Results 1-12 of 12 for smoking speaker:Alan Whitehead
- Local Taxation (4 Jul 2005)
Alan Whitehead: ...of the local income tax proposals—as currently presented, for all I know, in the Cheadle by-election—is that rises are kept down to about 3.5 per cent. a year, which can only be done by smoke and mirrors.
- Fire Safety (27 Jan 2005)
Dr Alan Whitehead: ...that have appeared in a paper in my part of the world over recent months and years. One headline says "House Blaze Kills Pensioner", and goes on to explain that the incident occurred "after the smoke alarm failed to go off." Another headline reads "Garment on heater sparks fire in flat", and tells of how a family had to evacuate a Gosport flat. Another article reports that a pensioner from...
- Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Gender Impact Assessment (10 Apr 2002)
Dr Alan Whitehead: ...to make use of consultations, research projects and disaggregated statistics to identify the impact of policy on women. Specific examples include consultation of various women's organisations on smoking in taxis and the development of a public transport gender audit, which was published in March 2000. Other initiatives include the requirement to promote social inclusion (including meeting...
- Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: House Fires (29 Jan 2002)
Dr Alan Whitehead: ...through greater efforts in educating householders, by means of publicity campaigns, about what measures they can take to make their home safer from fire. It has been our policy for some time that smoke alarms have a vital role to play in saving lives as they provide the vital early warning of fire and therefore help people to escape. Since 1987, when the cost of smoke alarms became...
- Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Smoke Alarms (17 Jan 2002)
Dr Alan Whitehead: Smoke alarms were installed but failed to operate in 8 per cent. of dwelling fires attended by Buckinghamshire fire brigade in 1999 (the latest year for which data are available). Data are not available below fire brigade level.
- Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Smoke Alarms (27 Nov 2001)
Dr Alan Whitehead: We encourage the fire service to provide and install smoke alarms to householders as part of their general community fire safety work. Brigades focus their efforts mainly on those households deemed to be at high risk from fire. The implementation of such work is down to individual brigades to determine, using local data and statistics to highlight where within their brigade area fires are...
- Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Smoke Alarms (19 Nov 2001)
Dr Alan Whitehead: No specific work has been done to assess the cost-benefit of fire services providing smoke alarms free of charge to householders. However, we do encourage the fire service to adopt a policy of smoke alarm installation work rather than give-away initiatives when offering free smoke alarms to the public as part of community fire safety activities. This is based on part-Government funded...
- Rail Franchises (16 Nov 2001)
Dr Alan Whitehead: ...services in that constituency. The names of the stations Whitton, St. Margarets, Fulwell, Hampton and Strawberry Hill flash before my eyes, although in those days some of the stations were serviced by trains with smoke coming out somewhere near the front. South West Trains was included in the first batch of franchises for replacement in 1999. Following a competitive process, the Strategic...
- Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: New Homes (1 Nov 2001)
Dr Alan Whitehead: When the fire safety aspects of the Building Regulations in Approved Document B were amended in 1992, provision was included for mains wired, interconnected smoke alarms to be provided in all new dwellings, resulting in new homes being provided with smoke alarms since 1992. Although there are currently no plans to revise the Building Regulations to include provisions for domestic sprinkler...
- Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Storage Premises (Fires) (25 Oct 2001)
Dr Alan Whitehead: ... 3,338 1997(23),(24) 3,975 726 3,249 1998(23),(24) 3,916 771 3,145 1999(23),(24),(25) 4,120 757 3,363 (23) Figures are based on sample data (24) Including late call and heat and smoke damage incidents (25) Provisional The number of fires within these categories before 1994 is not directly comparable with data for later years. Since 1994 the statistics have included late...
- Written Answers — Transport, Local Government and the Regions: Asbestos Deaths (20 Jul 2001)
Dr Alan Whitehead: ...,000 lung cancer deaths each year may also be attributable to asbestos, but these cannot be determined exactly since they are individually indistinguishable from cancers due to other causes such as smoking.
- Written Answers — Home Department: Fire Alarms (Humberside) (3 Jul 2001)
Dr Alan Whitehead: I have been asked to reply. The information relates to fires in dwellings where a smoke alarm was present that were attended by the Humberside local authority fire brigade in 1999. 2000 data are not yet available. In 38 per cent. of cases the smoke alarm operated and raised the alarm. In 15 per cent. of cases the smoke alarm operated but failed to raise the alarm. In 47 per cent. of cases the...