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Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Mental Health (21 Jul 2009)

Kevan Jones: ...Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMHs) provide treatment for addictive behaviours, with referral to in-patient facilities if this is necessary, where individuals are retained in service. Smoking cessation services are provided within primary care. It is frequently the case that such treatment is provided in conjunction with chain of command-led workplace support. Personnel with an...

Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Insurance (5 Nov 2008)

Kevan Jones: .... PAX premiums are the same for all personnel regardless of risks and the scheme has a membership of roughly one-third of the armed forces. The premiums of SLI vary according to gender, age and smoking history and are competitive because of a unique partnering agreement between MOD and the insurers.

Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]: Members' Allowances (16 Jul 2008) has video

Kevan Jones: ...party has any moral authority to lecture people about probity in public life. What the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) is trying to do is quite clear: he is trying to throw enough smoke in the air to capture the mood of public dislike for politicians because he thinks that that will get him some party political advantage. However, I remind the House that the real rotten problem...

Prayers: Voting Age (Reduction) Bill (6 Jun 2008) has video

Kevan Jones: ...that way, unfortunately. The hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson) has just mentioned the age of 16 as though it were somehow a great watershed. If someone wants to kill themselves by smoking themselves to death, what is the difference between doing that at 16 and doing it at 18?

Tackling Health Inequalities (16 Feb 2006)

Kevan Jones: In the days when I dealt with the tobacco industry, the great city of Bristol was a major producer of cigarettes. Might there not be a connection between the high incidence of smoking in the city and the manufacture of cigarettes there? Will the hon. Gentleman be calling for the closing down of the tobacco industry in Bristol?

Mineworkers' Compensation (16 Oct 2003)

Mr Kevan Jones: With great respect, that is nonsense. I used to deal daily with compensation claims in the shipyards, where a certain percentage of the claim was taken off for smokers to take account of damage not caused by dust. The Department's approach seems to make the generalisation that many people are suffering due to exposure to other things, such as tobacco smoke. In many cases—for example,...

The Euro (15 Jan 2003)

Mr Kevan Jones: ...goods in the UK, and that is where the problem lies, because the region is not part of the eurozone. Last year, the north-east lost just under 5,000 jobs in manufacturing, not because the smoke-stack industries were inefficient but because of the strong value of the pound and because it is outside the eurozone. Some people might ask why that should matter, as service sector jobs will fill...

Christopher Rochester (18 Oct 2001)

Mr Kevan Jones: ...his thirst. His brother responded to his pleading by running backwards and forwards, his hands cupped full of water from a tap at the end of the room, while two members of staff stood by, casually smoking. The x-rays were taken and a possible fracture to the coccyx was diagnosed. Christopher was admitted to an orthopaedic ward, still in severe pain, with a continuing deep thirst, and, by...