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Written Answers — Justice: Departmental Art Works (3 Mar 2009)

Jack Straw: ...sins remembered. Sandra Blow. 1964 "Henry IV Part 2": Sir John Falstaff and Mr Justice Shallow recruiting in Gloucestershire. Brian Robb. 1964 Interior with Figures. Francis Bacon. 1975 Icons in a Smoke-filled Room, Claes Oldenburg. 1996: published 1997 William Brown Suite, Helena Markson, 1964-1965 The Rt. Hon . Michael Wills MP The Bay. David Jones, c1929-1930 Lower Wessex Lane....

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Penal System (24 Jul 2007)

Jack Straw: ...to be true, I say to the hon. and learned Member for Harborough. The second thing I kept thinking was that something was not in the air. There was an absence, or a great reduction, in tobacco smoke, which usually fills prisons. My view is that prisoners should be able to smoke in prison cells, if they want to—

Business of the House (14 Jun 2007)

Jack Straw: ...the Secretary of State for Health has been in the vanguard of ensuring that the ban is introduced, which has already led to change in public attitudes and to much greater consideration by those who smoke of the importance of no longer smoking. We will certainly look for an opportunity for a debate.

Business of the House (14 Dec 2006)

Jack Straw: I suspect that that will result in a large number of people who gave up smoking years ago suddenly going to the doctor and saying that they require further help to quit. I shall certainly look into the problem and report back to my hon. Friend. I regret to say that my very boring prescriptions are all too accurate.

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iran (29 Nov 2005)

Jack Straw: ...does not tell us for certain is what Iran intended to do with that. It is a piece of circumstantial evidence and we need to treat it as such. It is not incontrovertible evidence—it is not a smoking gun—that makes us certain that Iran has a nuclear weapon.

European Affairs (15 Jun 2005)

Jack Straw: I entirely agree. In the rather quaintly named Foreign Ministers conclave on Sunday and three weeks ago, there was a lot of smoke and mirrors, but we were not locked in and there was no conclusion. In both discussions, I made the point to my Foreign Minister colleagues that our proposals for 1 per cent. GNI were in no sense inconsistent with the European Union being more effective—in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Police Establishment (1 Nov 1999)

Mr Jack Straw: The way in which the Conservatives produce such smoke and mirrors—if I may coin a phrase—is by picking on different dates. Crime doubled under the Conservatives, and it is one of the many reasons why it will be decades before the British public ever show the confidence to vote for them again. My hon. Friend is right about the importance of the crime partnerships. Many police...

Orders of the Day — Firearms (Amendment) Bill (Allocation of Time): Supplemental (18 Feb 1997)

Mr Jack Straw: ...in the Bills that I have just listed. It raises the crucial question of the control of handguns and the safety of the public. And what do we find? We find that suddenly, out of the Lobbies and the Smoking Room creep Conservative Members who want to stand up for what they see as a fundamental liberty: the right of Englishmen, and indeed Scotsmen and Welshmen, to hold guns. They did not...

Police Bill [Lords] (12 Feb 1997)

Mr Jack Straw: I am grateful to hon. Members on both sides of the House who have elevated me to the Privy Council, but that is premature, although some of us may hope. The Home Secretary spoke of puffs of smoke. I can only say that what was required to make him perform what has been described as a U-turn was not so much a puff of smoke as a single breath from an hereditary peer—or two or three.

Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill: Agreements for Establishment, etc. of City Technology Colleges (19 Jul 1988)

Mr Jack Straw: ...gives new meaning to the phrase "It's the tobacco that counts." The Secretary of State did not repudiate what Mr. Gerald Denis told The Times Educational Supplement on 17 June: I do not think anti-smoking campaigns should be brought into the school. We know that those who run large companies think that it is not only the tobacco but the money that counts. Mr. Denis thinks that he has...

Orders of the Day — Education Reform Bill: Agreements for Establishment, etc. of City Technology Colleges (19 Jul 1988)

Mr Jack Straw: ...of what Mr. Gerald Denis of British American Tobacco stated in The Times Educational Supplement and which he did not deny in terms when he wrote to that paper two weeks later: I do not think anti-smoking campaigns should be brought into the school."?

New Clause: Suspension of Elections and Extension of Terms of Office (30 Jul 1984)

Mr Jack Straw: ...surprise that the Secretary of State reacts to the mounting opposition from not only the Opposition and Conservative Benches but the country as a whole. It is as if, having been caught with a smoking pistol in his hand, and having then voluntarily written a statement of confession in his own handwriting, the Secretary of State, as he goes to the gallows, still protests and believes in his...