Health Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question.
Health Bill
Debate on bills on Wednesday, 1 March 2006,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Warner.
The answering
member was Earl Howe.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
679 c276-340
Session
2005-06
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Health Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 76-EN also published.
Wednesday, 15 February 2006
Bills
House of Lords
Wednesday, 15 February 2006
Bills
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Baroness O'Cathain | 679 c293-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall bat that one quickly to the Minister, who used it in his opening speech. The noble...
Baroness O'Cathain | 679 c293 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, a Bill of seven parts should encourage me to examine each of the parts with equal vigilanc...
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Lord Skidelsky | 679 c293 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, where does the noble Baroness get the figure of 600,000 from? I have never seen it. Even t...
Baroness Rendell of Babergh | 679 c290-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I speak today on only one aspect of the Bill—the subject of smoking. One important factor ...
Baroness Cumberlege | 679 c282-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest: I chair St George’s, University of London, I am a trustee of Cancer...
Baroness Barker | 679 c284-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I too thank the Minister for introducing the Bill. At last your Lordships have the opportu...
Lord Warner | 679 c276-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time.
It is a privilege to have the opp...
Lord Warner | 679 c277-81 (Link to this contribution)
These always creep in, my Lords.
I hope that the House will respect the vote—indeed, it was a free ...
Lord Warner | 679 c300-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think that the noble Baroness has subtly missed the comma in my concluding remarks. I ac...
Lord Naseby | 679 c301 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, those of us who were listening to the Minister heard him quite clearly, and I wrote that f...
Baroness O'Cathain | 679 c299 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for giving way. I never once said that ventilation or air conditio...
Lord Naseby | 679 c299-300 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, my noble friend has now added to her speech and anticipated that she meant to say it and f...
Baroness O'Cathain | 679 c300 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord. I have a horrible feeling that I have also misquoted a figure, whi...
Lord Rosser | 679 c296-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I wish to speak in support of the Bill as it has emerged from its passage through the othe...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 679 c334 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, is the noble Lord saying that there will be a free vote on his side of the House? Or is he...
Earl Howe | 679 c332-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this has been a very good debate, which has generated a good deal of what this House enjoy...
Lord Naseby | 679 c335 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, my noble friend says that the evidence is totally conclusive. In that case, why is that ev...
Earl Howe | 679 c335 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it will be a free vote as far as my party is concerned.
I have reached my conclusion with...
Lord Clement-Jones | 679 c329-31 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am quite content to rely on Hansard when the time comes and see whether it was four days...
Lord Skidelsky | 679 c329 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, to correct that point, I never referred to 15 minutes. The noble Lord will see that if he ...
Lord Clement-Jones | 679 c331-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that is an interesting point. I will rely on the usual ministerial response that I will ha...
Lord Monson | 679 c331 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, will the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, clarify one point before he sits down? He said th...
Earl Howe | 679 c335 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I cannot answer for the committee or its proceedings, but there is no shortage of evidence...
Lord Naseby | 679 c301 (Link to this contribution)
No, says the noble Lord, but he does not know the press and he certainly does not know the health lo...
Baroness Murphy | 679 c301-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, noble Lords may be relieved to know that I am not going to talk much at all about the smok...
Lord Walton of Detchant | 679 c320-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am a fervent believer in the rights of the individual and in personal freedom. That leav...
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall | 679 c316-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, when I saw that the noble Baroness, Lady Howarth of Breckland, had put her name down to sp...
Lord Colwyn | 679 c318-20 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, at this stage of a debate there tends to be some repetition, particularly of statistical e...
Lord Geddes | 679 c304-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have enormous sympathy with the noble Viscount, Lord Simon. He put his finger on the poi...
Lord Skidelsky | 679 c306-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will confine my remarks to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Bill, which legislates to ban smok...
Viscount Simon | 679 c303-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think it was last week that an article was published in what we used to call a broadshee...
Lord Monson | 679 c313-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare my usual wholly non-financial interest as president of the Society for Individua...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 679 c310-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, although I have an interest in several areas of the Bill, I intend to concentrate at Secon...
Lord Naseby | 679 c312 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. I said that it would remove, not all, ...
Lord Clement-Jones | 679 c329 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am content to rely on the analysis of the noble Lord, Lord Walton.
To return to the fra...
Lord Clement-Jones | 679 c329 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is a matter of statistical analysis. I am perfectly willing to rely on the contents o...
Lord Walton of Detchant | 679 c329 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is not the question of months or years that is relevant; that is why I could not unders...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 679 c323-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Walton, mentioned Sir Richard Doll. I distinctly remember hearing the...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 679 c325 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I did not want to intervene, but that suggestion has been made twice. I simply said that I...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 679 c325-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, may I interrupt the noble Baroness? I did not quote her; I am sorry if she misheard what I...
Lord Palmer | 679 c326-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Stoddart of Swindon, although it is a diff...
Lord Clement-Jones | 679 c327-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his succinct introduction to the Bill. I also thank my noble frie...
Lord Skidelsky | 679 c328 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as the noble Lord referred to me, I am grateful to him for giving way. What does he unders...
Lord Clement-Jones | 679 c328 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if you read the paper, as I am sure the noble Lord has, there are deaths that are earlier ...
Lord Naseby | 679 c328 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Lord did not answer the noble Lord, Lord Skidelsky. How much earlier are these 6...
Earl Howe | 679 c335 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I take as my brief what expert medical people tell me. I am in no position to second-guess...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 679 c335 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am most obliged to the noble Earl for again giving way. Would he therefore urge the orga...
Lord Monson | 679 c336 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I did not describe any individual as fascist, nor would I do so.
Lord Warner | 679 c336-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I seem to recall that you described this as a health fascist Bill, but we shall let Hansar...
Earl Howe | 679 c335-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in so far as I have any leverage with that committee, I should be glad to do so. I am not ...
Lord Warner | 679 c336 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank most noble Lords for their support for the Bill. I also welcome back the noble Lor...
Lord Warner | 679 c337 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall not continue that debate. I have set out our position on the figures. The noble Lo...
Lord Naseby | 679 c337 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Minister does not answer the question I asked, so I shall put it again. Under the Free...
Lord Warner | 679 c340 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the code is still in draft form, but we have put the latest version of it in the Library b...
Lord Warner | 679 c337 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, that is what I wish to do. I wish to continue with my speech.
Lord Naseby | 679 c337 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I did not raise figures. I raised—
Lord Warner | 679 c337-40 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I wish to continue with my speech.
Let me respond to some other points that were made abo...
Baroness Murphy | 679 c340 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the Minister sits down, in his opening speech he said that the draft code was in th...
Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 679 c335 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have not been able to read the study to which the noble Earl refers. Can he say whether ...
Lord Naseby | 679 c298-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have no interest to declare in this Bill and I certainly have never smoked in my life. I...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 679 c312-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I do not have the facts on that, but I am prepared to look at them and come back to the no...
Baroness Masham of Ilton | 679 c287-90 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Warner, for explaining this Bill so clearly. When the Health ...
Lord Patel | 679 c294-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for introducing the Bill. I strongly support it and, unusually,...
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