Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 16 Jun 2015
Drugs: Ultra-rare Diseases
"We are all extremely grateful that the hon. Gentleman has been so generous in giving way. Like him, I was at Downing Street last week, supporting my constituent Harry Barnley, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The headquarters of the Batten Disease Family Association are in Farnborough in my constituency. …..."Gerald Howarth - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 5th March 2015
Asked by:
Gerald Howarth (Conservative - Aldershot)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Impact Assessment for the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015, which derives key valuables in its cost benefit analysis from the work of Pechey et al, what account he has taken of the statements in that article that it relies on best guess estimates and that its authors have an economic or personal stake in the issue.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The Impact Assessment makes clear how this research was used on page 53. It also considers the uncertainty associated with the estimates in the “Sensitivity and Risk” analysis on page 69.
The published research paper includes a section on competing interests. The authors state that they have no connections to the tobacco industry, nor any financial or non-financial competing interests that relate to the area of this study.
A copy of the research paper is attached.
The Impact Assessment can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/standardised-packaging-of-tobacco-products-draft-regulations
Written Question
Thursday 5th March 2015
Asked by:
Gerald Howarth (Conservative - Aldershot)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will delay implementation of standardised tobacco packaging until data on its effects on smoking prevalence in Australia is available.
Answered by Jane Ellison
The draft regulations laid in Parliament on 23 February have a coming-into-force date of May 2016.
Certain parts of the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations implement the European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and are therefore required to be brought into force in May 2016. For those regulations that introduce further requirements, it is clear that there are benefits for business if the requirements of the TPD and standardised packaging requirements are implemented at the same time.
Australian Government figures, from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey, show that smoking prevalence is at an all-time low since the implementation of standardised packaging. This change is likely to be attributable to cumulative effects of a range of policies, including standardised packaging.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Feb 2015
GP Services
"Will my hon. Friend give way?..."Gerald Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Feb 2015
GP Services
"I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend and to the House, because I have been following this important debate not only occasionally in the Chamber, but on the screens. In the area around Aldershot and Camberley, GPs have got together to provide out-of-hours services run by them, and it …..."Gerald Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 15 Jan 2015
Contaminated Blood
"Like other colleagues, I pay tribute to the work that my right hon. Friend has done on this. I do not have any constituents who are affected, but I have served in this House, along with him, since 1983, and I feel that this is business that neither the House …..."Gerald Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions
"May I take this opportunity to salute the efforts made by Frimley Park hospital, the first hospital in the land to have been awarded outstanding status by the Care Quality Commission? Is it not the case that it has responded well to the pressures and elicited praise from my constituents, …..."Gerald Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 02 Sep 2014
Aerospace Industry
"I reinforce the point that my hon. Friend made about the lead time for developing new aircraft today in comparison with even a generation ago. This morning, we had a briefing from the Royal Navy project director on the joint strike fighter programme. That programme has taken 14 years of …..."Gerald Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 02 Sep 2014
Aerospace Industry
"It is a delight to participate in the debate under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone, and to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Worcestershire (Sir Peter Luff), who was my colleague at the Ministry of Defence. He has done us all a great favour in raising the debate, which …..."Gerald Howarth - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 02 Sep 2014
Aerospace Industry
"The hon. Gentleman makes a good point about having one hand tied behind our back. Our businesses are not hugely helped by the anti-corruption legislation that we have put in place, which other countries do not sign up to as readily as we do. In fairness, I acknowledge the huge …..."Gerald Howarth - View Speech
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