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Health Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 29 November 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Patricia Hewitt. The answering member was Lord Lansley.
Health Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report and Third reading agreed to on question (formal). Money resolution agreed to on question (formal).
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
440 c144-238 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department of Health
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Health Bill. Explanatory Notes Bill 69-EN also published
Thursday, 27 October 2005
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Smoking in public places. Minutes of evidence 20 October 2005. (Printed in HC 485)
Thursday, 20 October 2005
Parliamentary committees
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Smoking in public places. Minutes of evidence 17 November 2005. (Printed in HC 485)
Thursday, 17 November 2005
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 440 c172 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that Mr. Speaker has placed a 10-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches, whic...
Chris Bryant | 440 c162 (Link to this contribution) As far as I can understand the hon. Gentleman’s argument, he is saying that, if the Conservative par...

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Lord Lansley | 440 c162 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there is one in Cambridge, which Greene King owns. There is also a large Wetherspoon pub. Unfor...
Laurence Robertson | 440 c163 (Link to this contribution) Did my hon. Friend discuss secondary smoking with the previous Health Secretary, who said that if sm...
Lord Lansley | 440 c162-3 (Link to this contribution) No. I shall carry on because I want to get the evidence on the record. Curiously, the Secretary of S...
Greg Hands | 440 c163 (Link to this contribution) I want to return to my hon. Friend’s earlier point about children. Tomorrow, in the House, I shall l...
Lord Lansley | 440 c163 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. The essence of our proposals would have made ...
Eric Forth | 440 c164 (Link to this contribution) In exactly that context, does my hon. Friend know whether there will be a total ban on smoking in pr...
Lord Lansley | 440 c164 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to confess to my right hon. Friend that I do not know, and perhaps the House does not yet...
Adam Afriyie | 440 c165 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the Science and Technology Committee, I am much interested in the evidence and in wha...
Lord Lansley | 440 c165 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend’s point and we might not have explored fully all the engineering solutio...
Lord Lansley | 440 c165 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend’s point, which is important, and it is one of the reasons why exemptions...
Lord Lansley | 440 c166-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not know of any specific allocation by the Government. I only know that, in South Cambridgeshir...
Jacqui Lait | 440 c165-6 (Link to this contribution) My point is supplementary to what my hon. Friend said about mental health institutions. As he sugges...
Lord Lansley | 440 c165 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady, and she got the chance to make the point that she would have made to...
Lynne Jones | 440 c165 (Link to this contribution) On prisons, care homes and other places where people might reside involuntarily, the Bill provides f...
Lord Lansley | 440 c167 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am not disputing that. There is a balance to be struck between continuing to give smokers the...
Steve Webb | 440 c167 (Link to this contribution) : I follow the hon. Gentleman’s logic about health inequalities being exacerbated by the Government’...
Lord Lansley | 440 c167 (Link to this contribution) Actually, I am with the hon. Gentleman. I said that we had three objectives, the first of which was ...
Lord Lansley | 440 c168 (Link to this contribution) This is the last time that I will give way on the subject of smoking.
Andrew Mackinlay | 440 c167 (Link to this contribution) : I would like to clear up some confusion in my understanding of the positions of those on both Fron...
Lord Lansley | 440 c170-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should ask the Department of Health and the Secretary of State about that. The De...
Philip Hollobone | 440 c169-70 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising the issue of hospital-acquired infections. Does he agree...
Lord Lansley | 440 c168-9 (Link to this contribution) I thought that I did go on to say that most people said that, although some who opposed the Governme...
Jim Devine | 440 c170 (Link to this contribution) : In Scotland, over a 15-year period when the Conservatives were in power, compulsory competitive te...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c151 (Link to this contribution) I will take further interventions in a moment, but I want to make a little progress because there is...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c151 (Link to this contribution) I take that as a statement that the hon. Gentleman and, no doubt, many of his hon. Friends will vote...
Lord McLoughlin | 440 c151 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the Secretary of State managed to hear Mr. Tony Benn—a former Member of Parlia...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c151 (Link to this contribution) I have just said that I will make a little more progress before I take further interventions. I hav...
Helen Jones | 440 c152 (Link to this contribution) : I accept that the Bill is a great step forward. I feel a bit like a bag of ailments this afternoon...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c152 (Link to this contribution) There will not be 24-hour drinking as a result of very sensible changes in the licensing laws, which...
Philip Davies | 440 c151 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c150-1 (Link to this contribution) My hand is always on my heart. We had a debate in the Government on how best to implement our manife...
Philip Davies | 440 c151 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for giving way, but I would prefer to put points to her. I do not smo...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c151 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, and I hope that he will tell us whether he proposes to vote f...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c153-4 (Link to this contribution) I am confident that those clubs, which many of us have in our constituencies, will be covered by our...
Natascha Engel | 440 c153 (Link to this contribution) On the exemptions, my constituency, like many other former mining constituencies, has a large and li...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c153 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. I have made various changes in response to the consultati...
Chris Bryant | 440 c153 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for moving forward with the Bill, not least because in the R...
David Leslie Taylor | 440 c152 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know that I admire what she tried to do at earlier stages of the Bill’s li...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c152 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. We will shortly be consulting on strengthening the general...
Ann Keen | 440 c152 (Link to this contribution) The Government are putting forward a strong public health message. Will the Secretary of State exami...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c152 (Link to this contribution) I will return to that very point in a moment. It is precisely the damaging effects of second-hand sm...
Betty Williams | 440 c155 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State clearly acknowledges the position of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, bu...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c155 (Link to this contribution) Inherent to devolution and the constitutional settlement is the fact that different decisions will b...
Eric Forth | 440 c155 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Secretary of State, no doubt inadvertently, implied tha...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c155 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend is well aware, health is a devolved matter, so there are different approaches to N...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c154 (Link to this contribution) Macmillan Cancer Relief does excellent work. It is precisely because of the damage that smoking and ...
Iris Robinson | 440 c154 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that according to Macmillan Cancer Relief, which is to be applauded ...
Louise Ellman | 440 c154-5 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, my hon. Frie...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c154 (Link to this contribution) I intend to make a little more progress before I give way. On exemptions, clause 2 gives the Nation...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c154 (Link to this contribution) Some 95 per cent. of deaths that are related to second-hand smoking occur as a result of smoking in ...
Paul Burstow | 440 c154 (Link to this contribution) : Will the Secretary of State explain how she came to the balance that she has struck and, in partic...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c155-6 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Indeed, I said that the Northern Ireland Assembly was suspen...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c156 (Link to this contribution) May I make this point before accepting further interventions? Those clubs are non-profit-making orga...
Speaker | 440 c155 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman must not draw me into the argument. I am sure that there are right hon. and...
Joan Walley | 440 c156 (Link to this contribution) In respect of the consultation that my right hon. Friend carried out, what account has she taken of ...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c156-7 (Link to this contribution) The issue of health inequalities and reducing health inequalities is central to our purpose as a Gov...
Lord Lansley | 440 c156 (Link to this contribution) : I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. Given that we are debating a public health...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c156 (Link to this contribution) I regret that the hon. Gentleman did not tell us whether he supports the measure or not. It would ap...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c157 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c157 (Link to this contribution) I hear my hon. Friend from a sedentary position. He anticipates the point that I was about to make. ...
Speaker | 440 c157 (Link to this contribution) Order. It would be helpful if the right hon. Lady could make it absolutely clear to whom she is givi...
Stephen Hesford | 440 c157 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
Speaker | 440 c157 (Link to this contribution) Order. Would the hon. Gentleman wait a second? My second guess was that the Secretary of State was g...
Stephen Hesford | 440 c157 (Link to this contribution) I am obliged, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Should it not be an ASH of interventions, rather than a FOREST?
Speaker | 440 c157 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the House appreciated that. I call Mr. Pat McFadden.
Pat McFadden | 440 c157 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Will my right hon. Friend clarify what she said a short time ago abou...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c157-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising an extremely important point. As I have said, the Bill p...
Bob Laxton | 440 c158 (Link to this contribution) What consideration has been given to making an exemption for what I term ““inherently dangerous work...
Speaker | 440 c159 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have to say to the hon. Lady, as I said to the hon. Member for Tewkesbury (Mr. Robertson), ...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c159 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I did indeed say that we would legislate for prisons ...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c159 (Link to this contribution) I want to bring my remarks to a conclusion because I am keen that as many hon. Members as possible s...
Lynne Jones | 440 c159 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Some time ago, before she took a large number of interventi...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c158-9 (Link to this contribution) I am drawing my remarks to a close. It is important to remember that the Government cannot force pe...
Lynne Jones | 440 c159 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Laurence Robertson | 440 c158 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Secretary of State keeps referring to the fact that lic...
Speaker | 440 c158 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has been here long enough to know that that is not a point of order for th...
Lynne Jones | 440 c159 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c158 (Link to this contribution) As far as I know, that particular point has not been put to us—we have considered the specific issue...
Bob Spink | 440 c161 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes some excellent points. On self-regulation and choice, does he agree that, for t...
Lord Lansley | 440 c161 (Link to this contribution) I accept my hon. Friend’s contention that we need clarity. That applies to many provisions. The deta...
Chris Bryant | 440 c161 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Lansley | 440 c161 (Link to this contribution) No, I want to answer the point of my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) about priva...
Ian Gibson | 440 c160 (Link to this contribution) Why does the hon. Gentleman believe that it has taken more than 50 years since the epic work of Sir ...
Lord Lansley | 440 c160 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman will have the opportunity to speak later when he can explain what he ...
Pat McFadden | 440 c160 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned the proposals that a public health Bill would have contained if the Con...
Lord Lansley | 440 c159-60 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the House is grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way so frequently, althoug...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c159 (Link to this contribution) I really want to bring my speech to an end. The Bill is a landmark in the protection of people’s he...
Caroline Flint | 440 c234-7 (Link to this contribution) We have had a very interesting debate, which very much reflects discussions not only in Cabinet, but...
Stephen Hesford | 440 c229-30 (Link to this contribution) I will be in brief. In the time available, I would like to make one or two points. Some hon. Members...
Andrew Murrison | 440 c230-4 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State for Health said that this is a landmark Bill, and so it has proved for the Go...
Speaker | 440 c227 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made passing reference to that. Will he now confine his remarks to the conten...
Jeff Ennis | 440 c227-8 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I have to accept your ruling, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have already made the basic point ...
Nadine Dorries | 440 c228 (Link to this contribution) I wanted to speak on three parts of the Bill, but as so many Labour Members seem so agitated about t...
Jim Devine | 440 c228 (Link to this contribution) : Will the hon. Lady give way?
Jeff Ennis | 440 c227 (Link to this contribution) Certainly not. Some Labour Members may not be able to speak because of all the interventions that ha...
Speaker | 440 c227 (Link to this contribution) Order. I wonder if the hon. Gentleman would relate his remarks to the content of the Bill that we ar...
Jeff Ennis | 440 c227 (Link to this contribution) But, Madam Deputy Speaker, I feel strongly that the issue should be considered when we debate the Bi...
Kevin Barron | 440 c225 (Link to this contribution) : I worked down coal mines for many years, and the National Coal Board had to take action to protect...
David Kidney | 440 c224 (Link to this contribution) I will indeed, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hope that the Bill will receive our support on Second Reading...
Laurence Robertson | 440 c225 (Link to this contribution) I am a smoker, but I consider myself to be a very considerate smoker. I would not smoke in someone e...
Jeff Ennis | 440 c227 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak mainly about part 1, but I shall not repeat what has already been said. Essentially,...
Michael Fabricant | 440 c227 (Link to this contribution) : Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Martin Horwood | 440 c226 (Link to this contribution) : I thank the hon. Gentleman—my neighbour—for giving way. I am sure that he is right about what a wo...
David Kidney | 440 c222-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) on his passionate speech. I begin with t...
Speaker | 440 c224 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will confine his remarks to the Bill before us.
Speaker | 440 c214 (Link to this contribution) Order. Several hon. Members hope to catch my eye. If they could be brief in their remarks, more of t...
Julie Morgan | 440 c214-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in the debate on the Second Readi...
Richard Taylor | 440 c217-9 (Link to this contribution) I have to admit that I am one of those described by the hon. Member for Sunderland, North (Bill Ethe...
Andrew Mackinlay | 440 c219 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Dr. Taylor) spoke about MRSA and the massive cover-up that has gone...
Andrew Mackinlay | 440 c220 (Link to this contribution) No, I cannot give way; I do not have time. We want more effort from the Government. They have begun...
Charles Walker | 440 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this important debate. My father died a...
Speaker | 440 c221 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman’s time is up.
Stephen Williams | 440 c182 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Frank Dobson | 440 c182 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make one or two simple points. Smoking in enclosed spaces kills people. It kills s...
Steve Webb | 440 c180-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point about the liberty argument, which our party considered. We...
Steve Webb | 440 c180 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Essentially, we are partly talking about a cultural shift towards smoke-fre...
Stephen Williams | 440 c180 (Link to this contribution) I notice that the Minister is trying to be helpful by saying, from a sedentary position, that signs ...
Stephen Dorrell | 440 c185 (Link to this contribution) I shall come on, if I may, to that argument. I was trying to respond specifically to the argument th...
Tim Farron | 440 c185 (Link to this contribution) : Is not the right hon. Gentleman guilty of not giving due balance to the right of the non-smoker an...
Stephen Dorrell | 440 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) I agreed with two things that the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson) said....
Frank Dobson | 440 c182-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I would like to make progress, as other hon. Members would like to make a contribution. The Gov...
Frank Dobson | 440 c185 (Link to this contribution) In his liberal Conservatism, the right hon. Gentleman—who usually talks more sense than he is talkin...
Stephen Dorrell | 440 c185 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way once more, then I shall make progress.
Joan Walley | 440 c187-8 (Link to this contribution) I have the greatest respect for medical officers, and when the right hon. Member for Charnwood (Mr. ...
Stephen Dorrell | 440 c185-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with that argument. There are very few people, if any, who are clinically unable to g...
Kevin Barron | 440 c185 (Link to this contribution) When the right hon. Gentleman was Secretary of State for Health, he did not spend anywhere near the ...
Stephen Hesford | 440 c188 (Link to this contribution) : Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the logic of his position is that he would legalise class...
Eric Forth | 440 c188 (Link to this contribution) My two least favourite words in the political lexicon are ““modernisation”” and ““prohibition””. Whe...
Eric Forth | 440 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) The policy on drugs has been such an overwhelming failure until now that it is time that we had the ...
Kevin Barron | 440 c174-5 (Link to this contribution) It is likely to be very dangerous, but I do not want to go into all the issues about drinking. I see...
Julie Morgan | 440 c174 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that by exempting bars that do not serve food, young people will be ...
Kevin Barron | 440 c174 (Link to this contribution) I am not too sure whether that is the lesson of the Irish Republic. None the less, there is a danger...
Laurence Robertson | 440 c176 (Link to this contribution) : I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman, as I do to all his speeches. However, if we were t...
Steve Webb | 440 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the Chair of the Select Committee, the right hon. Member for Rother Valle...
Speaker | 440 c175 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman has had his allocation.
Kevin Barron | 440 c175 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way again. The Health Committee and I did an experiment with ““You and Yours””,...
Howard Stoate | 440 c177 (Link to this contribution) May I assist the hon. Gentleman? He says that it is difficult to define food and to determine whethe...
Andrew Murrison | 440 c178 (Link to this contribution) I think that we understand the hon. Gentleman’s position on smoking tobacco. I hope that he will com...
Steve Webb | 440 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) I had not considered that point, but I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is keeping in close contact w...
Martin Horwood | 440 c178 (Link to this contribution) There is an instance of that in my constituency, where one pub is considering redesignating itself a...
Steve Webb | 440 c178 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s comment gives rise to the interesting point that enforcement will be difficult ...
Colin Challen | 440 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) There is another problem with the partial ban. A disabled person—registered or not; it does not matt...
Steve Webb | 440 c178 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend helpfully illustrates my point. The ban will be easy to circumvent and therefore poss...
Stephen Williams | 440 c179 (Link to this contribution) : I draw my hon. Friend’s attention to the initiative undertaken recently by smoke-free Bristol. The...
Steve Webb | 440 c179 (Link to this contribution) That possibility has been raised in the context of employment rights. Provided that there continue t...
Steve Webb | 440 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. For the Government to say that tackling health inequalities is a key priori...
David Leslie Taylor | 440 c208 (Link to this contribution) Three weeks ago, we commemorated the 400th anniversary of the gunpowder plot. Received wisdom has it...
Howard Stoate | 440 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) May I assist my hon. Friend by pointing out that if smokers use the product as intended by the manuf...
Julie Morgan | 440 c207 (Link to this contribution) : Is the hon. Lady aware that the Welsh Assembly has already voted in favour of a complete ban?
Iris Robinson | 440 c207-8 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of that and I withdraw the point about Wales. I was about to say that New Zealand became...
Bill Etherington | 440 c205 (Link to this contribution) We all get to hear different views. Yes, the thing might have been accepted in Ireland, but many thi...
Iris Robinson | 440 c205-7 (Link to this contribution) I make no apology for the fact that I intend to speak principally about the smoking ban. It would be...
Bill Etherington | 440 c204-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that contribution, and I am pleased to be able to give her a detailed ans...
Doug Naysmith | 440 c205 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been talking about alienating minorities, but what does he think the difference i...
Betty Williams | 440 c204 (Link to this contribution) : Does my hon. Friend not remember the train operating companies’ system, with a no-smoking section ...
Bill Etherington | 440 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate. There appear to be two diametrically opposed views. There are t...
David Amess | 440 c213 (Link to this contribution) Many hon. Members wish to speak, so I shall simply say that I agree with my hon. Friend. Clauses 24...
Sandra Gidley | 440 c213 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to hon. Members for not being present for the whole debate. As the only pharmacist in th...
David Amess | 440 c213-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady was a member of the Health Committee and has great knowledge of the subject. Again, so...
Michael Fabricant | 440 c210-1 (Link to this contribution) I have not. I have been listening to the hon. Member for North-West Leicestershire (David Taylor),...
David Leslie Taylor | 440 c211 (Link to this contribution) I stand second to none in the Chamber in my admiration for the upright stance and integrity of my ne...
Philip Dunne | 440 c213 (Link to this contribution) On ophthalmic services, I urge the Minister to consider the rural aspects of ophthalmic services, cu...
David Leslie Taylor | 440 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) In just a sentence, my hon. Friend has demonstrated the lunacy of the case of the tobacco manufactur...
Bob Laxton | 440 c191 (Link to this contribution) No, not even to the previous Conservative Member for Derby, North, whom I was pleased to defeat at t...
Lord Young of Cookham | 440 c191-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Derby, North (Mr. Laxton), who runs a serious risk of...
Bob Laxton | 440 c190 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there is an argument for that. By now, anyone would have concluded that, as a virulent anti-sm...
Martin Horwood | 440 c190 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Eric Joyce | 440 c190 (Link to this contribution) If someone wanted to work in a pub that allowed smoking, would my hon. Friend use exactly the same a...
Bob Laxton | 440 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not take interventions. The Bill gives people such as me an element of choice, which I ...
Greg Knight | 440 c191 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Paul Burstow | 440 c201-3 (Link to this contribution) On the basis of the research that the Select Committee has seen so far on the efficacy of ventilatio...
Eric Joyce | 440 c195 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentioned in passing the question of displacement, but she did not give it sufficient...
Louise Ellman | 440 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct to say that that matter should be taken into account. However, the evidenc...
Jacqui Lait | 440 c196-7 (Link to this contribution) All my life, I have been chary of having good done unto me, and I am afraid that I put the part of t...
Howard Stoate | 440 c197 (Link to this contribution) : To answer the hon. Lady’s question, another part of the health service in which a person can get a...
Jacqui Lait | 440 c197 (Link to this contribution) I also seem to remember that it can often take two days to get a prescription filled. We can make a...
Joan Ruddock | 440 c197-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill. My constituency suffers from grave multi-deprivation, and in the most deprived w...
Paul Burstow | 440 c199-201 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak to parts 1 and 2 of the Bill, starting with the section on infection control issues ...
Andrew Murrison | 440 c201 (Link to this contribution) : Will the hon. Gentleman draw a distinction between an ambient atmosphere and an occupational setti...
Louise Ellman | 440 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) I praise the Government for the positive and strong efforts that they have made in addressing the pr...
Kevin Barron | 440 c173 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I would have thought that he was reasonably hap...
Speaker | 440 c172 (Link to this contribution) Order. There were two things wrong with that intervention: first, the hon. Gentleman used the second...
Kevin Barron | 440 c172-3 (Link to this contribution) I will leave clause 18 to my hon. Friend the Minister, who may talk about that issue. I am more conc...
Iris Robinson | 440 c174 (Link to this contribution) : Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is more than likely that pubs serving grub will eventu...
Lord Lansley | 440 c173 (Link to this contribution) For the purposes of accuracy, I did not say that I had not seen the code of practice on health-care ...
Kevin Barron | 440 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) I misheard the hon. Gentleman. I want to move on to the aspect of the Bill that is more contentious...
Kevin Barron | 440 c172 (Link to this contribution) I shall first declare an interest—I am a lay member of the General Medical Council. I have been very...
Howard Stoate | 440 c172 (Link to this contribution) : Dame Janet concluded that the control of such drugs should be passed to the Royal Pharmaceutical S...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c150 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a little more progress at this point and then I will take further interventions. Today...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c150 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way in a moment. Smoking is already—thank goodness—far less common than it used to be. ...
Steve Webb | 440 c150 (Link to this contribution) Can the Secretary of State clarify a simple factual question: did she try to persuade the Cabinet to...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c149-50 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has raised early in this debate what the exemptions should be, but I would refer him ...
Jim Devine | 440 c150 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that I was not actually elected on the manifesto, coming in, as I...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c150 (Link to this contribution) I give way first to my hon. Friend the Member for Livingston (Mr. Devine).
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c150 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Livingston makes an important point, to which ...
Speaker | 440 c150 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps we can leave that for a speech. Interventions should be short.
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c147-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. We want to give PCTs the ability to secure the best servic...
Helen Jones | 440 c147 (Link to this contribution) As someone who has been using opticians since the age of seven, may I ask my right hon. Friend about...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c146-7 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman raises an important point. As for private hospitals and the independent sec...
Stephen Dorrell | 440 c146 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has been talking about the code of practice that will be introduced to enforc...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c147 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, which we will look into carefully when we draw up the detai...
Howard Stoate | 440 c147 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for her remarks on community pharmacies. I am sure that they will be gr...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c146 (Link to this contribution) I make again the point that I have made before: thanks to our investment and unprecedented funding f...
Mark Pritchard | 440 c146 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that the Government can have all the codes that they want to try a...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c146 (Link to this contribution) As I have already told the House, more people are being vaccinated against winter flu than ever befo...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c149 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to take further interventions because I wish to turn to another very important matter...
Andrew Turner | 440 c149 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way before she discusses smoking. In her response...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c148-9 (Link to this contribution) No. The hon. Gentleman is very persistent, but I have already said that I will not give way, because...
Lord Bellingham | 440 c148 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Speaker | 440 c148 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Secretary of State said that she does not intend to give way.
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c148 (Link to this contribution) The Bill will also strengthen the powers of the NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service, w...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c148 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s final point is right. These changes will help to continue improving the quality of ...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c148 (Link to this contribution) I wish to make some more progress, because I know that there are many other issues that hon. Members...
Andy Reed | 440 c148 (Link to this contribution) I accept that PCTs are often well placed to drive up the level of provision in their area, but does ...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c145 (Link to this contribution) That would be a matter for the Healthcare Commission to consider, under the new code and under the B...
Lord Lansley | 440 c145 (Link to this contribution) I fear that the Secretary of State has not answered the perfectly reasonable question asked by the h...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c145 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. It is not acceptable to try to achieve infection targe...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c145-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is doing exactly what he did in that debate two weeks ago, and ignoring the fact ...
Lord Lansley | 440 c145 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State does not have to give way to me, so I am grateful to her for doing so again—b...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c144 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I am proud to introduce a Bill that is a la...
Paul Burstow | 440 c144-5 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State referred to the statutory code and the consultation held on it. Last year’s N...
Lord Lansley | 440 c163-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention, and I hope to be at the launch of children’s c...
David Leslie Taylor | 440 c168 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman clarify something for the House and extend his earlier comments? It is true ...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c153 (Link to this contribution) I want to finish this point. I have also made it clear that we intend to monitor the impact of the ...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c152-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. The prevalence of smoking in England and other pa...
Lord Lansley | 440 c160-1 (Link to this contribution) Before the election, we made it clear in a document that was published in February that we believe t...
Nadine Dorries | 440 c228-9 (Link to this contribution) No, because other Members want to speak. [Interruption.] Labour Members want to speak, too. The rea...
Stephen Williams | 440 c175 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Steve Webb | 440 c176-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues went a long way towards achieving that. I draw a distinct...
Desmond Turner | 440 c149 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend is aware that many of us see a fatal flaw and contradiction in t...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c149 (Link to this contribution) The measures in the Bill are designed to increase the choice that is available to patients in Englan...
Angela Watkinson | 440 c164 (Link to this contribution) The workplace argument does not apply to older people who have retired. Does my hon. Friend concede ...
Lord Lansley | 440 c170 (Link to this contribution) I understand exactly the point that my hon. Friend makes and he is right. At the heart of what we ne...
Laurence Robertson | 440 c226-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made his point. If he will forgive me, I shall not respond to it in detail be...
Stephen Dorrell | 440 c185 (Link to this contribution) I shall make two points in reply to that. First, during our years in government, tobacco consumption...
David Amess | 440 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) I am beginning to feel sorry for the Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Don Va...
Bob Laxton | 440 c190 (Link to this contribution) Unlike the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth), who could by no stretch of the...
Patricia Hewitt | 440 c145 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way one more time to the hon. Gentleman on this point.
Laurence Robertson | 440 c225-6 (Link to this contribution) For goodness’ sake, I do not think that it is possible to go down a coal mine and discover it to be ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 440 c220-1 (Link to this contribution) A large part of England, anyway. Earlier, the right hon. Member for Charnwood (Mr. Dorrell) said th...
Tim Farron | 440 c180 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend acknowledge the research by groups such as Action on Smoking and Health which re...
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Standards
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