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Youth Crime — [Miss Anne Begg in the Chair] (10 Jun 2009)

Paul Holmes: ...fingers and solve the problems, and neither can schools or the police. Society must change its attitude, although Government can give nudges in the right direction. As the hon. Gentleman has said, smoking was prevalent, but the number of smokers is now down to 30 per cent. of the population. That is partly because of health education campaigns, cracking down on the sale of tobacco to...

Theft from Shops (Use of Penalty Notices for Disorder): Criminal Law (11 Mar 2009) has video

Paul Holmes: ...or may not have started with cannabis, drank alcohol before proceeding to harder drugs. People keep repeating a nonsensical theory of cause and effect. Of course cannabis is dangerous. Of course smoking cigarettes is dangerous, although at least it does not cause violent or antisocial behaviour. Of course alcohol is dangerous. I have often been out on patrol with the police. If one asks...

Theft from Shops (Use of Penalty Notices for Disorder): Criminal Law (11 Mar 2009) has video

Paul Holmes: ...was quoted earlier, said: "It's a decision that has been taken for political reasons, to trump the Tories' law and order agenda, rather than for any scientific reason. Nobody is going to be put off smoking cannabis by the decision to reclassify it...cannabis can be dangerous to a few"— I have accepted that it can be— "yet two million people regularly smoke it—we should...

Public Bill Committee: : New Clause 33 (26 Feb 2009)

Paul Holmes: The Minister shakes his head. The Government may say, let us throw out the widest net in the democratic world and get as many people as possible, thanks to guilt by association, as there is no smoke without fire: somebody may have been named as a possible suspect, so we will keep their record. As for the 25 per cent. of people on the database who are innocent—that is 1 million people and...

Public Bill Committee: : New Clause 33 (26 Feb 2009)

Paul Holmes: ...heard it argued that people arrested in the vicinity of an incident, even though they are never charged or convicted, are likely to be the sort who would be criminals. The argument is that there is no smoke without fire, that they would not be there unless they were prone to that sort of behaviour. It is an appalling step for the state to imply that it is going back to a presumption of...

Early Years Education (18 Oct 2001)

Mr Paul Holmes: ...of the partnerships and the authorities. The most glaring abdication of responsibility in the Government's response to the Select Committee report has been touched on only once today. I refer to smoking and smacking. The Committee was clear in its view. It stated: "We recommend that no childminder should be allowed to smack any child in their care". Again, the Committee said: "We recommend...