Results 1-8 of 8 for smoking speaker:Richard Younger-Ross

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: European Affairs (11 Dec 2007)

Richard Younger-Ross: ...—and he is making some excellent points. Is part of the problem the fact that Ministers do not wish to come to this House for decisions to be made, because they wish to make decisions in smoke-filled rooms so that they can trade off a policy that they wish to see go through against other policies? Did not the former Minister for Europe go as far as saying on the record that they were...

Extraordinary Rendition (26 Jun 2007)

Richard Younger-Ross: ...at RAF Brize Norton."—[ Official Report, 21 May 2007; Vol. 460, c. 1052W.] We would all like to know what that aircraft was doing and why it landed 14 times. I accept that there is a lot of smoke, but we do not necessarily have the proof of a fire. Generally, however, where there is smoke there is fire. The CIA is not going to tell us that they are undertaking extraordinary...

Orders of the Day: A Citizens' Agenda (26 Oct 2006)

Richard Younger-Ross: ...on from his predecessor. We look forward to working with him over the coming years. On transparency, do we not sometimes get the feeling that Ministers would prefer to continue to negotiate in smoke-filled rooms, rather than in the open? Some of that negotiation in smoke-filled rooms led to some poor decisions in the past: for instance, Cyprus being permitted to join the Union before any...

Fire Safety (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Richard Younger-Ross: ...it would be a very interesting and exciting site. It could be developed and give some thought to the Minister. It is a website that kids log on to. It has wonderful things on it—Buzzy the Smoke Detector, Reddy the Fire Extinguisher, Squirt the Water Drop and others. It goes on for a number of pages. It is, in part, interactive. If we are to engage young children, we need to find...

Orders of the Day — Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]: New Clause 4 — Marriage between transgendered persons (25 May 2004)

Mr Richard Younger-Ross: ...located there. The Government have challenged much religious thinking in introducing the Bill, but they may have become somewhat doctrinal in their position on new clause 7. When we could smell the smoke earlier, I wondered whether the fires of hell were opening up to consume those who were in favour of the Bill. On reflection, that is not the case, because much of the Bill is very...

Fire and Rescue Services Bill: New Clause 5 — Regional Management Structures (15 Mar 2004)

Mr Richard Younger-Ross: ...to me why a single control room for a region the size of the south-west would be inappropriate. In one control room, a tape was played of a small boy who dialled 999 to say that he could smell smoke. His mother was asleep upstairs on the bed with the baby. The controller asked the child where he lived. He could give the house name and the street name, but not the name of the town. The...

Fire and Rescue Services Bill: New Clause 4 — Limitation on Power to Authorise Charging (15 Mar 2004)

Mr Richard Younger-Ross: I am not saying that, but as the right hon. Gentleman well knows, people who smoke too much sometimes find it difficult to get certain forms of treatment because doctors are reluctant to treat them. We are considering a specific case in which someone is at fault. I understood that when the Conservative party was in power, it accepted the established principle that ambulances have always been...

Public Bill Committee: Fire and Rescue Services Bill: Clause 19 - Charging (24 Feb 2004)

Mr Richard Younger-Ross: ...attend if an alarm went off—the brigade would respond to that as normal—but if it repeatedly transpired that it was turning up and there was nothing but an alarm going off, with no smoke or fire in sight, the authority should be allowed to charge. I am not saying that it should charge; simply that it should be free to do so.