Results 1-16 of 16 for smoking speaker:Eric Pickles

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Non-Domestic Rates: Licensed Premises (14 Jan 2009)

Eric Pickles: ...b) the Valuation Office Agency has taken to raise awareness amongst the licensees of licensed premises of the change of policy on material changes of circumstances arising from the prohibition of smoking on licensed premises.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Smoking: Departmental Co-ordination (18 Nov 2008)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what discussions he has had with the Department of Health on the effect of the public smoking ban on levels of (a) noise nuisance and (b) smoking-related litter.

Written Answers — Treasury: Non-domestic Rates: Valuation (28 Oct 2008)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the Valuation Office Agency's non-domestic rating guidance, RAT IA, as amended to include advice on the smoking ban.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Domestic Wastes: Waste Disposal (14 Jul 2008)

Eric Pickles: ...answer to the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) of 29 January 2008, Official Report, column 245W, on waste disposal: domestic waste, when the research reports on (a) bonfire smoke complaints and (b) emissions of dioxins will be placed in the Library.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Smoking (18 Dec 2007)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether any (a) Ministers and (b) staff have been disciplined for breaching the public smoking ban on her Department's premises, and the premises of its agencies, since its coming into force.

Written Answers — Home Department: Surveillance: Local Authorities (18 Oct 2007)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance the Office of Surveillance Commissioners has provided to local authorities on surveillance in relation to (a) the public smoking ban and (b) rubbish collection and waste disposal; and how many inspections of local authorities have taken place in relation to each.

Written Answers — Home Department: Surveillance: Local Authorities (18 Oct 2007)

Eric Pickles: ...Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the local authorities inspected by the Office of Surveillance Commissioners in 2006-07 used surveillance for (a) enforcement of the public smoking ban, (b) tackling fly-tipping and (c) other issues relating to waste collection and disposal.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Fines (17 Oct 2007)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate his Department has made of the likely number of fines to be issued for non-compliance with the public smoking ban in the first year of operation in England.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (25 Jun 2007)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what requirement churches and other places of worship have to display no-smoking signs once the public smoking ban is introduced in England.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Legislation (26 Mar 2007)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance her Department has provided to local authorities on enforcing the public smoking ban.

Written Answers — Health: Smoke-free Legislation (17 Jan 2007)

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the funding provided to local authorities to support the implementation of smoke-free legislation set out in Local Authority Circular LAC 2006(17) includes provision for potential increased costs of street cleaning.

Local Taxation (10 Feb 2004)

Mr Eric Pickles: ...of a certain age and earnest young women sporting tank tops. It belongs with such other Liberal Democrat policies as giving the vote to prisoners, legalising cannabis while simultaneously banning smoking in public and outlawing goldfish from funfairs. It is the hon. Gentleman's misfortune to have to try to make the misdirected policy credible. I tell him, with oodles of affection, that he...

Foot and Mouth (26 Apr 2001)

Mr Eric Pickles: ...they should be putting their stock out to grass. What advice will be available, given that one of the first pyres was lit in my constituency at a time when there was quite a lot of wind and the smoke spread throughout my constituency and changed direction? What advice will be given to those on farms close to the pyre and close to the fallout of the pyre? Should stock be put out to graze,...

Opposition Day: Foot and Mouth (28 Feb 2001)

Mr Eric Pickles: ...sorry to learn that a further outbreak of foot and mouth disease has been found in Essex. Chelmsford is very close to the abattoir in my constituency where the disease was found. The sight of the smoke that rose over my constituency from a great cauldron on Monday was depressing; I am sure that it will remain with me for a long time. I suspect that I have had a foretaste of what other...

Foot and Mouth Disease (26 Feb 2001)

Mr Eric Pickles: The Minister will understand the great shock in my constituency and the fear within the local farming community, which has been reinforced by the billowing smoke that is over Warley. Over the weekend, I spoke to Mr. Gemmel, a farmer who is one of the victims of the foot and mouth disease outbreak. He is showing great restraint and dignity while seeing his life"s work destroyed. I spoke a...

British Film Industry (3 Mar 1999)

Mr Eric Pickles: ...Monty"; that film grossed $35 million in the United States, and "Trainspotting" grossed $16.5 million. All the successful films of the past few years—"Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Secrets and Lies"—were produced with budgets of less than £3 million. The second factor is that there is now more openness and friendliness from the...