Results 1-7 of 7 for smoking speaker:Mr David Rendel

Health and Safety Commission and Executive (20 Jan 2005)

Mr David Rendel: ...may face and the difficulty that they may have in ensuring that their workplaces are, as far as possible, free from risk. The second issue, which I mentioned in an intervention, relates to passive smoking and the risk that it poses to those in work and the difficulty of avoiding it. Following the problem that British industry and its insurers have had with asbestos, and the amount of money...

Health and Safety Commission and Executive (20 Jan 2005)

Mr David Rendel: I hope to catch your eye, Mr Deputy Speaker, and talk in more detail later, but one of the risks that the hon. Gentleman may want to consider in talking about preventing long-term risks is smoking—not least passive smoking—at work.

School Funding (29 Apr 2003)

Mr David Rendel: .... I remember that £19 billion of the first comprehensive spending review turned out not to exist. It was the product of double and treble accounting. The last Budget settlement is also a product of smoke and mirrors, hence the mismatch between ministerial rhetoric and reality, about which many hon. Members have already spoken, when schools are facing a tough Budget settlement. The...

Youth Policy: Drug Education (23 Jan 2003)

Mr David Rendel: ...four young people can become addicted to tobacco after sampling just two or three cigarettes? Would it not improve education in our schools if the message to young people were not so much "Do not smoke" as "Do not even start smoking because you may become addicted very quickly"?

Education and Skills Training (19 Mar 2002)

Mr David Rendel: I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, because he misquoted me completely. I never said that the smoking of cannabis by teachers would make them more relaxed or that the smoking of cannabis was a good idea in itself. I said that a change in the law so that cannabis was no longer illegal in the way that it is now would be a good idea and make the whole of society work a lot better.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Tobacco White Paper (10 Nov 1998)

Mr David Rendel: Given that there are now hundreds of deaths every day from tobacco-related diseases, does the Minister agree that it is vital to discourage children from ever taking up smoking in the first place and that school nurses have an important part to play in that? What steps does she intend to take to ensure that there are no further cuts in the community school nursing service such as, sadly, are...

Local Government (Structural Change) (4 Jul 1996)

Mr David Rendel: ...boost the power of its urban fiefdoms, has colluded with the Government at every step of the way—not, I hasten to add, in an open and co-operative consultation, but behind closed doors and in smoke-filled rooms. Recently, some Labour Members have shown their distaste for Labour Front Benchers—[Interruption.]