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Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: (Except clauses 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 20 and 92) - Clause 112 (25 Jun 2009)

Mark Field: ...industry at large, and give a perspective on the number of bingo halls have closed in the past three to five years? As the hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport has pointed out, the Government’s smoking ban has been a major factor in some of the closures, and the measure we are discussing will be a second hammer blow. I do not suggest that my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith and...

Policing (City of London) (24 Jun 2008)

Mark Field: ...of environmental services is also considering the deployment of new inspectors to cover the streets during evenings and early mornings. Their role would be to enforce rules on licensing, noise, smoking and parking. But—I fear that there is always a "but" on these matters—the City police's rough calculation of the relatively new costs that the force is incurring as a result of...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 9 (13 May 2008)

Mark Field: ...are spending far less time in pubs. Perhaps they look towards gastro-pubs or bars where they can take their family, or they want to spend more time at home, around the television and the like. The smoking ban has also had its part to play—one of the great unintended consequences of the smoking ban is the disruption for people living in the vicinity of pubs and bars, particularly in...

Orders of the Day — London Olympics Bill: New Clause 1 — Limit on Power of Greater London Authority to Raise Money from Council Tax for Expenditure on London Olympics (6 Dec 2005)

Mark Field: I thank my hon. Friend. I hope that he is not smoking those fags either in this place or anywhere else; perhaps he is still entitled to do so. That is the nub of the problem. In essence, in London, the risk is that we will find ourselves with an enormous burden for many years to come. Already concerns have been expressed by hon. Friends and, I think, Labour Members about the costs that are...

Fireworks Bill: Clause 2 — Power to make Regulations about Fireworks (13 Jun 2003)

Mr Mark Field: ...about the ever more intrusive role of government—and I do not make a narrow point about the current Administration as opposed to previous ones. For example, the proposed restrictions on smoking are based on purely social grounds, rather than necessarily those of harm. I am reminded that the last non-Conservative to represent my parliamentary seat was none other than John Stuart Mill,...