Results 1-20 of 151 for smoking speaker:Dawn Primarolo

[Mrs. Janet Dean in the Chair] — Sure Start (15 Oct 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...at a reasonable cost because they do not have the right equipment. I have seen the role Change 4 Life plays in many Sure Start centres, not only in relation to diet, but in working with parents on smoking cessation. That leads me to the way in which health should be partnered with Sure Start centres. The hon. Lady made the fair point that we have huge expectations because we can all see...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (4 Jun 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...cost of prescriptions for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) dispensed in England was £30,009,015. This figure does not include NRT provided without a prescription by national health service stop smoking services clinics whose figures for this activity are not collected centrally.

Written Answers — Health: Pregnancy: Health Education (7 May 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...current behaviours and/or attitudes suggest that their children are most at risk of weight gain. Change4Life currently provides information about diet and activity-related behaviours only (not smoking or alcohol consumption), and as this is a prevention campaign, it focuses on how these behaviours relate to children, i.e. what and how children eat, and how much they are physically active....

Written Answers — Health: e-Cigarettes (21 Apr 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...and the Government are working with them to protect the public from the dangers of e-cigarettes that contain toxic levels of nicotine. E-cigarettes should not be sold as an aid to quitting smoking without authorisation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Hertfordshire (24 Mar 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not available in the format requested. Data are available on the number of people setting a quit date and successfully quitting through the NHS Stop Smoking Services for West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) and East and North Hertfordshire PCT in 2006-07 and 2007-08 and for South East Hertfordshire PCT and North Hertfordshire and Stevenage PCT for 2004-05...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Yorkshire and the Humber (20 Mar 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: The information is not available in the format requested. However, data on the number of people setting a quit date and successfully quitting through the National Health Service Stop Smoking Services are available for Barnsley primary care trust (PCT) and Doncaster PCT in 2006-07 and 2007-08 and for Barnsley PCT, Doncaster Central PCT, Doncaster East PCT and Doncaster West PCT for 2004-05 to...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Health Services (18 Mar 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not available in the format requested. However, data on the number of people setting a quit date and successfully quitting through the National Health Service Stop Smoking Services are available for the Cumbria Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) in 2006-07 and 2007-08 and for the former Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) and its constituent...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (10 Mar 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: Smoke free legislation was introduced primarily to protect people from the harm of second hand smoke in enclosed parts of work and public places. On 1 July 2008 the Department published the report "Smokefree England—one year on", which gives details of the impact of the smoke free law in its first year. A copy of the "Smokefree England—one year on" report has already been placed...

Written Answers — Health: Perinatal Mortality: Research (3 Mar 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...modelling Professor Khalid Khan, University of Birmingham 319,054 NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of physical activity as an aid to smoking cessation during pregnancy Dr. Michael Ussher, St. George's, University of London 1,182,613 NIHR biomedical research centres Women's health and the newborn Professor...

Written Answers — Health: Action on Smoking and Health (23 Feb 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: The Department's grants to Action on Smoking and Health are set out in the following table. Financial year Grants (£) 2003-04 164,000 2004-05 168,000 2005-06 180,000 2006-07 185,400 2007-08 191,000

Written Answers — Health: Pregnancy: Smoking (23 Feb 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: In February 2009, the Department launched a new campaign to motivate and support pregnant smokers to stop smoking. The campaign includes information and materials for midwives, and new resources for pregnant smokers. The phrase 'there's two of you now' is not an integral element of the overall messaging of the smoking and pregnancy campaign. It has been used in communication aimed directly at...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Young People (9 Feb 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: Reducing smoking among young people is a priority for the Government. Much has already been achieved in this area, including raising the age of sale of tobacco products, legislation to strengthen sanctions available against retailers who persistently sell tobacco to children and young people, and smoking is addressed in the National Curriculum and through the Healthy Schools Programme....

Written Answers — Health: Health Education (27 Jan 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: In the 2008-09 financial year, the Department has spent the following amounts on advertising campaigns relating to smoking and drug awareness, year to date (April to December 2008): £ million Smoking 14.3 Drug awareness 0.4 The drugs prevention campaign (FRANK) is paid for jointly by the Department of Health, the Home Office and the Department for Children, Schools and...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Hertfordshire (22 Jan 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...raphy/neighbourhoodstatistics/neighbourhood-statistics:-mode l-based-estimates-of-healthy-lifestyle-behaviours-at-pco-lev el-2003-05 Information on the number of people who successfully quit smoking at the four week follow up (based on self report) in West Hertfordshire PCT and East and North Hertfordshire PCT in the last year 2007-08 are available from the "Statistics on NHS Stop Smoking...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Hertfordshire (22 Jan 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...PCT. Figures are available and provided on the number of admissions in national health service hospitals for those aged 35 and over with a primary diagnosis of diseases that can be caused by smoking and estimates of the number of those admissions that are attributable to smoking. The following table shows the number of admissions for those aged 35 and over with a primary diagnosis of...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (20 Jan 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...County are not collected. Data for England and for North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trusts (PCT) are available for 2006-07. Detailed Information on specific diseases that can be caused by smoking for England 2006-07 is available from the Statistics on Smoking: England, 2008. This information can be found in table 5.2 on page 83. This publication has already been placed in the Library....

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Young People: Smoking (19 Jan 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: I have been asked to reply. The information requested is not available in the exact format requested. Information on smoking tobacco is not readily available. While information on smoking pipes and cigars is collected for those aged 16 and over the prevalence is very low among those aged below 25 and is collected separately to information on cigarette smoking, therefore overall prevalence of...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (19 Jan 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: ...requested. Data for Stroud constituency are not collected. Data for England, Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT) and South Gloucestershire PCT are available. Information on the prevalence of smoking among adults aged 16 and over by gender and age group in England is available from the General Household Survey 2006, Table 1.1, page 15. This publication has already been placed in the...

Written Answers — Health: Tobacco: Children (15 Jan 2009)

Dawn Primarolo: .... A copy has already been placed in the Library. This summarised responses, and noted that some respondents suggested there should be new offences for those underage who try to buy tobacco, or who smoke in public.