Results 1-5 of 5 for smoking speaker:Tony Wright
- Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)
Tony Wright: ...that. The more that we can decide issues in this way, the better it will be for Parliament, and not just because it is sometimes politically convenient. It is a good thing that we are going to ban smoking in public places tonight, but it is extraordinary that we did not do it a long time ago. It is such an obvious public health measure and Parliament should have turned its attention to it...
- Orders of the Day — Health Bill: New Clause 5 — Smoke-free premises: exemptions (14 Feb 2006)
Tony Wright: Under new clause 5(7), would it be possible to have designated smoking rooms in all kinds of premises by regulation?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (12 Mar 2003)
Dr Tony Wright: ...to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council". It says nothing about disarmament, nothing about human rights and nothing about terrorism. Is not that the smoking gun?
- Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords] (26 Apr 1994)
Dr Tony Wright: ...they were all very distinguished people. The problem was that none of them was politically acceptable to the Home Secretary, so we had to wait and wait, until, rather like waiting for the puff of smoke in the Vatican, a retired admiral was found last week. Of course, there is nothing wrong with retired admirals but the irony is that the choice took so long and many were rejected before...
- The Health of the Nation (22 Oct 1992)
Dr Tony Wright: ...to look round the Palace of Westminster to see what this particular employer is doing. Anyone who visits the eating places, meeting places and bars will find that there is no effective non-smoking policy. I know that we are supposed to favour the politics of smoke-filled rooms, but it seems that the Mother of Parliaments has become the ashtray of the nation. Would the right hon. Lady like...