Results 1-9 of 9 for smoking speaker:Michael Meacher

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Chromate Copper Arsenate-treated Wood (19 Sep 2002)

Mr Michael Meacher: holding answer 17 July 2002 The Clean Air Act 1993 prohibits the use of unauthorised fuel (such as wood and bituminous coal) in domestic grates in houses located in designated smoke control areas. Some closed domestic stoves are permitted for use in smoke control areas to burn specific types of wood, which are usually specified as firewood or wood or untreated dry wood. The EU Scientific...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Air Pollution (1 Jul 2002)

Mr Michael Meacher: ...monitoring (nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, PM 1 0 , carbon monoxide, ozone, benzene, 1,3-butadiene) 122 Non-automatic monitoring: Nitrogen dioxide diffusion tubes 1309 Black smoke/sulphur dioxide 150 Rural sulphur dioxide 40 Rural nitrogen dioxide diffusion tube 32 Lead 6 Benzene 28 Hazardous air pollutants (PCBs, Dioxins, polycyclic aromatic...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Bonfires (20 May 2002)

Mr Michael Meacher: ...and garden rubbish but they can be a nuisance to neighbours and cause air pollution. Local authorities have powers under section 79 of the Environment Protection Act 1990 to stop people creating smoke that amounts to a statutory nuisance. Where an Environmental Health Officer considers a bonfire to be causing a statutory nuisance then he or she must issue an abatement notice against the...

Radon Gas (South Devon) (30 Jan 2002)

Mr Michael Meacher: ...—I think that he said 3,000—die each year from radon poisoning than from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Although we know that the main cause of death from lung cancer is, overwhelmingly, smoking, a significant proportion of lung cancer deaths is nevertheless attributable to radon. The hon. Gentleman made a powerful comparison between the risks associated with mining, or those...

Opposition Day: Transport and the Environment (31 Oct 1994)

Mr Michael Meacher: ...as driving into city centres with no passengers. We seek a cultural change, which is what is needed in Britain. We need a cultural change rather like the one that has occurred in the attitude to smoking and drinking and driving so that more socially responsible car use, such as I have suggested, becomes the norm of social acceptability. That requires a lead from the Government, but it is...

Opposition Day: Training (5 Jul 1989)

Mr Michael Meacher: ...apparently now even proposing to phase out the approved training organisers, who are the one sure guarantee of quality control. It is employers who have been saying that they fear that the TECs are a smoke screen to disguise the Government's retreat from funding industrial training. It was, in fact, the employers, in a letter from the Association of British Chambers of Commerce to the...

North-West (Strategic Plan) (21 Dec 1973)

Mr Michael Meacher: ...of doctors, the worst pupil-teacher ratio, the least open country recreation and the greatest river pollution. The North-West is also near the bottom of the league in terms of black areas not subject to smoke control orders. It has the smallest number of pupils remaining at school beyond the age of 16 and the smallest number of pupils in full-time further education. It is the lowest in...

Pollution (22 Dec 1972)

Mr Michael Meacher: ...to be used by such an agency. It is a highly unsatisfactory position that the Alkali Inspectorate can at present insist that a firm must use "the best practicable means" of preventing the emission of smoke, dust and grit, yet the courts have ruled that "the best practicable means" must be interpreted to mean what is feasible bearing in mind the economic well-being of the firm concerned....

Disabled Persons (Payment) (14 Jun 1972)

Mr Michael Meacher: ...condition as not confined to this occupation. I refer to the Official Report, 23rd May, 1972; Vol. 837, c. 331. This is despite the fact that in the test case put by the union, that of the 49-year-old non-smoking skilled electric arc welder named Sidney Cartwright, the judge ruled that his condition, which included siderosis from the iron particles in his lung, was in all probability due...