Results 1-9 of 9 for smoking speaker:Andrew Robathan

European Union (30 Jun 2005)

Andrew Robathan: ...from the CAP, my personal opinion is that it should be scrapped. How much longer will we proceed with British taxpayers supporting tobacco production? British taxpayers pay to stop tobacco being smoked here, so why should they pay for tobacco to be produced in Greece and elsewhere?

Trade and Development (WTO) (30 Oct 2003)

Mr Andrew Robathan: The Minister may think that this slightly beyond his remit, but given the money that we spend on trying to stop people smoking, is it not rather strange that taxpayers' money should be spent on subsidising the production of tobacco exports?

Debate on the Address (6 Dec 2000)

Mr Andrew Robathan: ...advertising, which was the subject of a private Member's Bill in 1993, although I cannot remember the name of the Member who introduced it. I thought the measure sensible. I am passionately anti-cigarette smoking. The day before the Bill was introduced, I was telephoned by people from the tobacco industry—I had been entertained to dinner or lunch by them not long before—who...

Debate on the Address (6 Dec 2000)

Mr Andrew Robathan: ...sure that we would prefer it not to be released on the open market to ensure that people did not get addicted to it. I have two children and I desperately hope that they will not take up cigarette smoking. Occasionally, I smoke a cigar. I do not want smoking to flourish. My logic is that if adults want to smoke, it is up to them, and the nanny state should not rule on the case....

Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill (25 Jan 2000)

Mr Andrew Robathan: ...agreement. Indeed, clauses 2 and 3 refer to the agreement, or the Northern Ireland Act 1998, yet we now know that it is entirely linked to the agreement through deals behind closed doors, in smoke-filled rooms, in underground bunkers in Armagh, or wherever the deals may have been made. The Bill is entirely linked to the 1998 Act and the agreement. Those of us who genuinely want peace in...

Parental Authority (25 Jan 2000)

Mr Andrew Robathan: .... Care workers are struggling with great difficulties in children's homes. I recall visiting one a few years ago in Leicestershire, and being told that staff had no power to prevent children from smoking. They could not, of course, restrain a child if he or she wished to go out in the evening. The house stank of cigarettes, 13-year-olds were becoming chain smokers and 14-year-old girls...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Rate of Duty on Beer (28 Apr 1998)

Mr Andrew Robathan: Is it not strange that Labour Members laugh when they hear that my hon. Friend gets information from real life, instead of from the smoke-filled rooms of Labour party politics?

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Common Agricultural Policy (8 Dec 1994)

Mr Andrew Robathan: ...of State for Health, and I know that he disapproves of the European Community's subsidising tobacco. I understand that the Department of Health spends £20 million on encouraging people not to smoke. What plans will my right hon. Friend present to stop the Community from spending £500 million or more on tobacco growing?

New clause 1: Entry into Force (Own Resources) (7 Dec 1994)

Mr Andrew Robathan: Would the new clause allow the House to scrutinise what is happening right now, when taxpayers' money to the tune of about £20 million is being spent on advertising to discourage smoking while £1 billion—I think that it is pounds and not ecu—of resources which come mainly from the British taxpayer is being spent in the European Union on producing tobacco which is...