Results 1-15 of 15 for smoking speaker:Jacqui Lait

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Smoking: Enforcement (19 Oct 2007)

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what procedures she has in place for (a) recording and (b) proceeding against (i) ministers and (ii) staff who breach the ban on smoking in enclosed public places; and if she will make a statement.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Smoking: Planning Permission (26 Jul 2007)

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government whether outdoor smoking shelters require planning permission; and what guidance her Department has given to local planning authorities on them.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (27 Mar 2006)

Jacqui Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to conclude her review of the continuation of smoking in psychiatric hospitals and mental health facilities in private, public and charitable ownership.

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Jacqui Lait: All my life, I have been chary of having good done unto me, and I am afraid that I put the part of the Bill that relates to smoking into that category. That part of the Bill is all that we appear to be talking about tonight. I have always been uneasy about a nanny state. I loathe smoking—I have never smoked—yet I am having to come to terms with an attempt to stop people doing...

Debate on the Address (6 Dec 2000)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: ...of advertising on tobacco consumption. The only reliable evidence that I could extract from all the humbug that the Select Committee heard amounted to two points. First, the only thing that stops people smoking is high prices. Secondly, advertising encourages people to change brands; it does not get them hooked. Many people are becoming hooked on tobacco because the Government are...

Petition: Tourism (New Millennium) (18 Jun 1999)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: ...to what I was going to say. On the day that the Government announce that tobacco advertising will be banned before Christmas, they should be concerned about the fact that the number of people smoking is increasing by 2 per cent. a year. I suggest with the utmost humility that there is a correlation between the increase in smoking and the differences in excise duty. It is ironic that, in a...

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (20 Apr 1999)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: ...from somewhere that far away—not to mention the profits made by smuggling from Europe, especially from Belgium. Inevitably, we are seeing the knock-on effects on health. The fact that the number of people smoking in this country is increasing has been confirmed by studies by Mintel, the British Market Research Bureau and several other respectable organisations. The Department of...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Rates of Tobacco Products Duty (28 Apr 1998)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: I am somewhat uneasy in this debate on tobacco because I am not a smoker—I loathe smoking—and I believe that the most effective policy is a high tax policy. The problem is that the level of smuggling and bootlegging means that we do not have a high tax policy. Trying to get organisations such as Action on Smoking and Health, and the Government, to recognise that we do not have...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill: Rates of Tobacco Products Duty (28 Apr 1998)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: ..., and it cannot be beyond the wit of the Treasury to do so. Another point of which the Government have made great play and with which I have great sympathy is the effect on health of increased smoking. High levels of duty mean that, when youngsters can get hold of cheap tobacco, they are likely to do so. I asked the Library for information about the worrying increase in the number of...

Finance (No. 2) Bill (21 Apr 1998)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: ...a huge difference between the cost of tobacco sold legally and the cost of tobacco sold through bootlegging and smuggling, any policy that we may wish to introduce—and, believe me, as a non-smoker, I recognise the damage that tobacco can do to people's health—will never encourage people to give up smoking. We are increasing the number of people who smoke and the Treasury is...

Oral Answers to Questions — Tobacco Advertising (24 Feb 1998)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: Is not the high cost of tobacco one of the most effective deterrents to smoking? What discussions has the Minister had with her fellow Ministers in the Health Council about raising the excise duty on tobacco in other European countries so that bootleggers and smugglers can no longer undercut our high taxation policy by selling cheap tobacco to youngsters?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Cigarette Smoking (18 Jul 1995)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: Is my hon. Friend aware that one of the reasons why there has been an increase in smoking among young people is the prevalence of cheap, smuggled tobacco? What is he doing in the Council of Health Ministers to raise public awareness of that issue in the other European countries?

Tobacco and Alcohol Smuggling (24 May 1995)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: ...can get cheap supplies. I am fascinated that those involved in lobbying on health issues find it so difficult to come to terms with the fact that vulnerable groups such as the young, among whom tobacco smoking is increasing, have access to much cheaper cigarettes. They cannot seem to grasp the threat which that poses to young people's health in the long term. One of the most profitable...

Ways and Means (13 Dec 1994)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: ...nation. My hon. Friend the Member for Chislehurst (Mr. Sims) defended the high taxation of tobacco. I have every sympathy with that, as I pointed out to him at the time. I am a non-smoker. I loathe smoking and I find it exceedingly difficult when I address the problem. I also find it very difficult when I deal with people in the health industry—I use that term in its wider...

Ways and Means (13 Dec 1994)

Mrs Jacqui Lait: As my hon. Friend knows, I share many of his views about a policy of high taxation acting as an effective deterrent against smoking. Will my hon. Friend share his thoughts on the availability of cheap cigarettes, particularly to the young market, through illegal importation? Does my hon. Friend agree that that undermines our policy of high taxation?