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Public Health (5 Feb 1998)

Mr John Maples: ...disappointed that the Government have dropped so many targets. They have set themselves only four, but we also need to target the underlying causes of many diseases. "The Health of the Nation" targeted smoking, blood pressure and diet. Without such targets, there is nothing to aim at. We must have some measurable objectives. How otherwise will we or the Government know whether the policy...

Public Health (5 Feb 1998)

Mr John Maples: .... There is obviously some direct connection. If people live in bad, damp housing and get chest infections, there is clearly a connection. However, I believe that far more ill health is caused by smoking, the overuse of alcohol, bad diet and lack of exercise. We already know about all those things. It may be—and it probably is—extremely difficult to get people to improve their...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: "The Health of the Nation" (11 Nov 1997)

Mr John Maples: Given that one of the "Health of the Nation" targets was a reduction in teenage smoking, and given that the Minister refused to tell us what she really thought about that issue in answer to my previous question, perhaps she will try to answer this one. Last week, when she was in some difficulty on the issue, she said that she had acted on the advice of the Secretary of State. He was...

Opposition Day: Eye Tests (6 Jun 1990)

Mr John Maples: ...additional £9 billion on it. One suspects that those things are not Labour party commitments, and that they are part of the letter to Santa Claus which the hon. Member for Livingston is puffing up the chimney with the smoke and which the hon. Member for Derby, South, who is sitting at the top, is tearing up unless its commitments refer to child benefit or pensions. I hope that I have...

Inner London Education Authority (17 Feb 1988)

Mr John Maples: ...power to take the necessary action if that happens and he finds that the education plan of an inner-London borough is inadequate, or inadequately put into effect? When the Bill is enacted and the smoke has settled and the Labour leaders of inner London boroughs who now say that they will defend ILEA to the death come round to the idea that they would quite like to run education in their...