Results 1-20 of 93 for smoking speaker:David Taylor

Health Bill [ Lords] (Programme) (No. 2): Clause 22 — Power to prohibit or restrict sales from vending machines (10 Nov 2009)

David Taylor: I think that the reaction on the Opposition Front Bench is a little churlish. Speaking as the chair of the all-party group on smoking and health, I welcome the Government's living up to what they said they would do on Report. This is the right thing to do: it is the next natural step in a sensible tobacco control policy, and I congratulate the Government on implementing it.

Bill Presented: Clause 61 — Hatred against persons on grounds of sexual orientation (9 Nov 2009) has video

David Taylor: No, I have not. We have not heard any convincing arguments at all. We have seen some smoke and mirrors, and some hand-waving, but we have heard no evidence. The Minister said tonight—I paraphrase slightly—that the clause has no effect and that we can therefore dispense with it. It is true that it does not change the threshold of the offence, but that is not the same as saying that...

New Member: Schedule 6 — Repeals and revocations (12 Oct 2009) has video

David Taylor: I am delighted to follow my predecessor as chair of the all-party group on smoking and health. In 1998, the Government published their seminal White Paper, "Smoking Kills", and so brought to an end the lost decade of tobacco control. Smoking rates have been falling fast. From 1978 to 1988 the adult smoking rate in England fell from 40 per cent. to 30 per cent. Between 1988 and 1998, it snaked...

New Member: Schedule 6 — Repeals and revocations (12 Oct 2009) has video

David Taylor: ...but I voted against the Tories' proposal, because what they suggested was not enforceable. However, I would like more action on that. Someone dies prematurely every four minutes from the effects of smoking—15 people an hour, or 75 in the five hours of this debate, which would empty the Public Gallery steadily. This is a valuable step forward, and I congratulate the Government on...

Written Answers — Transport: Shipping: Smoking (12 Oct 2009)

David Taylor: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport when his Department plans to publish proposals for the regulation of smoking on (a) sea-going and (b) inland waterway vessels.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Young People (21 Jul 2009)

David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated on the effects of tobacco displays in shops on rates of smoking amongst young people.

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

David Taylor: Underpinning this debate is the principle that smoking is an addiction of childhood—it is not an adult choice. Today, 1,000 under-16s will have started to smoke for the first time by trying a cigarette, and 80 per cent. of smokers start to smoke before they are 19. The tobacco industry needs to recruit more than 100,000 new smokers each year to replace those who die or who cease...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

David Taylor: The hon. Lady is right to suggest that many factors influence smoking prevalence. Trying to control those factors, including for levels of taxation, and to identify and isolate what is happening at point of sale is difficult. The Tobacco Retailers Alliance certainly found doing that inconvenient and instead chose to use a small sub-sample of what was in essence a survey of adults. It...

Bill Presented: Health Bill [ Lords] (8 Jun 2009) has video

David Taylor: I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way, particularly as I have only just returned to the Chamber. She cites a lack of evidence in relation to point-of-sale displays and prevalent traits of smoking in young people, but studies of groups of as many as 25,000 people have shown that the 15-year-olds who are most exposed to point-of-sale displays are three times as likely to smoke as the...

Cardiac/Vascular Health (22 Apr 2009)

David Taylor: ...commissioning, research, addressing specific areas of need and particularly by a new focus on prevention. At this point, I should declare an interest as the chair of the all-party group on smoking and health, and that is the issue to which I now wish to turn. The Government's Health Bill, which is proceeding through the House, is key to a new approach to preventing the diseases that we are...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Fires: Injuries (27 Jan 2009)

David Taylor: ...the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many of the (a) injuries and (b) deaths caused by domestic fires occurred in domestic fires attributable to (i) the absence of a smoke alarm and (ii) smoking materials in the latest period for which figures are available.

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Smoking (16 Dec 2008) has video

David Taylor: As the chairman of the all-party group on smoking and health, I warmly welcome the proposals. There will not be evidence on plain packaging now, as we are the first country to suggest the measure, so it needs to be piloted in some way. May I say to the Secretary of State that I was disappointed in one aspect of the announcement—the failure to abolish vending machines, which are used as...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (19 Nov 2008) has video

David Taylor: As chair of the all-party group on smoking and health, I joined Cancer Research UK at the Department of Health today, to present a petition of more than 50,000 signatories calling for the prohibition of point-of-sale tobacco displays and tobacco vending machines, and for the introduction of plain packaging. Does my right hon. Friend agree that more measures of that kind are needed to protect...

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Television: Smoking (21 Jul 2008)

David Taylor: ...Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) if he will discuss with those involved in the production of entertainment media the possible relationship between the on-screen depiction of smoking and rates of smoking among young people; (2) whether he has received recent representations on the classification of films which show positive images of smoking.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Young People (17 Jul 2008)

David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department has conducted or evaluated on the influence of tobacco packaging on smoking rates in young people.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Young People (15 Jul 2008)

David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the estimated smoking prevalence rates were amongst (a) 11 to 15, (b) 16 to 19 and (c) 20 to 24 year-olds in each year since 1998; and if he will make a statement on the trends.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Young People (15 Jul 2008)

David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the main predictors of regular smoking among young people; and what steps he is taking to tackle them.