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Opposition Day — [20th Allotted Day]: Post Office Card Account (10 Nov 2008) has video

Andrew Stunell: There is a glint of light in this debate, through the smoke and mirrors, from those on the Government Front Bench. They seem to have moved from hostility to uncertainty, and surely that is good as far as the card account is concerned. The right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman), with his customary disingenuousness, suggested that the card account had been introduced by...

Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (Programme) (No. 3): Clause 184 — Conduct that may be covered by code (24 Oct 2007)

Andrew Stunell: Three possible offences come to mind: smoking in an enclosed public place, speeding and litter dropping. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that we need to avoid more minor offences leading to referral to the Standards Board or a local standards committee?

Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (Programme) (No. 3): Clause 184 — Conduct that may be covered by code (24 Oct 2007)

Andrew Stunell: ...business. I welcome the fact that the phraseology now narrows the provisions, so that only those things that are criminal offences when someone has their overcoat on will come to light. I mentioned smoking. I do not smoke, so it is not a problem for me, but it would be a brave Member of the House who said that they had not done anything in even the past six months that, had they been in...

Welfare Reform Bill (Programme) (No. 2): Climate Change (12 Oct 2006)

Andrew Stunell: .... It is now very well observed, however, and people believe that wearing seat belts simply goes with being in the car. Another parallel example that I have cited many times before is that of smoking on the London underground. Smoking on the London underground was always illegal, but it stopped when the King's Cross fire took place. Not even the yobs smoke on the underground nowadays,...

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Andrew Stunell: Does that mean that the right hon. Gentleman will be supporting the Liverpool City Council (Prohibition of Smoking in Places of Work) Bill, which would introduce exactly such a ban?

Orders of the Day — Smoking in Public Places (Wales) Bill (18 Mar 2005)

Mr Andrew Stunell: ...as a Welsh Member but as someone who represents a constituency in the borough of Stockport, which had the misfortune a few years ago to be the first local authority that had to pay out on a passive smoking compensation claim by an employee. It has been, perhaps understandably, sensitive to the issue ever since. I am a non-smoker and I declare that I have done no pheasant shooting in...