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Business of the House (15 Oct 2009) has video

Angela Watkinson: ..., including the measurement of childhood obesity. Surely responsibility for childhood obesity lies with parents, as does responsibility for antisocial behaviour and under-age sex, drinking and smoking. May we have a debate on parental responsibility?

New Member: New Clause 1 — Purchase of tobacco on behalf of children (12 Oct 2009) has video

Angela Watkinson: The purpose of these bans might be to deter under-age smoking, but does my hon. Friend agree that the main responsibility for ensuring that children do not smoke lies with their parents? They should know where their children are, what they are doing and how much money they have to spend unsupervised.

Orders of the Day — Health Bill (29 Nov 2005)

Angela Watkinson: ...older people have a habit of decades, dating back to the days when the health risks were not known and tobacco advertising presented the habit as glamorous and sophisticated, and are often beyond smoking cessation programmes? Are they to be confined to their homes? Should not restaurateurs and publicans have a choice, so that if they wish to have smoking premises, those who wish to smoke...

Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mrs Angela Watkinson: ...patients, 80 per cent. of whom have a cannabis history. A fact that is well played down by FRANK . . . FRANK merely suggests that 'some people can get anxious and paranoid especially if they are smoking the stronger varieties'." By urging young people merely to take precautions and reduce the possible harm caused by cannabis use, I believe that we are missing an opportunity to warn them...

Orders of the Day — Drugs Bill (18 Jan 2005)

Mrs Angela Watkinson: I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way—he can rest his voice for a moment. The Home Office "Frank" website gives the following advice on cannabis: "Smoking a spliff makes most people happy, relaxed and at peace with the world but the effects vary from person to person. Some people have one puff and feel sick. Others get the giggles until the muscles in their face hurt . ....

School Discipline (13 Dec 2004)

Mrs Angela Watkinson: ...doing and the relationship that he had formed with the children, the whispering would start at the school gates. Someone would say, "That's the teacher who was accused of assault, and there's no smoke without fire." The head teacher would therefore have to ask him to leave, even though he was innocent of any offence. After several attempts at working as a supply teacher, my friend decided...

London (21 Apr 2004)

Mrs Angela Watkinson: ...asthma than England and Wales as a whole, despite having a lower proportion of individuals receiving treatment for asthma. Strategies to improve air quality through engine efficiency, to discourage smoking, to reduce alcohol and drug abuse, to combat obesity and to encourage immunisation take-up all contribute in general to improving public health and quality of life for Londoners, while...

Fire Services Bill (8 May 2003)

Mrs Angela Watkinson: ...the householder makes an alarm call and the arrival of the fire service. If it was, for example, 20 minutes, as the Deputy Prime Minister admitted in his opening remarks, anyone who was still in a smoke-filled bedroom would be dead. The Deputy Prime Minister's powers to close fire stations, impose pay settlements and change conditions are draconian and centralising, yet fall short of the...

Education Bill (4 Dec 2001)

Mrs Angela Watkinson: ...first I was told at the weekend by a teacher from outside my constituency, and it concerns a pupil who refused to conform in school or to obey any of the school rules. He would not wear uniform; he smoked; he swore at teachers; and he physically attacked, and stole from, pupils and staff. The police were involved and there was irrefutable evidence of his behaviour, yet the head teacher's...