Results 1-13 of 13 for smoking speaker:Gordon Prentice

Bill Presented: Intelligence and Security Committee (17 Jul 2008) has video

Gordon Prentice: ...Committee, it included reference to GCHQ, but in the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill currently before the House, which is being considered by a Joint Committee, GCHQ has disappeared in a puff of smoke. When the first civil service commissioner, Janet Paraskeva, came before the PAC in April, she voiced her concerns about that. I am left wondering why the thousands of staff in the...

Business of the House: Whitsun Adjournment (24 May 2007)

Gordon Prentice: ...had musical chairs. We have had the Department of Transport, the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, who disappeared in a puff of blue smoke, and now we have the Deputy Prime Minister's Office. When the Government were elected in 1997, we had the Department of Transport, which morphed through two or three subsequent creations and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Smoking Policy (21 May 2007)

Gordon Prentice: What the Commissioners' policy is on smoking in properties for which they are responsible.

Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners: Smoking Policy (21 May 2007)

Gordon Prentice: But we are only a few weeks away from the smoking ban coming in, so would it not be absolute lunacy to require cathedrals and churches to affix no smoking signs to their doors?

Written Answers — Deputy Prime Minister: Fire and Rescue Services (2 May 2006)

Gordon Prentice: ...Prime Minister on how many occasions during 2005 the fire brigade was called out to deal with incidents in hotels and similar establishments where a fire alarm had been triggered by cigarette smoke and there was no fire; what estimate he has made of the cost; and if he will make a statement.

Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Parliamentary Approval for Participation in Armed Conflict) Bill — Order for Second Reading read. — [Queen's Consent, on behalf of the Crown, signified.] (21 Oct 2005)

Gordon Prentice: ..., wants it, because my friend from Ladywood quoted his remarks from way back in 1994. He said that the "royal prerogative has no place in a modern western democracy" and that it "has been used as a smoke-screen by Ministers to obfuscate the use of power for which they are insufficiently accountable". To his credit, he argued for a vote in this place before the Government took the nation to...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (19 Jul 2005)

Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research she has commissioned on the possibility of smoking being a contributing factor in the onset of blindness; and if she will make a statement.

House of Commons Commission: Smoking (25 May 2004)

Mr Gordon Prentice: To ask the honourable Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, if the House of Commons Commission will ban smoking in the Members' Tea Room.

House of Commons Commission: Smoking (25 May 2004)

Mr Gordon Prentice: That is a good reply. I do not consider myself a health fascist in any sense, but the time has come to protect our staff and Members themselves from passive smoking. In addition, there is not a single sprinkler in the building, so this world heritage site could easily go up in flames. I hope the Catering Committee will turn its attention to this serious matter.

Rural Communities and Transport (26 Jun 2001)

Mr Gordon Prentice: ...as near Colne, but fortunately there have been no funeral pyres. All the animals have been taken away because the rendering capacity now exists, and people have been spared the torment of the black smoke and the odours of animals being burnt in those dreadful pyres. Feelings have been running high in my constituency. Many accusing fingers have been pointed at the Government and others. I...

Fire Services (Lancashire) (6 Nov 1996)

Mr Gordon Prentice: ...a tremendously damaging impact on the morale of the firefighters. Barnoldswick is a designated C risk area, but it is home to many important industries such as Silentnight Beds, which could go up in a puff of smoke. I am not suggesting for a moment that that would happen, but the materials that it uses to make beds are highly combustible. The Rolls-Royce plant that manufactures fans for...

Petition: Castle Cement, Clitheroe (Cemfuel) (20 Mar 1996)

Mr Gordon Prentice: ...my interests, as Clitheroe is not in my constituency; it is in Ribble Valley, which lies alongside Pendle, and the two constituencies are separated by the vast bulk of Pendle hill. But, of course, smoke and dust, like the wind and the rain, do not respect lines on maps. I have an interest, as the Member of Parliament next door, for environmental reasons. Indeed, on 10 January this year,...

Prayers: One-day sales (7 Feb 1996)

Mr Gordon Prentice: ...that the boxes of goods that they bought contained top-quality merchandise that was bankrupt stock. In fact they were getting cheap shoddy rubbish. Beach then disappeared like a puff of blue smoke, until I tracked him down in Cheltenham. My constituent, Mrs. Lana Ellerton, ended up with two pillows and a clock that she did not want, and she was typical of many people. She told me that...