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Smoking In Pubs

EDM number 356 in 2004-05, proposed by Laurence Robertson on 09/12/2004.

That this House believes that the person best placed to know how to run his pub and to assess how to accommodate and meet his customers' needs most appropriately is the local landlord; believes that a ban on smoking in pubs would be illiberal and would remove the right of millions of law-abiding people to enjoy a relaxing drink and smoke in their local pubs; believes that a smoking ban would have a seriously detrimental effect on the licensed trade; understands that many staff who work in pubs smoke themselves; notes that a number of smaller country pubs do not actually employ staff at all anyway; recognises that people considering working in pubs make that choice knowing that they may well encounter smoky atmospheres at work; also recognises that people going into pubs for social purposes make the same choice; believes that preventing people from smoking in pubs in order to protect those who work in pubs, who may be smokers themselves anyway, is inconsistent with, for example, allowing people to work down coal mines and with chemicals; and believes that, if there is a demand for non-smoking pubs, or pubs which have both smoking and non-smoking areas, the free market would deliver such establishments; and totally rejects the idea of a ban on smoking in pubs, believing it to be the responsibility of the pub landlord to decide what kind of establishment he wishes to run, having due regard to his customers and staff.

This motion has been signed by a total of 13 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Laurence Robertson09/12/2004TewkesburyConservativeProposed
David Burnside13/12/2004South AntrimUUPSigned
Rudi Vis13/12/2004Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
David Wilshire14/12/2004SpelthorneConservativeSigned
John Cummings15/12/2004EasingtonLabourSigned
Alan Hurst16/12/2004BraintreeLabourSigned
Ann Winterton16/12/2004CongletonConservativeSigned
David Amess10/01/2005Southend WestConservativeSigned
Mark Field13/01/2005Cities of London & WestminsterConservativeSigned
Nigel Evans17/01/2005Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Edward Garnier17/01/2005HarboroughConservativeSigned
Bill Etherington18/01/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David HamiltonUnknownWithdrawn

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