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

Kevin Brennan: ..., all the hon. Gentleman is doing is taking money that is owed to the bank, bringing it back in-house and giving it out again to students to pay for their higher education. In other words, it is a smoke-and-mirrors, totally disingenuous way of borrowing extra money, which the hon. Gentleman claims he and his party do not want to do. Earlier today, I heard the Leader of the Opposition say...

Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Fires: Children (20 Apr 2009)

Kevin Brennan: ...to your recent question asking how many children died in house fires in each year since 2001. (269307) The attached table provides the number of deaths of children aged under 16 years who died from smoke, fire or flames in the home, in England and Wales, from 2001 to 2007 (the latest year available). Number of deaths of children( 1) with an underlying cause of smoke, fire or flames in...

Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Death (20 Mar 2009)

Kevin Brennan: .... I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Karen Dunnell: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent questions asking: 1) How many death certificates included (a) smoking, (b) knife, (c) overweight, (d) anorexia, (e) bulimia and (f) influenza in the cause of death section in each of the last five years. (264116) 2) How many death certificates...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Health Education (10 Sep 2008)

Kevin Brennan: ...of services to be offered to all families with young children and includes a range of health promotion topics to be raised with families such as safety in the home, nutrition, physical activity and smoking. Another strong contribution to "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives" is being made by the National PE and Sport Strategy for Young People. Already, 86 per cent. of school pupils are engaged...

Written Answers — Home Department: Alcoholic Drinks: Children (12 Jun 2008)

Kevin Brennan: I have been asked to reply. There is no agreed definition of binge drinking for young people. The smoking, drinking and drug use survey of secondary school children in England provides national estimates of the proportions of young people aged 11 to 15 who smoke, drink alcohol or take illegal drugs. We have used those data between 2001 and 2006 to summarise the units of alcohol consumed by...

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Smoking (19 May 2008)

Kevin Brennan: The Department for Children, Schools and Families does not currently have or previously had any smoking shelters at its London headquarters buildings.

Written Answers — Health: Alcoholic Drinks: Young People (8 Oct 2007)

Kevin Brennan: I have been asked to reply. Available evidence suggests ("Schools Survey on Drinking, Smoking and Drug Use among young people") that the percentage of young people who drink alcohol is falling (from 27 per cent. in 1996 to 21 per cent. in 2006). Because there is no definition of binge drinking for under-18s, the Government do not make an estimate of how many under-16s regularly binge drink....

Finance Bill: [Sir Alan Haselhurst in the Chair] — Clause 1 — Rates of Tobacco Products Duty (13 May 2003)

Mr Kevin Brennan: ...going. However, is it logical to include rolling tobacco, but not to include cigarettes? After all, rolling tobacco is one of the commonest ways through which young people on low incomes get into smoking.

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (30 Apr 2002)

Mr Kevin Brennan: ..., suggesting that there will be a fall in demand in equal proportion to the price rise. That will promote better health, as the Budget should, and as it is intended to do in the long term by targeting smoking, while raising revenue. Yes, the tax on alcopops has been raised to remove the anomaly of treating them like wine, but the tax on beer produced by small breweries has been cut, and...