Results 1-5 of 5 for smoking speaker:Eric Joyce
- Public Bill Committee: Health Bill: Clause 3 - Exemptions (6 Dec 2005)
Eric Joyce: ...—is that if we did not have the necessary degree of consent by then, the legislation would be equally unworkable at that point. I agree that at some stage in the future we want no one to be smoking in public places—no one to be smoking anywhere, frankly. However, the amendments would introduce a degree of inflexibility which would make the legislation essentially unworkable. My...
- Public Bill Committee: Health Bill: Clause 3 - Exemptions (6 Dec 2005)
Eric Joyce: ...Scotland. I see no difficulty in there being two different legislative bases for action. However, the objective is the same in Scotland and in the rest of the UK. Most people want to see the end of smoking in due course, but the key issue is whether there is workable legislation. I listened to the speech made by the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire and I accept the general principle...
- Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)
Eric Joyce: My hon. Friend mentioned in passing the question of displacement, but she did not give it sufficient attention. If we are to measure the effect on health of a complete ban on smoking, we must also take into account the effect that such a ban would have on displacing smoking into the home. Some people will be discouraged from going to pubs and clubs and will therefore smoke and drink more at...
- Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)
Eric Joyce: If someone wanted to work in a pub that allowed smoking, would my hon. Friend use exactly the same argument and therefore argue for allowing smoking in pubs?
- Defence in the World (22 Jan 2003)
Mr Eric Joyce: ..., but whether it is or not, this is not a game of hide and seek. That brings me back to the argument that I was parodying at the beginning of my speech. If the inspectors find something—the smoking gun, as it were—that may be viewed as evidence for their continuing to inspect, rather than evidence that Saddam Hussein is concealing a great deal and that we should take action in...