Results 1-13 of 13 for smoking speaker:Tim Yeo

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Personal Carbon Trading (18 Jun 2009)

Tim Yeo: ...also claims that public support for personal carbon trading is "limited", but that has been the case with all sorts of desirable changes that have taken place. Ten years ago, public support for banning smoking in public houses would have been limited. That does not mean that it was the wrong thing to do; it was an opportunity for leadership. Going back further, before seat belts in cars...

NHS Performance Indicators (7 Jan 2004)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...has been reduced, but none of that will alter the facts of the episode that I have just described. The words of the note sent by Mr. Wilmore to the Secretary of State on 16 July 2002 are the smoking gun. Mr. Wilmore had clearly received a request from the Secretary of State—a request that, doubtless, the right hon. Gentleman assumed would never become known to the public, but a...

Public Services, Health and Education (3 Dec 2003)

Mr Tim Yeo: ..., one for the director of human and corporate resources, and one to be shared between the directors of finance and performance management and of strategy and service improvement—and two more posts in the smoking cessation department, one an administrative assistant. The bad news for the Secretary of State is that experience of office systems and a polite telephone manner are essential.

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Beef on the Bone (4 Feb 1999)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...for themselves whether to eat beef on the bone? Will the right hon. Gentleman tell the House the statistical risk of dying from eating beef on the bone and say how it compares with the risks of smoking, an activity where some individual choice is still permitted?

Clause 1: Arrangements for Provision of Residential Accommodation in Premises Managed by Voluntary Organisations etc. (1 Jul 1992)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...as other bodies, to become involved in local community care planning if they are involved in the provision of community care services. The hon. Member for Doncaster, North (Mr. Hughes) was rather smoked out by an intervention from my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington), which finally exposed his underlying hostility to NHS trusts. The hon. Member for Wakefield mentioned a...

Smoke Detectors Bill: Relaxation of Requirement as to Smoke Detectors (5 Jul 1991)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...for Upminster will not prove to be a real anxiety, if the situation unfolds as he suggested. Amendment No. 2 allows the appropriate local authority to dispense with or relax the requirement to fit smoke detectors. There are unlikely to be many situations in which the power will need to be used. The conversion of an historic house into a dwelling is a possible example, but when such a...

Smoke Detectors Bill: New Dwellings to Be Fitted with Smoke Detectors (5 Jul 1991)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...put by my hon. Friend the Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Arbuthnot), who also apologised for having to leave before the end of the debate. The approach adopted in the Bill is that smoke detectors should be installed in all new dwellings and I hope that by that example, we shall persuade owners and tenants of older dwellings also to install detectors in their homes. The Government...

Smoke Detectors Bill: New Dwellings to Be Fitted with Smoke Detectors (5 Jul 1991)

Mr Tim Yeo: I intended to refer to that point, which draws attention to a difficulty. I do not think that it will ever be possible to make 100 per cent. certain that smoke detectors are always in precisely the place that they should be, for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave during his earlier intervention. The uses of particular rooms in a house will change from time to time. Unless attention is paid...

Smoke Detectors Bill: Relaxation of Requirement as to Smoke Detectors (5 Jul 1991)

Mr Tim Yeo: .... He also took the opportunity to describe the excellent work of the Norfolk fire service, which I commend. It has already had some success with a higher than average rate of installations of smoke detectors. My hon. Friend asked important questions about the Scilly isles. The amendment deals with exceptions to the general run of things. It is expected that after the passage of the Bill...

Oral Answers to Questions — Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons: Act (10 Jun 1985)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...health education, by which I do not mean just sex education, but the whole question of teaching youngsters the importance of such issues as pre-conceptual care, of diet before pregnancy and of not smoking for those who are planning to have children. Those are all aspects which deserve greater attention than they now receive, and the way in which health education is put across in schools...

Prayers: Disabled People (29 Jun 1984)

Mr Tim Yeo: ...still a need to educate prospective parents, especially mothers, about the preparation for conception and pregnancy, including advice about the importance of pre-conceptual care and the dangers of smoking in pregnancy, which is directly associated with higher incidence of handicap. Secondly, measures need to be taken during pregnancy, notably early and regular attendance at ante-natal...

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services: Smoking (8 May 1984)

Mr Tim Yeo: asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the cost to his Department arising from the consequences of smoking.

Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services: Smoking (8 May 1984)

Mr Tim Yeo: Does my hon. Friend agree that the real cost to his Department of smoking and smoking-related disease is much higher than that and includes such items as the lifelong support of handicapped people whose handicap can be attributed to heavy smoking by their mothers during pregnancy, and the support of widows and children whose husbands and fathers have been killed by smoking? Does he further...