Results 1-8 of 8 for smoking speaker:John Spellar
- Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Counselling (9 Oct 2008)
John Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been paid to stop-smoking counsellors in the last 12 months.
- Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Sandwell (23 Oct 2007)
John Spellar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the prevalence of smoking among adults in each ward in the Borough of Sandwell.
- Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Housing Executive (17 Jan 2005)
Mr John Spellar: ...Schemes Properties Schemes Properties External cyclic maintenance 82 16,207 44 8,000 Heating replacement 34 3,845 48 4,120 Bathroom/kitchen replacement 20 1,170 29 1,500 Smoke alarm installation 9 3,319 6 4,100 Total 145 24,541 127 17,720
- Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Smoking (12 Nov 2003)
Mr John Spellar: Translink has advised that there has been a smoking ban on trains since April 1997.
- Public Bill Committee: Railways and Transport Safety Bill: Clause 2 - Meaning of ''railway accident'' and (4 Feb 2003)
Mr John Spellar: ...so that safety can be improved and future accidents prevented. Of course, it is possible that an accident elsewhere might affect the operation of the railway. We see that reasonably regularly. Smoke from an office, factory or warehouse fire might blow on to a railway track and impair a train driver's visibility and might even, as we have seen, stop the train. An accident on property...
- Depleted Uranium (9 Jan 2001)
Mr John Spellar: .... We must then consider the potential cause and examine the connection to establish causation and, if necessary, a remedy. That is very much what happened with the work on lung cancer and the smoking of cigarettes. There was an epidemiological study to assess whether there was a much higher incidence of lung cancer, which was followed by work on causation. We must be concerned, but we...
- Nuclear Test Veterans (4 Feb 1998)
Mr John Spellar: ...Doll, a most eminent and respected epidemiologist, who is a world authority in his field and who was responsible for the pioneering work that established the clear connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. My hon. Friend the Member for Blaenau Gwent stressed the report by Sue Rabbit-Roff. There have been other studies, some of them of questionable statistical or scientific...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Common Agricultural Policy (23 Jun 1994)
Mr John Spellar: ...enormous problems, particularly in the southern part of Europe? What does he propose to do about the scandalous behaviour of the tobacco industry, which has produced a product that even I would not smoke and ripped off £500 million a year, a considerable amount of it due to fraud?