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Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day]: Higher Education (14 Oct 2009) has video

David Lammy: ...to widening university participation. If only those wise aims were matched by wise means. Instead, we have heard a succession of sketched-out proposals that have vanished into thin air like smoke from the Bullingdon club's after-dinner parties. The hon. Gentleman has described the latest proposals in instalments over the past few months. One idea was to charge 8 per cent. interest on...

Written Answers — Innovation, Universities and Skills: Smoking (19 May 2008)

David Lammy: ...facilities for my Department are provided on our behalf by the Department for Children Schools and Families and the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Any details relating to smoking shelters will therefore be included in answers given by those Departments.

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Tourism: Smoking (16 Apr 2007)

David Lammy: None. Evidence from the Republic of Ireland, provided by Tourism Ireland to VisitBritain shows that the smoking ban introduced in April 2004 has not produced any general adverse effect on inbound tourism numbers. VisitBritain's overseas offices are providing information about the smoking bans in force in Scotland and Wales, and to be introduced in England, to potential visitors from the...

Written Answers — Culture Media and Sport: Smoking (26 Apr 2006)

David Lammy: I have discussed smoking in public places for the purposes of artistic productions with the Theatrical Management Association/Society for London Theatre. I have received no other representations from the film, broadcasting and theatre industries and I have not discussed this particular point with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health. However, my officials have been kept...

Public Bill Committee: Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill: Clause 41 - Standards set by Secretary of State (5 Jun 2003)

Mr David Lammy: The hon. Gentleman will understand that the demography of Wales and the history of the valleys, factors such as the high incidence of smoking and teenage cessation, and the Welsh industrial heritage, mean that Wales has its own characteristic demography and health economy. For those and other reasons the Welsh have chosen—as is their right—to pursue a course of action in the...

Written Answers — Health: Advertising Campaigns (8 Apr 2003)

Mr David Lammy: ... 0.06 0.05 0.10 0.21 RU Thinking/teenage pregnancy — 0.945 0.275 1.22 Sexual Health — 0.534 0.240 0.774 Social Worker Recruitment — 0.213 0.720 0.933 Smoking 7.524 0.050 0.935 8.509 TB Awareness — — 0.09 0.09 Winter — — 0.25 0.25

Written Answers — Health: Community Pharmacists (3 Apr 2003)

Mr David Lammy: ...which help people take care of their own health. They are increasingly involved in a range of additional services, including detailed advice to patients and to doctors on the use of medicines, smoking cessation schemes, and supervised consumption of methadone by drug misusers. The first repeat dispensing schemes, under which community pharmacists will supply repeat medication for up to a...

Written Answers — Health: Advertising Campaigns (25 Mar 2003)

Mr David Lammy: ...8212; — 0.39 1.5 1.6 2.0 Sexual health — — — — — 0.3 1.5 Social worker recruitment — — — — — 0.832 1.236 Smoking — — — 6.18(21) 8.97 7.79 7.873 TB awareness — — — — — 0.30 0.09 Travel safe 0.85 — — — —...

Written Answers — Health: Publicity and Advertising (11 Feb 2003)

Mr David Lammy: ...at disproportionate cost. Expenditure for publicity other than that associated with campaigns can also be provided only at disproportionate cost. Prior to 1999–2000 publicity and advertising on smoking was undertaken by the Health Education Authority (HEA). £54.53 million has been spent to date by the Department. There have been a number of new campaigns since 1999–2000....

Obesity in Children (22 Jan 2003)

Mr David Lammy: ...every person who either has diabetes or is at risk of developing the disease. Further plans include setting up local diabetes networks and giving appropriate advice on diet, physical activity and smoking. We are working with a range of national, regional and local partners on programmes to tackle obesity, improve diet and increase levels of physical activity. Government action on obesity...

Public Services (Isle of Wight) (14 Jan 2003)

Mr David Lammy: ...; #631,000 to implement the free nursing care policy; #400,000 to improve intermediate care; #100,000 to help reduce waiting lists; #100,000 for local capital modernisation funding; #38,000 for smoking cessation programmes; #29,000 for palliative care; #17,000 to help reform the emergency care that the hon. Member for Isle of Wight mentioned, and a further #10,000 for the booked admissions...

Smokeless Tobacco (7 Jan 2003)

Mr David Lammy: ...to tackling tobacco addiction. Tobacco has been with us for about 400 years and it remains with us for the simple reason that nicotine is addictive. There are many ways of taking nicotine, but smoking is by far the most efficient and the most dangerous. As the 1998 White Paper starkly put it, "Smoking kills". It is as simple as that. In any one year smoking is responsible for about 120,000...

Smokeless Tobacco (7 Jan 2003)

Mr David Lammy: My hon. Friend corrects me: the Swedish habit of using oral tobacco has existed for centuries, whereas we in this country have smoked tobacco. The banning of advertising and our investment in smoking cessation—Zyban is available on the NHS to help people to stop smoking—are relatively new. In fact, it is a two-and-a-half-year programme, but we are on the journey. My hon. Friend...

Written Answers — Health: Advertising Campaigns (4 Dec 2002)

Mr David Lammy: ...staff recruitment National/regional press and radio 5,062,400 NHS Direct Women's press, internet advertising 795,000 Organ donation Radio and six sheet posters, Asian TV and radio 245,000 Smoking cessation Satellite and terrestrial TV 7,270,000 Flu immunisation National TV, press, bus interiors, pharmacy bags and online 2,145,000 Sexual health Radio, men's/women's...

Housing (Haringey) (7 Feb 2002)

Mr David Lammy: ...smashed front door and the availability of discarded furniture and beds, some rough sleepers have moved into the downstairs cupboard. The common parts are used by local young people to sniff glue, smoke crack cocaine or inject heroin. Burglary is a problem and residents never know who is going to be around the corner. In all practical respects, the family are living in an unmanaged...

Prayers: Rural and Urban White Papers (26 Jan 2001)

Mr David Lammy: ...from school, and the Government have inherited a situation in which many of those children are now perceived as unemployable. Many of them are at home or roaming the streets during the day, and are smoking dope from the age of 12 or 13. That is what the Government inherited, and we have chosen to do something about it; the Conservatives did not. That is the context in which we must view...