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Written Answers — International Development: Indoor Air Pollution (31 Mar 2004)

Mr Hilary Benn: ...;the main source of cooking and heating for half the global population. Women are disproportionately affected because the burden of cooking tends to fall on them. In addition, high levels of indoor smoke pollution can have a particularly bad effect on the health of small children, increasing mortality from pneumonia. DFID is working to develop a multi-sector approach to this issue, that...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: New clause 24 - Powers of confiscation (27 Feb 2003)

Mr Hilary Benn: ...and Young Persons Act 1933 already allow uniformed police officers to seize and confiscate any tobacco-related product found in the possession of anyone apparently under the age of 16 found smoking in public. Under the 1933 Act, possession of tobacco by a young person is an offence, except in very limited circumstances. I am not sure whether that helps us resolve the issue raised by my...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 10 - Drug testing for under-eighteens (7 Jan 2003)

Mr Hilary Benn: No; that is the honest answer to my hon. Friend's question. The correlation to which he drew attention between cigarette smoking and the use of harder drugs at a later age is an interesting one. I should be interested to see the research to which he referred. Responding further to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, North, those aged between 10 and 13 who commit one...

Public Bill Committee: Criminal Justice Bill: Clause 9 - Power of arrest for possession of Class C drugs (7 Jan 2003)

Mr Hilary Benn: ...circumstances, which is why I am confused by his argument—are not sufficient. For example, the advice is that the public order offences that he mentioned would not cover an individual blowing smoke into an officer's face. I genuinely do not understand his position, because I think that there is a general, if not total, consensus in support of the reclassification, which the Home...