Results 1-20 of 22 for smoking speaker:Richard Ottaway

Orders of the Day — Violent Crime Reduction Bill (20 Jun 2005)

Richard Ottaway: .... The industry is making substantial sums out of these vertical retail outlets. Anyone going into any of them on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night will see hundreds of people drinking away like mad, smoking and having a good time. The vendors and owners of these outlets are making huge sums of money, which poses the question why they should not be paying for the extra security demands....

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...to produce the killer piece of evidence that they gave the impression was there. It has not materialised. With hindsight, their optimism was misguided, misplaced and misleading. There is no smoking gun. There is no clear link between international terrorism and Saddam Hussein. The dodgy dossier and the false claims of attempts to buy uranium in Africa have undermined the argument. There is...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Smoking (11 Jun 2002)

Mr Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the answer from the Secretary of State for Health of 21 May 2002, Official Report, column 302W, on smoking, if he will estimate the savings to public funds relating to pension payments as a consequence of premature deaths among smokers.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (21 May 2002)

Mr Richard Ottaway: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent information he has collated on the extent to which smoking reduces life expectancy.

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] (29 Apr 2002)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...although public health advocates assert that tobacco advertising increases cigarette consumption, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no effect of tobacco advertising on smokers. That is from the author of the report on which the Secretary of State is relying. The KPMG report found that in Norway, Iceland, Italy and Finland the trends were not affected by the...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] (29 Apr 2002)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...carried out, Colin MacDonald states that there is no evidence in any of the studies to suggest that if advertising were banned, it would make the least difference to the propensity of children to smoke. Of course, stopping children smoking is an aim; it is an objective. It is illegal for children under the age of 16 to smoke. We should be targeting an attempt to limit such children's...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Combined cases (9 May 2001)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...so 1 shall not give way again. Families have suffered a systematic increase in taxation over the past four years. How does it help our children if their parents are taxed up to the hilt? If people smoke, drink, drive a car, have a pension or are married, they have been subjected to 45 increases in taxation during this Parliament. Such regressive taxes hit those on lowest incomes...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (12 Mar 2001)

Mr Richard Ottaway: No, I am sorry, but time is against me. The Government have invented 45 stealth taxes on everything from holidays to pensions. If people are married, smoke, drink or drive a car, they feel it in their pockets. The irony is that those taxes are being introduced by, of all things, a Labour Government. They are regressive taxes, hitting those on the lowest incomes and hitting worst of all in...

Opposition Day: UK Manufacturing and Enterprise (16 May 2000)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...red book is indecipherable. Budget commentators refuse to be drawn into instant comment so that they can work out what the Chancellor has said. But as the mirrors are put back into storage, as the smoke drifts away, the true picture begins to emerge. Yes, they have cut the headline rate of corporation tax to 30 per cent. Yes, they have cut it to 20 per cent. for small businesses. But it...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Richard Ottaway: I start by paying tribute to all taxi drivers, smoking and non-smoking, in the front and in the back. We are all deeply indebted to London cabbies. Those who have travelled abroad and experienced cabs overseas will know what I mean when I say that we have the best cab service in the world. In my personal experience, a visitor to York is lucky to find a cab driver who not only knows where one...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Richard Ottaway: I have been on the underground several times in the past few weeks, and I have seen the appalling mess that the Government are getting into, but perhaps that is for tomorrow's debate. Not being a smoker, I have not had to observe whether smoking was permitted or not. It does not worry me very much whether someone is smoking. People who have given up tend to be more zealous about these...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...is sharing the compartment with another member of the public. When one hires a cab, one hires it for oneself. One does not share it with anyone. I do not think that the Government propose to ban smoking in one's own house. It therefore does not follow that if one is on one's own in the back of a cab one should not be allowed to smoke—otherwise we are getting into the nanny state. The...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...for the past 100 years should be allowed to prevail for the next 100 years. The nanny-state, interventionist side of the Liberals is coming out in the worst possible way. They want to make smoking in the back of a cab a criminal offence. They want people to be thrown out of taxis. Speaking personally, I do not agree with their proposal.

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...up to now, so why should they lose it in the future, unless we pass this ridiculous new clause? The most sensible way for the House to proceed is to recognise that a sign asking people not to smoke should be generously respected. The Minister, who is uncharacteristically smiling, gave a pledge several months ago to introduce a new clause to ban smoking in taxis. When she was put on the...

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Richard Ottaway: The hon. Gentleman just said that a non-smoking passenger would suffer increased levels of stress as a result of travelling in a cab in which the previous incumbent had been smoking. What does he mean by that?

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Richard Ottaway: Will the hon. Gentleman look at the matter from the other direction? Does he consider that, if there is not a prescribed notice in the cab and the driver is smoking, the passenger should be permitted to ask the driver to stop smoking?

Orders of the Day — Greater London Authority Bill: Smoking in London Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (4 May 1999)

Mr Richard Ottaway: Before the hon. Gentleman continues, will he say what the answer is to the question that I asked him? If the driver is smoking, can the passenger ask him to stop smoking? It is a perfectly straightforward question. Yes or no will do as an answer.

Ways and Means (13 Dec 1994)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...of what the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) said about health, although not with his political arguments. I share his concerns about the dangers of young people being lured into smoking. That is a non-political view that hon. Members on both sides of the House share. The pre-Budget submission that the Confederation of British Industry made to the Government was entitled,...

Ways and Means (13 Dec 1994)

Mr Richard Ottaway: ...help the drinks trade, especially in the south-east of England. During his short statement last week, my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor said that the introduction of excise duty on smokers would be a healthy deterrent. In my intervention on my hon. Friend the Member for Chislehurst (Mr. Sims), I asked whether it was appropriate for the medical profession to decide whom to...

Ways and Means (13 Dec 1994)

Mr Richard Ottaway: My hon. Friend says that smoking should not be encouraged and refers to its detrimental effect. He says that the Government should intervene where relevant. I hope that my hon. Friend will not go as far as consultants at the Mayday university hospital in Croydon, who refuse to treat patients who habitually smoke. After all, they are civil servants whose duty is to serve the community and not...