Results 1-5 of 5 for smoking speaker:Charles Walker

Amendment of the Law (23 Apr 2009)

Charles Walker: ...even more fractious in my seat. I listened to the Budget yesterday in stunned silence. The figures were enormous. When I left here I went on a sort of comfort-eating crusade. Thank gosh I do not smoke or drink or I would have been a mess by midnight. No slice of carrot cake in the precincts of the House of Commons was safe, and when I had worked my way through the various tea rooms, I got...

Points of Order: Public Health (England) (22 Feb 2007)

Charles Walker: ...health promotion activities formerly carried out by Health Visitors since the move to a geographical basis rather than being practice allocated, naming specifically the loss of obesity clinics and smoking cessation activities." The current funding crisis within our PCT is causing a lot of concern to our general practitioners and to health visitors. The impact of those cuts is being felt by...

[Mr. Martin Caton in the Chair] — Boundaries, Voting and Representation (Scotland) (20 Jul 2006)

Charles Walker: ...about what they perceive as a democratic deficit between Scottish MPs, MSPs and, of course, their own representative and other English MPs. For example, let us take a well-worn cliché, the smoking debate. That was decided in Scotland by Scottish MSPs. Quite rightly, Parliament debated it in this part of the world, and Scottish MPs voted on a matter that related solely to England. I...

Point of Order: Whitsun Adjournment (25 May 2006)

Charles Walker: ...insignificance when compared with the 15p per head spent in Scotland, although that is not a huge sum of money either. I am afraid that those figures are not in the same ballpark as the money spent on smoking cessation programmes, important though those are. The Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust was founded in 2001 and has operated since without going into deficit; it has balanced its...

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

Charles Walker: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this important debate. My father died at 46 from throat cancer. I am an ex-smoker who smoked a lot. We both made our choices. I might therefore be expected to speak in favour of a total ban, but far from it. I have read the briefs from the learned gentlemen and organisations proposing a ban— the chief medical officer, the...