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Fire and Rescue Services (Humberside) (18 Mar 2008)

Austin Mitchell: ...what it proposes on fire prevention work, training, new gear for flooding and rescue and new platforms. The fire brigade in my area has also done an enormous and successful job in providing free smoke detectors. It no longer gets money from the Government to do that work—it must do so through alternative means—but the work could not be done through cuts, and it must go on. The...

Cannabis (14 Jan 1998)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...be available in tincture form. The Dutch have developed preparations of cannabis that can be taken orally or by inhaler. I am not asking that people suffering from medical conditions be allowed to smoke cannabis, but we need research into a form of it that will dissociate treatment by the drug from its leisure uses. All this work is being held up by the decision in 1971 to shift cannabis...

European Community (12 Nov 1982)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...industrial problem at the heart of Britain's decline far worse that it would have been otherwise. All the arguments about job losses and about what is likely to happen to investment are nothing but the smoke screen of fear and doubt to which we have become accustomed and which is largely financed out of our own money. We have to pay for this fifth column of propaganda to be carried on here...

Ways and Means: Tobacco Products (No. 2) (6 Jul 1981)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...-moralistic argument for increasing the tax on tobacco, provided that the burden is being shifted from other areas. After all, taxation on tobacco is a voluntary tax in that people do not have to smoke. It seems to be true that substantial increases in taxation on tobacco help to combat the habit of smoking and reduce the amount of smoking. Perhaps we should be grateful for that. I am...

Ways and Means: Tobacco Products (No. 2) (6 Jul 1981)

Mr Austin Mitchell: I do not wish to continue talking too much about my wife. If, however, one of the reasons for smoking is anxiety and the fact that the more anxious the person the more that person smokes—I am not sure whether it is related to going back to the breast—the Government's economic policies and the resulting unemployment should have led to a massive increase in smoking. The strains...

Ways and Means: Tobacco Products (No. 2) (6 Jul 1981)

Mr Austin Mitchell: There is no answer to that. The original question concerned the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath). I do not know whether his smoking has increased, given the attempts to repress his freedom of speech made by the Conservative Party. So great would be my anxiety about the Government's economic policies if I were a Government Back Bencher that would probably take up smoking large numbers...

Ways and Means: Tobacco Products (No. 2) (6 Jul 1981)

Mr Austin Mitchell: I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley (Mr. Cryer) for his intervention. There is an argument for increasing the taxation on tobacco because of the health consequences of smoking. However, transitional increases must be planned and regularised. There should not be the sudden and unpredictable lurches that we see from the Government in their desperate search for new sources of...

Ways and Means: Tobacco Products (6 Jul 1981)

Mr Austin Mitchell: Is that not exactly the lesson that is provided by the measure that we are debating? Who are the people who will smoke the cigarettes and use the tobacco that is to be subject to extra taxation? It will be smoked by those who are looking for work, by those who are still in work and by the less well off. The burden of taxation will fall again on them, while the wealthy will continue to receive...

Orders of the Day — Merchant Shipping Bill (30 Nov 1978)

Mr Austin Mitchell: ...about Grimsby's vessels. The inquiry was told that there was considerable drinking, that there were demands for more drink, that there was drink in the wheelhouse and that a bosun was smoking pot at the time of the accident.