by diabetes, smoking and obesity. Those are the biggest predictors of early death. Will my hon. Friend assure me that tackling those factors in the poorest areas will be a high priority for the Government?

Written Answers — Home Department: Prisoners (6 Feb 2006)

Fiona Mactaggart: Each prison develops its own no smoking" policy in line with current health and safety advice, taking into account the type of establishment it is, its population and the special needs of that population. Wherever possible prisoners should not be required to share accommodation with a smoker if they so request. A working group has been set up to look at the smoke free elements of the current...

Written Answers — Home Department: Prisons (19 Jan 2006)

Fiona Mactaggart: People in prison are being helped to stop smoking through services specially targeted to meet their needs, including nicotine replacement therapy. In 2001–02 the Department of Health ran a pilot project on smoking cessation in prison. It publication, Acquitted", is a reference guide for those starting up new stop smoking services in the prison setting and outlines key learning points...

Written Answers — Home Department: Prisons (12 Dec 2005)

Fiona Mactaggart: holding answer 1 November 2005 Each prison develops its own no smoking" policy in line with current health and safety advice and taking into account the type of establishment it is, its population and the special needs of that population. Such local arrangements also require staff to be protected from the effects of passive smoking. Wherever possible prisoners should not be required to share...

Orders of the Day — Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill (25 Feb 2005)

Ms Fiona Mactaggart: ...have to say that they are not generally directed to middle-aged women such as myself. I am not sure whether citing some of the language used could be unparliamentary, but the major theme is clear: smoking cannabis could "screw you up". It manages to use messages that connect both to the beauty theme mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Laura Moffatt), the mental health...

Orders of the Day — Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill (25 Feb 2005)

Ms Fiona Mactaggart: ...set out in the ACPO cannabis enforcement guidance are clear. In general, there is a presumption against arrest, but the police can arrest in specific circumstances, including where an adult is smoking cannabis in a public place. As with all policing, it is for the individual officer to judge the most appropriate response to a specific set of circumstances within the overall framework of...

Orders of the Day — Drugs (Sentencing and Commission of Inquiry) Bill (25 Feb 2005)

Ms Fiona Mactaggart: .... Indeed, perhaps the 199,000 police hours to which I referred earlier have enabled the police to target mass importation of cannabis rather than spending their time arresting users who were smoking with their friends. Frankly, in my view, that is a better use of police time. That action is likely to reduce the harm that cannabis can cause more effectively than anything else. Our public...

Written Answers — Home Department: Publicity (2 Feb 2005)

Ms Fiona Mactaggart: ...recruitment of special constables, fire safety, absent voting and electoral registration. 1998–99 £1.8 million on advertising in a total advertising and publicity budget of £4.194 million. Campaigns included smoke alarms, recruitment of special constables, crime partnerships and electoral registration. 1999–2000 £5.65 million on advertising in a total advertising...

Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Costs (9 Sep 2004)

Ms Fiona Mactaggart: .... 1998–99 £1.8 million on advertising and £4.194 million on total communications. Communication spend represents 0.00005 per cent. of total Home Office public expenditure of £7,608,178 million. Campaigns included smoke alarm, recruitment of special constables, crime partnerships and electoral registration. 1999–2000 £5.65 million on advertising and...

Written Answers — Home Department: Advertising (7 Sep 2004)

Ms Fiona Mactaggart: ...–99 Advertising spend was £1.8 million in a total communication budget of £4.194 million. Communication spend represents 0.00005 per cent. of total Home office public expenditure of £7,608,178 million. Campaigns included smoke alarms, recruitment of special constables, crime partnerships and electoral registration. 1999–2000 Advertising spend was £5.65...

Written Answers — Home Department: Designated Accommodation (7 Sep 2004)

Ms Fiona Mactaggart: In the Departments seven main central London buildings there is (a) one smoking room in each building, (b) one building with a multi-faith room and one building with a Muslim prayer room, and (c) a designated room for nursing mothers and pregnant women in three of the buildings. This information is not held centrally for the remainder of the Home Office Estate.

Business of the House (9 May 2002)

Ms Fiona Mactaggart: The Leader of the House has been very patient with my frequent questions about the future of the reform of the second Chamber. I am concerned that there are still not very clear smoke signals about where the process is going. I wonder whether we might have a discussion shortly so that we can see the future shape of the Government's proposals and so that hon. Members can discuss them.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Tobacco Advertising (11 Nov 1997)

Ms Fiona Mactaggart: My hon. Friend the Minister mentioned in earlier answers the increase in smoking among young people that occurred under the previous Government. Has she any particular plans to tackle the increase in smoking among young women, as smoking has increased more quickly among them than among young men? Can she give us a preview of the actions she plans to take to target that group, who are...