Results 1-20 of 20 for smoking speaker:Liam Byrne

Written Answers — Home Department: Smoking (20 May 2008)

Liam Byrne: My Department has no central records of building any smoking shelters at our London buildings in the last five years.

Written Ministerial Statements — Home Department: Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre (15 Mar 2007)

Liam Byrne: ...to abscond from the centre. No serious injuries occurred to staff or detainees within the centre, but seven members of staff and two detainees were taken to hospital suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation. All were subsequently discharged. Robert Whalley CB, a retired senior civil servant, will extend his investigation into the recent disturbance at Harmondsworth Removal Centre to...

Written Answers — Home Department: Smoking Ban (30 Jan 2007)

Liam Byrne: The cost to the Home Department in 2005-06 of enforcing a smoking ban has been estimated to be approximately £200 for the Home Office Headquarters Estate; the total cost in 2005-06 of providing support to staff wishing to give up smoking was £97.85. These costs do not include the Prison Service as this information can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Written Answers — Home Department: Under-age Drinking (17 May 2006)

Liam Byrne: ...taken place, up to AMEC 3 which ran during November and December last year. This shows encouraging reductions in test-purchase failures for all sectors of the industry. Data from the "Drug use, smoking and drinking among young people in England in 2005" survey shows that the number of children aged 11-15 who reported having drunk alcohol in the last week was 22 per cent. in 2005, down from...

Written Answers — Health: Departmental Websites (2 May 2006)

Liam Byrne: ...site (www.thecalmzone.net) 31. Think About Drink campaign site (www.wrecked.co.uk) 32. NHS Modernisation Agency (www.wise.nhs.uk) 33. UK National Screening Committee (www.nsc.nhs.uk) 34. Giving Up Smoking (www.givingupsmoking.co.uk) 35. Health and Social Care Awards (www.healthandsocialcareawards.org) 36. NHS Editorial Library (www.editorial-library.nhs.uk) 37. Face It: Hepatitis C...

Written Answers — Health: School Nurses (26 Apr 2006)

Liam Byrne: ...Every Child Matters", the national service framework for children, young people and maternity and healthy schools. It also contains additional information on today's health priorities, such as obesity, smoking and mental health. There has been no distribution of this pack. Copies are available from the Department's website at: www.dh.gov.uk A copy is available in the Library.

Written Answers — Health: Childhood Mortality (Lancashire) (18 Apr 2006)

Liam Byrne: ...year of 1998 (the average of 1997–99) to the target year of 2010. The Department has a number of initiatives aimed at tackling this gap in infant mortality. These include reducing maternal smoking as it is a risk factor for infant mortality, improving breastfeeding rates through a range of initiatives aimed at new and disadvantaged mothers, and improving neonatal services...

Written Answers — Health: Telephone Numbers (27 Mar 2006)

Liam Byrne: ...Minicom 08009178765 Health Literature Line 0800555777 Hepatitis C Line 08000850859 (Hepatitis C Line 0800451451 Know the Score (Scottish drugs helpline) 08005875879 Pregnancy Smoking Helpline 08001699169 Sexual Health Line 0800567123 Sexwise 0800282930 Smoking Helpline 08001690169 Smoking Helpline Minicom 08001690171 NHS learning and development...

Written Answers — Health: Advertising and Marketing Campaigns (20 Mar 2006)

Liam Byrne: ...; 0.30 — — Sexwise/teenage pregnancy — 2.00 1.6 2.08 — Sexual Health — 0.3 1.5 1.5 1.26 Social care recruitment — 0.83 1.24 4.62 2.14 Smoking 8.97 7.79 7.87 17.76 24.00 Tuberculosis awareness — 0.30 0.09 — — Walk-in centres 0.37 0.02 — — 0.20 Winter (Get the right...

Written Answers — Health: Easington Primary Care Trust (13 Feb 2006)

Liam Byrne: Annual data for the monitoring of the national health service stop smoking services, for the periods April 2002 to March 2003, April 2003 to March 2004 and April 2004 to March 2005, is shown in table 1. Provisional results from the quarterly report that monitors the NHS stop smoking services (for the period April 2005 to June 2005—quarter 1 is shown in table 2. Table 1: People(57)...

Easington Primary Care Trust (25 Jan 2006)

Liam Byrne: ...: the two urgent care centres in the district; the young people's centre, which provides a new focus on the treatment of substance misuse and sexual health; and the PCT-run, second most successful quit-smoking programme in England. In the PCT's business plan for the next three years, there are new ambitions, including the improvement of life chances for children, new access to high-quality...

Written Answers — Health: School Nurses (22 Nov 2005)

Liam Byrne: ...secondary school. The Department understands that school nurses have an important and central role to play in tackling health issues among children and younger people, such as obesity, exercise, smoking prevention and cessation and sexual and emotional health. The Chief Nursing Officer is leading the development and promotion of a new modern role for school nurses, and many school nurses...

Primary Care and Ambulance Trusts (2 Nov 2005)

Liam Byrne: ...the different needs that people have. The needs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are different from the needs of people who have had a stroke. In the case of prevention, the strategies involved in smoking cessation are different from the strategies needed to reduce levels of teenage pregnancy where they are too high. We need variability in different models. However,...

Written Answers — Health: School Nurses (1 Nov 2005)

Liam Byrne: ...secondary school. The Department understands that school nurses have an important and central role to play in tackling health issues among children and younger people, such as obesity, exercise, smoking prevention and cessation and sexual and emotional health. The Chief Nursing Officer is leading the development and promotion of a new modern role for school nurses and many school nurses...

Written Answers — Health: Hypertension (20 Oct 2005)

Liam Byrne: ...to recording diagnosis and ongoing management of high blood pressure. The Department's public health campaigns make a significant contribution to preventing hypertension. These include campaigns on smoking and healthy eating, and the Food Standards Agency's campaign on reducing salt consumption. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the Newcastle guideline...

Written Answers — Health: Peripheral Vascular Disease (20 Oct 2005)

Liam Byrne: ...achievement of the Governments targets in these areas. The Department's public health campaigns make a significant contribution to preventing peripheral vascular disease. These include campaigns on smoking and healthy eating, and the Food Standards Agency campaign on reducing salt consumption.

Written Answers — Health: Stroke (20 Oct 2005)

Liam Byrne: ...163;20 million over five years in a new United Kingdom stroke research network. The Department's public health campaigns make a significant contribution to preventing strokes. These include campaigns on smoking and healthy eating, and the Food Standards Agency campaign on reducing salt consumption.

Private Sector (NHS) (19 Oct 2005)

Liam Byrne: ...Warner, in response to another line of inquiry. After such a long and tantalising build-up, it is satisfying to have the full consummation of an hour and a half's debate. If my wife allowed me to smoke, I would ask my hon. Friend to share a cigarette if not a cigar with me when we are finished. The truth is that this debate and the matter raised by my hon. Friend are important not only...

Written Answers — Health: Lung Disease (7 Jul 2005)

Liam Byrne: ...conditions are all very closely related and represent one of the most important conditions in the United Kingdom and one of the commonest reasons for admission to hospital. The principle cause is smoking. The national service framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease already has a reduction in cigarette smoking as one of its major targets. We have also banned tobacco advertising and made...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking (5 Jul 2005)

Liam Byrne: The estimated percentages of deaths attributable to smoking in primary care trusts (PCTs) in Liverpool is shown in the table. Estimated percentage of deaths attributable to smoking in Liverpool PCTs Smoking deaths as a percentage of all deaths PCT Males Females All persons Central Liverpool 22 11 16 North Liverpool 21 11 16 South Liverpool 24 14 19 England 22...