Results 1-16 of 16 for smoking speaker:John Reid

Written Answers — Defence: White Phosphorus (18 Jan 2006)

John Reid: holding answer 21 November 2005 British Forces possess white phosphorus munitions in Iraq for the purpose of producing a smoke screen to provide cover and thus protection for our soldiers on the battlefield. Guidelines for its use emphasise that it should not be deployed as an anti-personnel weapon. The relevant infantry training guidelines were last reviewed and training literature...

Written Answers — Defence: White Phosphorus (12 Dec 2005)

John Reid: British armed forces have used white phosphorus on Operation Telic in Iraq primarily as a smoke screen to provide cover and thus protection for our soldiers, or for target illumination. Its use in Iraq is a tactical decision authorised by commanders on the ground. Although white phosphorus does have a recognised anti-personnel effect, our armed forces go to great lengths to ensure that...

NHS Funding (9 Feb 2005)

Dr John Reid: ...of IT, which is why, recently, I put not only more effort but £95 million into that. The hon. Gentleman asked about workers in restaurants and pubs. They will be protected to the maximum where smoking is banned completely. No restaurants will allow smoking, but even in the minority of pubs that continue to allow smoking, there will be restrictions around the bar area to protect all...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...on prevention, to help people make those changes and decisions for themselves. That is why this White Paper commits us to ensuring that health services such as sexual health services, the NHS stop smoking services and obesity services all benefit fully from the drive for modernisation and improvement that is spreading across the rest of the NHS. Our starting point is informed choice. That...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...anything. That is the philosophy that ran through it. For instance, it is true that we are prepared to take the legislative and regulatory path to ensure that people are protected from second-hand smoke, but the idea that that somehow prevents the industry from moving ahead with smoke-free areas is utter fantasy. Leaving aside the fact that the industry has had several decades to do that,...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...and the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to try to ensure that in schools, on sports fields and across the health service we are working towards a common end. I realise that the smoking exemption will be controversial. My hon. Friend said that he had limited experience of standing at bars. As someone who has perhaps a little more experience of doing that, I have thought...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: .... It involves a combination of Government action, voluntary action and partnership, with legislation and regulation where necessary. There are a number of reasons why we are staging in action on smoking from 2006, 2007 and 2008. For instance, there may be a requirement for legislation for the latter stages. However, I can assure the hon. Gentleman that by 2006, Departments and the health...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...or providers, but the consumers. I therefore think that the balance that we have reached is appropriate, from the point of view of balancing the protection of the majority of people who want smoke-free areas with the protection of the rights of the minority in England who want to smoke a cigarette without damaging the health of others. That is what we have tried to do, while allowing...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...understand why it is objectionable to put such messages in a simple fashion. Ultimately, people will make their own choices. I have made it plain today that they will make their own choices about smoking and drinking; I know that as well as anybody. People make their own choices and they pull themselves out of their own ill health or their own disadvantage. The question is whether we...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...between my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales and the Welsh Assembly on a range of such matters. I hope that many of the measures in the White Paper, including perhaps those on smoking, will commend themselves to Wales. If the Assembly wants us to assist it, as we pass legislation, to carry forward its public health programme—I know that the First Minister is deeply...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...I shall think about that and come back with another idea next week. We are where we are, and a great deal of thought has gone into our proposals. It is true that the measure will not stop people smoking by itself, although it might discourage them. However, it is only one of a range of measures. We helped 125,000 people to give up smoking last year and I want to double—and...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ..., individuals. He mentioned one of the important institutes that we want to work closely with over the coming years. The fact that we have prioritised the issue in the way that we have means that smoking has taken the headlines in much of the press, but out in the real world there is a huge concern and thirst for information on healthy diets and how to combat obesity. We will certainly...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ..., as anyone is free to do in any circumstances. I merely point out that, after we accomplish the proposals that I have set out, every bar that serves food and every restaurant in England will be smoke-free, which is a huge step forward in the protection of everyone, including those who work in those environments, from passive smoking. I have also said that I want to ensure, in legislation...

Public Health White Paper (16 Nov 2004)

Dr John Reid: ...8212;I am not a member of such a club—they include some of the London clubs, along with the Royal British Legion and golf and rugby clubs that have memberships. Such bodies may or may not be smoke-free. I think that many will go smoke-free, but it will be for their members to decide.

NHS Improvement Plan (24 Jun 2004)

Dr John Reid: ..., and to foster prevention as well as providing cures. The White Paper that I will publish in the autumn will set out in more detail our plans to tackle the major causes of ill-health, including smoking, obesity and sexually transmitted infections. We will do that by ensuring that the NHS takes a leading role, but that it involves other relevant organisations. [Laughter.] I note that the...

Orders of the Day — Roads Review (31 Jul 1998)

Dr John Reid: ...that there is a particular problem with that stretch of road. If he is asking me about the pollution effects, he will know about those as well as I do. Thousands of cars parked together belching smoke into the air present what is probably the most obvious example.