Results 1-5 of 5 for smoking speaker:Gary Streeter
- Alcohol Services (Plymouth) (27 Jun 2006)
Gary Streeter: .... It strikes me that one of the key things that must happen in this country is the development of greater awareness of the difficulties and dangers of excessive drinking. When those who still smoke reach for their packet of cigarettes, they see huge warnings telling them that smoking kills, and smoking can damage their health. I wonder whether we are many years away from putting similar...
- Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill (1 Nov 2004)
Mr Gary Streeter: ...are my starting point in approaching a subject of this nature. We must also recognise that many people out there suffer disproportionately from the impacts of some of those choices. In respect of smoking, drinking alcohol, drug taking, access to credit and gambling we already restrict people's choices. We have laws about drugs, tobacco advertising, alcohol sales and gambling because of the...
- Written Answers — Health: Smoking (9 Jun 2004)
Mr Gary Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment the Government have made of the impact of people smoking on television and in films upon young people's decision on whether or not to start smoking.
- Public Bill Committee: Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill: Clause 19 - Advice of the Electoral Commission (18 Dec 2002)
Mr Gary Streeter: ...it will be too expensive to allow the Electoral Commission to do the work and a junior Minister will work out the boundaries as cheaply as possible on the back of a fag packet, if we still have smoking in this country then. Perhaps—hon. Members can tell that I have thought deeply about this—the Government intend not to do the work themselves, but to take it away from the...
- Public Bill Committee: Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill: Clause 8 - Provision of information to voters (10 Dec 2002)
Mr Gary Streeter: ...of the 2000 Act sets out a limited range of circumstances in which a Minister may make an order, and that they will probably be clearly defined and closely controlled. However, this is the sort of smoke-and-mirrors operation that we have come to associate with this Government. Section 109(6) of the 2000 Act states: ''The Secretary of State may, in the case of any referendum to which...