Results 1-20 of 20 for smoking speaker:Dennis Skinner

Local Communities (26 Apr 2002)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...in a job; they have not been dragged in and they did not work in the pit. This issue has accelerated and has been accentuated in the last 20 or 30 years. It was not around when I was a kid. We used to smoke fags as we were going over the hills to school, and we thought we were involved in a great escape. Today, however, it is totally different. I have not yet got caught up with those who...

Prayers: Business of the House (24 Oct 1996)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...the second world war? They received pensions arising from their duty at the time and recently some of them and some widows have had their pensions reduced because at the time the service men were smoking. As the Leader of the House used to be in charge of social security and is a heavy smoker, does not he have a little sympathy for those people who, 50 years ago, were not aware, as people...

Associated British Ports (No. 2) Bill (23 May 1989)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ..., and apologised for that. He was given the Bill, it was nodded through its Second Reading and not amended in Committee and then we came to Third Reading three Fridays ago. The Bill, the Control of Smoke Pollution Bill, was aimed at extending the areas where smoke control could be applied by local authorities and central Government, but it had the wrong long title, which was aimed at...

Weights and Measures (Amendment) Bill (5 May 1989)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...of Fridays. The hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare was to have introduced the Bill on another occasion, but disappeared from view. We were here about four Fridays ago discussing the Control of Smoke Pollution Bill, which was aimed at repealing the Clean Air Act 1956. My hon. Friend will understand our astonishment when we saw that that was the Government's aim. When we scrutinised the Bill,...

Orders of the Day — Control of Smoke Pollution Bill (14 Apr 1989)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...better be careful about all the provisions in this Bill. I have spoken for a long time because we are dealing with a constitutional matter. We thought that today's debate would be about a minor smoke pollution control Bill, but it has not been about that at all. When I discussed the Bill earlier with my hon. Friends, we thought that it would finish fairly early—we did not know that...

Orders of the Day — Control of Smoke Pollution Bill (14 Apr 1989)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...was saying, "They have got me in a fine mess this morning." My hon. Friend the Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody) and I thought that we had come to debate a tiny straightforward Bill on smoke control, but discovered that it was completely different. Unusually, Mr. Speaker had to make a statement saying that this was almost a precedent. It has not happened for 18 years. He...

Orders of the Day — Control of Smoke Pollution Bill (14 Apr 1989)

Mr Dennis Skinner: My hon. Friend makes a reasonable point, and her remarks are not really out of order when one considers them against the background of the Government-sponsored Control of Smoke Pollution Bill, which my hon. Friend knows has changed. She arrives at the House this morning primarily to debate weights and measures and suddenly finds herself embroiled in a constitutional wrangle or crisis....

Orders of the Day — Control of Smoke Pollution Bill (14 Apr 1989)

Mr Dennis Skinner: I am trying to explain this because it is an important issue. Indeed, it is an important issue for people in your area, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because it is all about smoke and pollution. I suggest that we say, "The Government have brought in this measure but they do not know A from a bull's foot. We have tried to explain to the few colleagues who were in the Chamber what it was all about and...

Orders of the Day — Control of Smoke Pollution Bill (14 Apr 1989)

Mr Dennis Skinner: My hon. Friend is developing a reasonable argument about smoke and pollution. He may not yet have made up his mind about whether he favours "repeal" or "amend", but if we get on to that ground we shall, I think, be able to discuss the matter at some length and try to ascertain the truth. The crucial issue is whether my hon. Friend is in favour of the amendment or against it. I should like to...

Oral Answers to Questions — House of Commons: Sitting Times (Costs) (25 Apr 1988)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...Bar? Does that involve a cost on the House? Is the taxpayer having to subsidise it to keep the journalists here after hours? Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could address himself in particular to the Smoking Room, where most of the Tory Members do their boozing, and check on journalists, many of whom used to inhabit such places but for some reason do not any more, who write articles about it.

Televising of the House (9 Feb 1988)

Mr Dennis Skinner: I hope my hon. Friend will correct that. I was here when the bomb rolled under a seat on the Government side, and Tom Swain went to get it out after the smoke had disappeared.

Orders of the Day — Coal Industry (16 Jul 1987)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...a different way. He is not here now, but no doubt he will tell me later that I am right in thinking that his voice was fashioned in the canteen, when it is crowded in the morning, when there is fag smoke—unlike the doctor's surgery—when people have a problem, when the miners are a bit unsure and when there has been no consultation, as with this document. People have to raise...

Points of Order (11 Mar 1987)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...almost everything else under the sun. He said, "I am fed up to the back teeth with her telling me who I have got to take on holiday. I am fed up to the back teeth with her telling us about not smoking when she can't control her husband." Then he went on to attack the Prime Minister. That is an even better story. [Interruption.]

Orders of the Day — Housing Benefits (13 Feb 1985)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...Speaker on Saturday when I bumped into one of those who have been deprived of the benefit. We were speaking at a joint rally in Doncaster. Mr. Deputy Speaker was put in his place because he was smoking on the platform. We are debating this matter in the same week as Members of Parliament have been given the green light to get their housing benefits second time around. I understand that...

Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill (13 Dec 1983)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...of Sheffield and elsewhere. Yet only an hour ago the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry said that, notwithstanding high rates, low rates or any rates at all, regional policy had gone up in smoke. Unemployment is high throughout the country. Tory Members were on their feet calling for special consideration for their areas, which are supposed to be low rated.

Standing Orders (Revision) (30 Mar 1983)

Mr Dennis Skinner: .... There will certainly be none tonight. However, during the recess many hon. Members will be going abroad, possibly to the Caribbean or to the Cayman Islands. Many of them are probably now in the Smoking Room drinking the hours away. We are not allowed to say that they are drunk, but without a doubt some of them are half sober. It seems like disorderly conduct when they come wobbling into...

Orders of the Day — Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]: Youth Opportunities Programme (21 Oct 1981)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...purchasing power, they will throw even more young people and others out of work. They will deny to those people the chance to obtain work. I jotted down a note as I came into the Chamber. I noticed that the smoked salmon specialists were not present to talk about this real and central issue in our economy. Where are they? Not one SDP or Liberal Party Member is here. They are all eating...

Ways and Means: Tobacco Products (6 Jul 1981)

Mr Dennis Skinner: Has my hon. Friend taken into account that the tobacco increase comes only 12 months after the Chancellor of the Exchequer packed up smoking himself? He did not put it up previously.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: CBI, TUC and NEDC (16 Oct 1975)

Mr Dennis Skinner: ...the topical row in the Common Market over the seat at the top table? Is he aware that many people in the Labour Party believe that the current dispute about the seat for Britain is no more than a smoke screen to cover up a transfer of power and control over North Sea oil from Britain to some of the other Common Market countries? Will the Prime Minister guarantee that no real transfer will...

Orders of the Day — Public Safety and Respect for the Law (25 Jul 1974)

Mr Dennis Skinner: I do not smoke.