Tobacco Products (Standardised Packaging)

Debate between Angela Watkinson and John Bercow

Thursday 3rd April 2014 Commons Chamber

[Dame Angela Watkinson (Hornchurch and Upminster) (Con)]

I support my hon. Friend’s measures to reduce the number of young people smoking, but she will not be surprised to hear that I do not support this measure. Only 5% of under-15s smoke, which is the lowest level for a generation. The Government’s anti-smoking measures that are already in place are clearly working. There are smoking cessation classes and posters in the streets and in every publication we pick up; there are television adverts warning people constantly about the health risks of smoking. Nobody in this country smokes in ignorance. The people who smoke make a deliberate choice to do so—they deliberately ignore all the warnings that are made available to them. We also must not forget parental responsibility in this, because parents are responsible for their children’s habits and for how much money they have to spend unsupervised—

[Mr Speaker]

Order. We are deeply obliged to the hon. Lady.

Parliamentary Representation

Debate between Angela Watkinson and John Bercow

Thursday 27th February 2014 Commons Chamber

[Margot James]

Does my hon. Friend wish to intervene?

[Mr Speaker]

The hon. Member for Hornchurch and Upminster (Dame Angela Watkinson) need not be unduly shy; she would be breaking the habit of a lifetime.

[Dame Angela Watkinson]

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I want to follow up the point about going to universities and enthusing people at that stage. That needs to start even earlier. I have been shocked to find in schools that pupils do not ever read a newspaper or watch news bulletins on television. I encourage them to do so. They think politics and public life are nothing to do with them. Interest in general matters needs to start much earlier.

Transport Infrastructure

Debate between Angela Watkinson and John Bercow

Tuesday 17th December 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

The time has come to call a patient dame. Dame Angela Watkinson.

[Dame Angela Watkinson (Hornchurch and Upminster) (Con)]

Does my right hon. Friend agree that increased airport capacity and quieter aircraft will not just benefit the UK economy but improve the quality of life of my constituents in Hornchurch and Upminster and those in the rest of Greater London by reducing stacking of aircraft, which currently have nowhere to land?

Capital Gains Tax (Rates)

Debate between Angela Watkinson and John Bercow

Wednesday 23rd June 2010 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Debate to be resumed what day?

[The Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury (Angela Watkinson)]

Monday next, Mr Speaker.

[Mr Speaker]

Monday next. We are grateful.

The debate stood adjourned (Standing Order No. 9(3)).

Ordered, That the debate be resumed tomorrow.