Results 1–20 of 21 for smoking speaker:Nick Brown

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Smoking: Newcastle upon Tyne ( 9 Nov 2021)

Nick Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the level of smoking in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Written Answers — Health: Smoking ( 4 Jun 2007)

Nick Brown: ...of State for Health what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the guidance provided by local authority co-ordinators of regulatory services on implementation and enforcement of the smoke-free regulations.

Written Answers — Treasury: VAT: Bingo ( 2 May 2007)

Nick Brown: ...; (2) what assessment has he made of the impact on bingo clubs of (a) the imposition of VAT on participation fees, (b) the changes introduced in the 2007 Gaming Act and (c) the ban on smoking in public places.

Written Answers — Health: Asbestos-related Cancer Deaths ( 3 Jun 2003)

Nick Brown: .... A further 1500 to 3000 lung cancer deaths per year are estimated also to be attributable to asbestos, but these cannot be individually distinguished from lung cancers due to other causes such as smoking.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Smoking ( 3 Apr 2003)

Nick Brown: The Government are currently looking at possible options to reduce the exposure of people to tobacco smoke. We will announce our conclusions in due course about how best we will achieve further progress in this area.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Passive Smoking (20 Mar 2003)

Nick Brown: Research by the Department of Health's Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH) into the general effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is continuing. The results of a survey on smoking behaviour and attitudes, undertaken by the Office for National Statistics in 2002, are due to be published on behalf of the Department of Health this summer.

Written Answers — Health: Passive Smoking (20 Mar 2003)

Nick Brown: I have been asked to reply. Research by the Department of Health's Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH) into the general effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is continuing. The results of a survey on smoking behaviour and attitudes, undertaken by the Office for National Statistics in 2002, are due to be published on behalf of the Department of Health this summer.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Smoking (17 Mar 2003)

Nick Brown: ..., all employers have a duty under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees, and this duty includes any risks arising from passive smoking. More specifically, the Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 require employers to protect non-smokers from discomfort caused by tobacco smoke in rest rooms and rest areas....

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Smoking (14 Mar 2003)

Nick Brown: All employers have a duty under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees, and this duty includes any risks arising from passive smoking. More specifically, the Workplace (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 require employers to protect non-smokers from discomfort caused by tobacco smoke in rest rooms and rest areas. This...

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Smoking (14 Mar 2003)

Nick Brown: In all our businesses, smoking is banned within all public areas and also within open plan working areas. Arrangements are made locally on a site by site basis in consultation with staff the procedures for those who smoke. Smoking rooms are provided where space allows.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Smoking (14 Mar 2003)

Nick Brown: The Government are currently looking at possible options to reduce the exposure of people to tobacco smoke. We will announce our conclusions in due course about how best we will achieve further progress in this area.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Smoking (11 Mar 2003)

Nick Brown: ...no such plans. Employers have a duty under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 to protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees. This duty includes any risks arising from passive smoking. The Health and Safety Executive has published free guidance that gives advice to employers on introducing effective smoking policies in the workplace.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Tobacco Smoke (13 Feb 2003)

Nick Brown: The Department does not hold data on worker exposure to tobacco smoke in the way requested. In a 2001 survey on smoking behaviour and attitudes undertaken by the Office for National Statistics, 47 per cent. of the workers questioned said that there was a ban on smoking in their workplace. This survey also revealed that 38 per cent. of workers had smoking restricted to designated areas in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Beef on the Bone ( 4 Feb 1999)

Nick Brown: ...of beef products would be able to exercise that choice. Reintroduction of uncertainty is one of the points that the chief medical officer properly warns against. Whatever the arguments about smoking, the fact is that nvCJD is invariably fatal.

Orders of the Day — Finance Bill: Repeals (20 Apr 1994)

Nick Brown: ...their little jokes. Last year, the then Chancellor, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Thames (Mr. Lamont), made special mention of the tax increase on small cigars, the subtext being "as smoked by you know who". This year, "you know who" got his own back by increasing tax on cigarettes and cheap champagne. The Chancellor was less successful in justifying the impact of this year's...

Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill (26 Apr 1993)

Nick Brown: ...in the Budget speech in which the Chancellor made special mention, in a sinister way, of his regret at sticking four and a half pence on a packet of live of the small cigars that the Home Secretary smokes. Although the Chancellor's policy for economic growth cannot truly be called Conservative in the sense that the previous Prime Minister would have understood it. the right hon....

Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement (19 Nov 1992)

Nick Brown: ...times than the Jubilee line extension. As for the famous green shoots of economic recovery, there is only one possible remaining explanation. It is that the Chancellor has pulled them up and is smoking them. He sees the recovery. No one else sees the recovery. He believes that others see the recovery, too. He comes to the House of Commons and tells us about the recovery. Truly, the...

Orders of the Day — Autumn Statement (19 Nov 1992)

Nick Brown: ...the efficiency and effectiveness of how things are run in the Conservative party that that trick, which would doubtless have been popular in the country, has not come off. We have been treated to smoke screens, illusions, mists and reality obscured, yet behind all the stagecraft, deceits and deceptions, the Chancellor remains. As the hon. Member for South Dorset (Mr. Bruce) so astutely...

Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance: Imports (Tax Arrangements) (17 Oct 1991)

Nick Brown: ...Government intend to increase VAT again? Do they intend to extend the public sector borrowing requirement still further or to cut expenditure on the national health service to encourage people to smoke cheaper cigarettes? It surely requires a peculiar incompetence on the Government's part to lose £1 billion of revenue and to encourage cigarette smoking at the same time.

Public Accounts (30 Nov 1989)

Nick Brown: ...As the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Smith) said" factors such as heredity and age are unavoidable. None the less, the Committee draws attention to the three principal risk factors, which are smoking, blood pressure and cholesterol levels. These factors are all avoidable, and the Department must do more than admit that more needs to be done in heart disease prevention. The Committee...


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