Results 1-13 of 13 for smoking speaker:Alistair Burt

Christmas Adjournment (21 Dec 2004)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...a key area of Government policy. It details a mixture of incompetence and deliberate calculation from No. 10 Downing street through the Home Office and its agencies, which led ultimately to a smoking ruin in north Bedfordshire. That contrasts completely with the rather self-serving written ministerial statement that put no blame on the Government. I am also raising the matter because...

Parents (Family Policy) (7 Dec 2004)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...classes. Children of separated families are twice as likely to have behavioural problems, perform less well in school, become sexually active at a younger age, suffer depression and turn to drugs, smoking and heavy drinking. In May 2004, Cambridge university reported that teachers were losing the battle to maintain discipline in schools because of the breakdown in family relationships.

Education and Skills Training (19 Mar 2002)

Mr Alistair Burt: .... Member for Newbury (Mr. Rendel). We found out that, should he become Secretary of State for Education and Skills, he will be considerably more relaxed than the present Secretary of State. He was smoked out by my hon. Friend the Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin), because the hon. Gentleman said that the smoking of cannabis would make teaching easier. I have no doubt that he...

Education and Skills Training (19 Mar 2002)

Mr Alistair Burt: The hon. Gentleman may prefer to consult Hansard, and then have another crack at it. I suggested that it was put to him that the smoking of cannabis would make teaching easier, with which he agreed. We will draw a happy veil over the rest of the hon. Gentleman's speech, other than to pick out his admission that the Liberal Democrats in Scotland have not abolished tuition fees in higher...

Social Security (19 Feb 1997)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...to the progress that has been made. I thought that important progress was made when the hon. Lady was dealing with Labour's plans for early retirement. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State smoked out some time ago the fact that if, under Labour's proposals, someone were to retire at the earliest possible age at no extra cost to the taxpayer, they would luxuriate in a pension for...

New Clause 3: Report to Parliament: Medical Test (8 Mar 1994)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...issues in relation to new clause 3. The debate was started with the usual comments about the Government's mean-mindedness. I should like to put in hon. Members' pipes three facts for them to smoke later—if such a metaphor is not politically incorrect these days. The Government's record on benefits for disabled people is extraordinarily good. Spending has increased by 225 per cent....

Prayers: Debate on the Address (31 Oct 1991)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...the time. The manifesto commitment in 1983 to pull out, the views of the Leader of the Opposition and the 13 shadow Cabinet members who voted against the Single European Act in 1986 were all just a smoke screen. Of course, the Labour party's commitment to personal choice and opportunity is a matter of long-term and deeply held belief. Therefore, Labour Members' votes against the sale of...

Health Service and Community Care (17 Apr 1991)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...his excellent annual survey. He wrote: lung cancer and coronary heart disease…are the consequence of an unhealthy lifestyle and many potential years of life are lost because of socially acceptable lifestyles committed to cigarette smoking, an over-indulgence of alcohol, promiscuity, etc. The effects of such lifestyles even threaten and prejudice during pregnancy the chances of a...

Installation of Smoke Detectors Bill (28 Feb 1989)

Mr Alistair Burt: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the installation of smoke detectors in domestic premises. If 1989 is a year like any other, by 31 December about 650 people will have died from accidental fires in dwellings and more than 8,000 will have been injured. Colleagues who have attended the scenes of fatal fires will have seen the gutted house, the upset firemen and...

Furniture (Fire Resistance) (29 Jun 1988)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...it. I also pay tribute to the work of Chief Assistant Fire Officer Bob Graham, who has been instrumental in terms of some of the changes that are coming through. May I commend the further use of smoke detectors and suggest that the Minister takes my ten-minute Bill as a model for further progress? Smoke detectors save lives now, whereas Secondly, I should like to raise a matter that has...

Smoke Detectors in Houses (9 Feb 1988)

Mr Alistair Burt: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the installation of smoke detectors in all domestic properties by a date to be determined. This is a simple Bill, but its effects are sweeping. It is designed to require smoke detectors to be placed in all domestic properties over a period, with the aim of saving upwards of 300 lives per year. On Christmas day 1984, the...

Upholstered Furniture (Fire Resistance) (11 Jan 1988)

Mr Alistair Burt: ..., whose work on this issue has been significant in pressing forward with changes in the legislation. That work deserves special tribute. I ask my hon. Friend to take most seriously the matter of smoke detectors and to consider the request made by chief officers. In particular, will my hon. Friend consider a scheme whereby the introduction of those detectors might be related to the sale of...

Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment (12 Nov 1985)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...first came to Bury as a general practitioner just after the war he could tell when it was Bury holiday week because it was the first time in the year that he could see the town. At other times, smoke from all the chimneys would cover the town. Now, the clean air legislation and fewer chimneys have ensured the Bury's beauties can be seen all the time. The people of Bury have recognised,...