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Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Bingo (24 Jan 2008)

Paddy Tipping: ...calling the numbers at the Byron bingo and social club in Hucknall. Will the Minister listen to the concerns of staff and customers, at the Byron and across the sector, about the effects that the smoking ban and the taxation system have had on the industry's future? Will she look closely at bringing forward proposals in the Budget to help secure that future?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Tobacco Duty (14 Oct 2004)

Mr Paddy Tipping: Are not health and education programmes the most appropriate way in which to help people—particularly people from low-income families—quit smoking, rather than simply pricing them out of the market?

Programming of Bills: I. Programme orders: supplementary provisions (7 Nov 2000)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...of all colours do just that. All that time-wasting does is to reduce us to the state of the Member who, in 1902 was reported as being so unoccupied that he was knitting a pair of stockings in the smoking-room.—[Official Report, 20 February 1902; Vol. 103, c. 663.] Our proposals in response to the Modernisation Committee report are designed to ensure that Members will know when they...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (28 Nov 1996)

Mr Paddy Tipping: ...8230; in the library at No. 11 Downing Street. I contrast that buoyant approach with the attitude of the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Lady Olga Maitland). Some people are well housed and can smoke cigars and drink whisky; but others do not have much and, in all good faith, we should try to help them. Is this a buoyant Budget for Nottingham and the nation? The theme of today's debate...