Results 1-20 of 24 for smoking speaker:Lord Rooker

Written Answers — House of Lords: Civil Service: Smoking Breaks (30 Nov 2006)

Lord Rooker: The Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) introduced a ban on smoking in all government premises with effect from 1 January 2005. The policy, as detailed in the NICS staff handbook, states that, "leaving the premises to smoke will not be permitted outside of the lunchtime period taken by staff". In all cases, the time spent on lunch must be recorded. Line management has a responsibility to...

Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (9 Oct 2006)

Lord Rooker: ...not going to take much longer over the wind-up—I have been reluctant to flood noble Lords with statistics, but a few are worth repeating. Some 74 per cent of adults in Northern Ireland do not smoke, leaving an estimated 330,000 smokers. It is reckoned that 14,000 people will give up as a result of the change. Currently there are around 2,300 deaths per year from smoking-related...

Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (9 Oct 2006)

Lord Rooker: My Lords, the purpose of the Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 is to ensure that the public and employees are protected from exposure to tobacco smoke. The order would introduce provisions to control smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces. In summary, it introduces four new offences: failure to display no smoking signs; smoking in a smoke-free place; failing to prevent smoking...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Smoking: Northern Ireland (4 Jul 2006)

Lord Rooker: Preliminary discussions with a range of agencies have taken place to assess the implications of smoke-free legislation, which is scheduled to be introduced in April 2007. Once the draft Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 has completed its legislative process, further discussions will take place and guidance will be issued to employers, enforcement officers and the general public.

Food: Imports (23 May 2006)

Lord Rooker: ...businesses. The changes that have affected food production, for example in the use of technology and other matters, have been just as significant as those that have affected many of our old smoke-stack industries.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Northern Ireland: Smoking in Public Places (17 Nov 2005)

Lord Rooker: Prior to his decision to introduce comprehensive tobacco controls on smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces in Northern Ireland, Health Minister Shaun Woodward made fact finding visits to Dublin and New York. The Dublin visit took place on 4 and 5 July 2005 and involved discussions with officials from the Department of Health and Children, the Office of Tobacco Control, the...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Northern Ireland: Smoking Controls (2 Nov 2005)

Lord Rooker: The five main political parties in Northern Ireland are on record, through their party websites, as supporting comprehensive controls on smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces. All have welcomed the honourable Member for St Helen's (Shaun Woodward's) announcement on 17 October. In addition, 27 MLAs formally registered their support for such controls with the Department of Health,...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Northern Ireland: Smoking in Public Places (20 Oct 2005)

Lord Rooker: On 17 October I announced that I would introduce comprehensive controls on smoking in all enclosed public places and workplaces, including public houses and restaurants. It is my intention that the legislation will come into force in April 2007.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Northern Ireland: Smoking Controls (26 May 2005)

Lord Rooker: The Department of Health, Social Services and Pubic Safety received over 70,000 responses to a recent consultation exercise on strengthening existing controls on smoking in enclosed public places and in workplaces. Ministers are considering a detailed analysis of the outcome and an announcement about the way forward will be made as soon as possible.

Housing Bill (13 Oct 2004)

Lord Rooker: ...practice were banned from being a licence condition. The management code has not yet been finalised. We hope that when it is finalised it will recommend that good landlords will ensure that smoke alarms are installed and regularly checked. We are certain that it is appropriate also to have a condition in every licence issued that the licensee will ensure that smoke alarms are installed and...

Housing Bill (9 Sep 2004)

Lord Rooker: ...every 12 months (if gas is supplied); keeping electrical appliances and furniture in a safe condition and supplying a declaration about their safety to the local authority if requested; keeping smoke alarms in proper working order; and supplying a declaration about the condition and position of these smoke alarms to the local authority if requested. For licences issued under Part 3, the...

Housing Bill (9 Sep 2004)

Lord Rooker: ...need another ring main in the property. Such conditions will be in addition to those laid out in Schedule 4 as mandatory conditions, covering specific things such as gas safety certificates and smoke alarms. A local housing authority is required as a general rule to address health and safety issues through its Part 1 functions, and not by means of the licensing conditions. This is where...

Housing Bill (21 Jul 2004)

Lord Rooker: ...by elderly or other vulnerable people. It is often these blocks which are a cause for concern in terms of the health and safety of the occupiers. Often those houses are not fitted with adequate smoke detection equipment. The Building Regulations 1991 require alarms to be mains fitted and thus always working. According to government research into fire safety, published in 1997, persons...

Fire and Rescue Services Bill (12 Jul 2004)

Lord Rooker: ...a cost-benefit analysis of systems at various levels. We would argue that, whatever the level of research—this is not an unimportant point—it will remain vitally important to have effective smoke alarms. A fire suppression system is one thing but a smoke alarm is another. It gives those extra vital few minutes to increase the chance of escape. As I mentioned in Committee when I...

Fire and Rescue Services Bill (6 Apr 2004)

Lord Rooker: ...rescue service that helps save more lives and is better able to protect the public. Stopping fires happening and educating people about fire safety is critical, and we know that prevention works. Smoke alarm ownership has gone from 9 per cent to 76 per cent in the past 20 years. As a result 80 lives a year are believed to be saved. But we need to focus our efforts on the remaining 24 per...

Fire Deaths (24 Feb 2004)

Lord Rooker: Yes, my Lords, the department will obviously consider that suggestion, and it is an ongoing campaign. It is generally speaking the case that fire is dangerous and kills, but in many cases it is the smoke that is actually the cause of death. The smoke is highly dangerous—to victims and firefighters.

Police Reform Bill [HL] (7 Mar 2002)

Lord Rooker: ...duty under this amendment if he or she were unable to track down all those who had been present? Or let us imagine an accredited person tackling a group of children where one or two of them were smoking and drinking alcohol. If the person had to show his or her accreditation to every member of the group and to any passers-by before being able to seize the tobacco and alcohol, it would...

Yarl's Wood (25 Feb 2002)

Lord Rooker: ...people were kept completely devoid of information. I fully accept that local people have gone through a lot. When I visited Yarl's Wood at 9 o'clock in the morning, the fire was still burning. The smoke envelope was about 15 miles long. From the M1, I could not tell whether it was a cloud or smoke. We will look again at the access road. The local council refused planning permission for a...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (25 Jan 1994)

Mr Jeff Rooker: ...of improving the health of the nation, which has a by-product in reducing the financial burden on the national health service. In my view, probably 3 per cent. is not enough. I declare myself a non-smoker, but that is not the point. Smoking is the cause of the biggest killer in this country —coronary heart disease, which kills 300,000 people a year. It is a tragic loss of life, and...

Birmingham City Council (No. 2) Bill (18 Apr 1989)

Mr Jeff Rooker: But smoking kills people.