Results 1-20 of 60 for smoking speaker:Caroline Spelman

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Smoking: Public Places (14 Jun 2007)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate his Department and its agencies have made of the likely effect of the public smoking ban on levels of cigarette litter in public places.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Public Places (5 Mar 2007)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what extra funding is being provided to local authorities to support (a) the introduction of the smoking ban to be implemented in July and (b) on-going costs related to it under the New Burdens principle.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Smoking (16 Jan 2007)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether she has plans to issue revised planning guidance or a planning circular in respect of the public smoking ban.

Written Answers — Health: Smoke Free Premises and Vehicles (25 Oct 2006)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the publication of the consultation paper on Smoke-Free Premises and Vehicles, whether local authorities will be compensated under the New Burdens Principle for increased litter removal costs.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (11 Jul 2006)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding the Government plan to provide to local authorities to implement the proposed smoking ban.

Oil Depot Explosion (Hemel Hempstead) (12 Dec 2005)

Caroline Spelman: ...environmental and health considerations of the pollution, which is being dispersed over a wide area? Will any guidance be produced by DEFRA on the possible implications for local livestock if the smoke cloud falls down to earth as contaminated rain? What is the risk of contamination to the water supply? The United Kingdom is close to not having enough gas supplies for the winter, largely...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Smoking (14 Jul 2005)

Caroline Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate the Government have made of the effect of a public smoking ban on cigarette litter in the streets.

Council Tax (2 Mar 2005)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...cuts on the same areas. Would the Minister like to tell me which services he wants councils such as Southend to cut? We could spend a great deal longer than a single Opposition day discussing the smoke and mirrors deployed by this Administration in local government finance, but the fact is that the people to whom we are accountable—the tax-paying public—know that since 1997...

Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill (26 Mar 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...defined the problem of adoption. Problem definition is not the Government's strong point, as we saw with the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill. Although we all want to reduce the prevalence of smoking, it is not obvious that banning tobacco advertising will succeed in that aim without closing the floodgates on smuggled cigarettes, which the Bill failed to do. In respect of adoption, I...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Prohibition or Restriction of Use of Symbol, Name or Emblem (13 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...the point made by the hon. Member for Rother Valley. Of course we do not want to create a massive loophole through which tobacco promotion is allowed to accelerate, or to fuel the prevalence of smoking. That is the spirit of our new clause. If the hon. Gentleman needs yet more proof—

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Prohibition or Restriction of Use of Symbol, Name or Emblem (13 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: No, I am not prepared to give way. The hon. Gentleman simply will not believe our party's stance. He refuses to believe that we share the public health agenda and the aim of reducing smoking. I have grown weary of telling him that in different ways on different occasions. I am sure that the House does not want to hear it again. We shall press our new clause because the Government amendment...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Meaning of "tobacco Advertisement" and "tobacco Product" (13 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...work with the measure. One important concept missing from the Bill is product placement, which is a widely used method of advertising. We share the Government's concern to reduce the prevalence of smoking and we believe that product placement is a potent form of advertising. It might be helpful if I tried to define product placement, in case hon. Members are unfamiliar with the concept. I...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Meaning of "tobacco Advertisement" and "tobacco Product" (13 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...emphasis will be placed on raising brand awareness through this method. There may be more attempts at raising brand awareness, rather than simply presenting a familiar star or television character smoking. It is undoubtedly the goal of a company to increase its market share and, as other forms of advertising are made unavailable to it, it will seek out the remaining opportunities. The...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Meaning of "tobacco Advertisement" and "tobacco Product" (13 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...to the problem. I hope that the faith of the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) will be restored to some extent by the knowledge that we share a public health agenda in wishing to reduce smoking, especially in the vulnerable group who start smoking young and subsequently find it difficult to stop—if, indeed, they want to stop. Amendment No. 1 deals with a different subject,...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Meaning of "tobacco Advertisement" and "tobacco Product" (13 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...good, justified health education campaigns. It is quite possible that a health education poster might depict a tobacco product as part of a hard-hitting message about the health risks of taking up smoking, or continuing to smoke. I am sure that the Minister has an answer; I do not think it necessary to see more in the amendment than I have explained. Health education campaigns were...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Meaning of "tobacco Advertisement" and "tobacco Product" (13 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...museum-piece tobacco advertisements are also found occasionally in pubs. Fashion has it that such signs evoke nostalgia, as they cause some people to think back to when it was perhaps customary to smoke a pipe or to roll one's own cigarettes, using old tobacco brands that have now gone by the board. However, some of those brands are still being sold. One sometimes sees mirrors bearing the...

Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: Prohibition or Restriction of Use of Symbol, Name or Emblem (13 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...have nothing to do with the tobacco industry. Why do we want to make it so difficult for companies to diversify? Surely, with our shared public health agenda of trying to reduce the prevalence of smoking—[Interruption.] The hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston (Maria Eagle) gives me rather a contemptuous look, but I assure her that we share the Government's desire for a reduction in...

Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Consideration of Lords Amendments and further message's from the Lords (13 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...-out Bill now—but unfortunately, it will not be properly scrutinised by the Chamber. A report that was mentioned for the first time on "Newsnight" last night highlights the fact that adult smoking is rising for the first time in 30 years, according to Department of Health figures. The BBC News Online service, which also carried the story, says that that increase is thought to be a...

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: New clause 1 - Review of effect of this act (8 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...responsibility for evaluating the effectiveness of the Bill. We owe it to those who will be affected by it. It would also inform the public about the success or our legislative efforts in reducing smoking prevalence, and how much that is attributable to the ban on tobacco advertising.

Public Bill Committee: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill: New clause 1 - Review of effect of this act (8 Feb 2001)

Mrs Caroline Spelman: ...much in favour of an effective report that has a statutory basis to it, so that we can properly evaluate whether or not the Bill has been successful in meeting the Government's target of reducing smoking prevalence by 2.5 per cent. The target does not appear in the Bill. The rationale for this measure would not be apparent to any lay person reading the Bill, who would not make that...