Results 1-11 of 11 for smoking speaker:Joan Ruddock

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy: Heating (6 May 2009)

Joan Ruddock: ..., type of wood and its calorific value and moisture content, annual fuel supply and details of the back-up system. Suppliers are also required to check whether an installation may take place in a smoke control area in which case only exempted appliances may be used.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Waste Disposal: Domestic Waste (14 Jan 2008)

Joan Ruddock: No specific assessment has been made by my Department or the Environment Agency of the level of burning of domestic waste by households in England. Complaints about statutory smoke nuisance from domestic bonfires, or the burning of other materials, are made at the local authority level. Statistics are not held centrally by my Department. However, in 2006 DEFRA published a research project to...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Domestic Wastes (8 Oct 2007)

Joan Ruddock: No specific assessment has been made by my Department or the Environment Agency on the level of burning of domestic waste by households in England. Complaints about statutory smoke nuisance from domestic bonfires, or the burning of other materials, are made at the local authority level. Statistics are not held centrally by my Department. DEFRA carried out research into emissions of dioxins...

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

Joan Ruddock: ...intention to apply similar measures to cover such bodies. My welcome for part 1 of the Bill, however, is not as enthusiastic. When I was growing up in south Wales, I did not know anyone who did not smoke. I started smoking at the age of 14. Fortunately, I did not get addicted, and when I learned the health messages I gave up, as did the rest of my family, with the exception of my father....

Modernisation of the House of Commons (26 Jan 2005)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...a huge culture shock to come to this place. Although I was used to working long hours, I was not used to dining for long hours or to going from dining to the Strangers Bar or the Tea Room or the Smoking Room. Of course, it was an age of extraordinary, and occasionally great, oratory in the House, but part of the long-hours culture was built around one that was already disappearing from...

Breast Cancer Strategy (23 Oct 2001)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...and how the Government will foster their partnerships with the charitable and voluntary sector? Investment in research must be the cornerstone of any prevention strategy for breast cancer. Better smoking cessation services and the national "Five a day" programme were welcome in tackling many other cancers but will not, I believe, have a very direct impact on the incidence of breast cancer....

Air Pollution (17 Apr 1996)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...Gentleman, at times it can be life-threatening. Particulate matter pervades all our environments. In towns and cities, it is most obvious when it is close at hand, in the form of the noxious black smoke that emanates from road vehicles. Many industrial processes, while cleaner today than perhaps ever before, still add to the burden of particulates. Less well known, and not referred to in...

Opposition Day: Transport and the Environment (31 Oct 1994)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...poisoning ourselves with petrol emissions and pretend that it is our fault alone. The nation's health is the Government's responsibility. Let us look at the record again. Since 1979, emissions of black smoke from motor vehicles have increased by 78 per cent. Black smoke causes respiratory problems and may cause cancer. Emissions of nitrogen oxides have increased by 74 per cent.—they...

Orders of the Day — Road Traffic Bill: Random Breath Testing at Roadside Checkpoints (26 Feb 1991)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...or would seek to ban all alcohol or dissuade people in a general sense from taking alcohol with it is safe to do so. It would also be wrong to imply that I am not concerned about the hazards of smoking and that we have not done our best to campaign against that as well.

King's Cross Fire (Fennell Report) (12 Apr 1989)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...escalators. As the Secretary of State knows all too well, that is not so. Mr. Fennell refers to 46 serious escalator fires on the Underground, and in 32 of them the cause was established or attributed to smokers' materials. But did LRT learn the lesson? Unhappily, it did not. Appendix J shows how devastating its complacency was and how ineffective the inspectorate was in changing London...

Orders of the Day — Defence (8 Jul 1987)

Ms Joan Ruddock: ...It stated: Phantom flyers in the sky, Persian-pukes prepare to die, Rolling in with snake and nape, Allah creates but we cremate. North of Tehran, we did go, When the FAC said from below, 'Hit my smoke, and you will find, The Arabs there are in a bind'. I rolled in at a thousand feet, I saw those bastards, heating feet, No more they'll pillage, kill and rape, `Cause we fried 'em, with...