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Public Houses (26 Mar 2009) has video

Laurence Robertson: ...downturn, which obviously is not helping any business. I will name just a few: high tax; competition with supermarkets; pubcos, which are the organisations that own the pubs; the weak pound, to some extent; and the smoking ban. All those problems have contributed; I should like to take each of them in turn. There are two worries as regards tax. It is sometimes difficult to get exact...

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Expenditure (17 Jul 2007)

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of treating patients who are ill as a result of (a) alcohol, (b) smoking, (c) obesity and (d) poverty-related issues in the last 12 months.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (18 Jul 2006)

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to make regulations concerning the prohibition of smoking in enclosed public places; and if she will make a statement.

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Laurence Robertson: Has the hon. Gentleman considered the logical conclusion of his argument, which is that there is great demand for pubs in which people can smoke?

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Laurence Robertson: Amendment No. 36 accepts that there may be a case for banning smoking in certain public places, but excludes pubs, restaurants and clubs and, indeed, the home. I declare that I am a smoker, but I consider myself to be a considerate smoker. I would not want to smoke in anyone's car, house or office, or even in their company, unless they were happy with that or smoked themselves. It is because...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Laurence Robertson: I am sorry, but I do not have time. Many staff in pubs smoke themselves and many small country pubs will be threatened by the ban. We hear, especially from Labour Members who oppose an exemption for private clubs, that people will flock from the pubs into such clubs. The logical conclusion of that argument is that there is a great demand for pubs that allow smoking, and many of them are small...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)

Laurence Robertson: Will the Secretary of State confirm that a mass murderer in prison will be able to exercise his right to have a cigarette, even though prison staff will inhale his smoke, yet law-abiding people who go into pubs will not be able to do so?

Disabled Children's Assessment and Services: Disabled Children's Assessment and Services (14 Feb 2006)

Laurence Robertson: ...I endorse the comments made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth). You will note, Mr. Speaker, that my amendment No. 36 accepts that some places may be deemed smoke-free but that licensed premises would not be smoke-free and thus not caught by the legislation. Is it your intention to allow a vote on that amendment too, if we get to that point?

Lottery Grants (Gloucestershire) (7 Feb 2006)

Laurence Robertson: .... Quite a number of rural post offices have closed, and, if I may be controversial for a moment, the hunting ban has not helped the countryside. I put that very gently. A number of rural pubs in my area are also very concerned about the proposed smoking ban. There are pockets of deprivation in my constituency. People perhaps think of Tewkesbury as a good Tory seat, which must be rich, but...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Laurence Robertson: I am a smoker, but I consider myself to be a very considerate smoker. I would not smoke in someone else's house, car or office, or near anyone who was having a meal. It is because I have that consideration for others that I find the parts of the Bill that relate to smoking totally objectionable. I agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) when he...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Laurence Robertson: ...in those that suit them. As many Members have mentioned, if we take the assertion that staff are the primary concern a step further, how can it be right to expose some people in some pubs to smoke, and yet say that in other pubs where food is served people will be protected from a smoky atmosphere? That defies logic. It is nothing to do with liberty. We know why the Government have adopted...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Laurence Robertson: The hon. Gentleman has made his point. If he will forgive me, I shall not respond to it in detail because there is not enough time. If the Government are serious about stopping people smoking, which I do not doubt, and if smoking is so bad for us, which I do not doubt either, why do they not ban smoking altogether? There is a one-word answer: tax. We have heard from a number of Members how...

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Laurence Robertson: Did my hon. Friend discuss secondary smoking with the previous Health Secretary, who said that if smoking were banned in most pubs—as it will be, because most pubs serve food—people would be likely to stay at home to have a drink and smoke? That is exactly where their children are. People have a choice whether to go into a pub, but children do not have a choice about breathing in...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Smoking (15 Nov 2005)

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of smoking-related diseases in Northern Ireland.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Smoking (15 Nov 2005)

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the number of people in Northern Ireland who smoke; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Treasury: Smoking Ban (14 Oct 2005)

Laurence Robertson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the likely change in tax revenues which would result from a ban on smoking in public places; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking-related Diseases (9 Feb 2005)

Mr Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of treating people with smoking-related diseases; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking-related Diseases (8 Feb 2005)

Mr Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the procedures adopted by the NHS in determining whether a patient is suffering from a smoking-related disease.

Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Laurence Robertson: ...they are considerable—than about the problems associated with drugs. I return to my point that the message about drugs is not consistent and is not strong enough. Potentially, we are turning smokers into criminals, if the Government are returned. It seems that those who have a social drink or a social smoke are being treated like pariahs, yet drug takers are having far more tolerance...

Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mr Laurence Robertson: I am following the hon. Gentleman's argument about the connection between prohibition and usage. By way of analogy, would he support a ban on smoking in public places, particularly pubs and restaurants?