Results 1-13 of 13 for smoking speaker:Ann Widdecombe

Opposition Day: Crime (24 May 2000)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...doctors fiddled Labour's conference pledge on police numbers. By contrast, we are pledged to restore the number of police officers to the levels inherited by the Government. We say that with no smoke and no mirrors. Is the right hon. Gentleman able to confirm that the figures on police numbers given in written answers hide the real picture? Is it not the case that the figures that he and...

Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill (28 Mar 2000)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...tagging rules, they are let out before that point. Enough of them are reoffending to cause a sane person serious concern, but not apparently the Home Secretary. If he believes that soundbites and smoke-and-mirrors tricks, such as his famous fiddle on police numbers, will cut the crime rate, he is even more out of touch than I thought. Unlike the right hon. Gentleman and his friends when...

Orders of the Day — Freedom of Information Bill (7 Dec 1999)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...than was contained in the code of practice. That is a backward step, rather than a step forward. A careful examination of what the House is really being asked to consider—behind all the smoke and mirrors—will show that the Bill takes us not forward, but back. It is true that I have said that I would prefer the status quo to this Bill, which I believe will ultimately provide...

Orders of the Day — Home Affairs, Education and Employment (23 Nov 1999)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...called that freedom of information—having decided to change the test that they were imposing—the Government still describe this as a Bill for greater openness. That is typical of the smoke and mirrors of which the Home Secretary is so fond: a man who has evidently decided to rid himself of the reputation that he once had for absolutely straight dealing, and who has gained a...

Opposition Day: Home Office Issues (26 Oct 1999)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...the shadow Chancellor's attitude to police spending. My right hon. Friend has promised me that, when we return to Government, we will reverse the decline in police numbers. We will do that without smoke and mirrors, without blaming officials and without hiding behind chief constables. We will reverse the decline—that pledge from the future Chancellor of the Exchequer is absolutely...

Opposition Day: Home Office Issues (26 Oct 1999)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: More smoke and more mirrors. The position is straightforward. We introduced and put into statute what the Home Secretary misnames "the white list"—we never called it that. It was a list of safe countries of origin. He said that he would not implement it, and he made that statement not only in opposition but as soon as he came to office, thereby sending out a clear signal that he would...

Orders of the Day — Home Affairs (19 May 1997)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...had he been prepared to keep the director general in place. The issues before the House are not whether Marriott should have been suspended; I think that he should have been. They are not whether there was a smoking fax; the Opposition were confused. They are not about the precise form of words used in evidence to the Select Committee on the Marriott removal. It is purely statements made...

Asylum (Designated Countries) (15 Oct 1996)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...(Mr. Straw) gave us a long treatise on the state of Pakistan. Then, in great triumph, he referred to a letter from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The hon. Gentleman is much attached to smoking letters and other things be believes to be of great importance. All that letter did was uphold our position. We have said that a country may be generally safe, but that does not mean that there...

Holloway Prison (9 Jan 1996)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...use on this occasion meant that the full story was not told. The cameras filmed the prisoner every time she left the maternity ward and entered the public areas either to use the lavatory or to smoke a cigarette. During that time, which was prior to the confirmation of labour, she was secured. While she was in the labour ward, she was not handcuffed or manacled, even before labour was...

Points of Order (20 Feb 1990)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...at the Royal Albert hall last Saturday night involved acts of violence against several right hon. and hon. Members. During the speech of the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton), a smoke bomb was thrown, and various flour bombs were thrown throughout the proceedings—

Drug Abuse (9 Jun 1989)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...and ridiculous, even if they are not prepared to regard them as immoral. That is the argument that we have to win. We should be asking why young people experiment with drugs. Well, why do they smoke and drink? Even though smoking is declining within the population as a whole, there is a rise in teenage smoking, particularly among young girls, and the increase in drink-related offences...

Unprescribed Spectacles (Health Warnings) (5 Apr 1989)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...eye check-up and then obtain properly prescribed spectacles. It is a well-established principle that where there is likely to be danger to an individual from any course of action, whether it be smoking or anything else, a warning is issued. We would greatly improve preventive eye medicine if, in conjunction with the deregulation of the provision of reading spectacles, warnings were issued...

Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (20 Mar 1989)

Miss Ann Widdecombe: ...cigarettes. I sympathise and want to control the consumption of both those commodities. I am particularly alarmed at the increased incidence of uncontrolled drinking among the young and the increase in smoking among young girls. However, we have to be practical. A few extra pence on the price of a packet of cigarettes or a bottle of whisky will not make any real difference to consumption....