Results 1-4 of 4 for smoking speaker:David Gauke

Public Bill Committee: Child Poverty Bill (20 Oct 2009)

David Gauke: ...attainment and erratic school attendance, school leavers not in education, employment or training, living in substandard housing or temporary accommodation, infant mortality rates, teenage smoking and obesity. Those are all similar to what we were talking about when we discussed causation, and to the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Bedfordshire. Why did the DWP stop...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 20 (15 May 2008)

David Gauke: ...in person. The bingo industry is struggling, for a number of reasons, but particularly because of the Gambling Act 2005, which I accept is going to be reviewed, and various changes such as the smoking ban and so on. Times are difficult for bingo halls, which play an important role in many communities. They have been very popular. I am sure that we would all agree that it would be a great...

Public Bill Committee: Finance Bill: (Except clauses 1, 3, 7, 8, 12, 20, 21, 25, 67 and 81 to 84, schedules 1, 18, 22 and 23, and new clauses relating to microgeneration) - Clause 6 (10 May 2007)

David Gauke: ...policy. I am not saying that it does. I should be grateful if the Financial Secretary could confirm that smuggling has caused us to have a rate of duty that appears to encourage more and more people to smoke hand-rolled tobacco. It is one area in which the Government’s anti-smoking policy appears to be failing.

[Derek Conway in the Chair] — Buncefield Oil Depot Fire (19 Jul 2006)

David Gauke: ...woken in my home a few miles from Buncefield. It is certainly an experience that I shall not forget. Nor will I forget the experience of driving past Buncefield on the A41 and seeing the plumes of smoke, or visiting the site with my hon. Friend the Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning). He mentioned the subject on which I should like to focus—perfluorooctane sulphonate, or PFOS,...