Hansard

The Deputy Presiding Officer (Elaine Smith) Lab

The next item is a debate on motion S4M-15146, in the name of Jim Hume, on the Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Bill. I invite mem...

Jim Hume (South Scotland) (LD) LD

It gives me great pleasure to open this afternoon’s debate on the Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Bill. The bill was introduced o...

Jenny Marra (North East Scotland) (Lab) Lab

I will congratulate the member on his bill in my speech, but I wanted to ask him whether, in the course of considering the evidence on extending the smoking ...

Jim Hume LD

That issue was not consulted on at all. We concentrated absolutely on smoking in motor vehicles, and that is what we consulted on. It might be interesting to...

The Minister for Public Health (Maureen Watt) SNP

I congratulate Jim Hume on introducing the bill and thank him for working closely with the Scottish Government over the past few months, as we worked togethe...

Jenny Marra Lab

On the same point that I raised with Jim Hume, will the Government consider legislating on smoking in shared stairwells in tenement buildings? I am sure that...

Maureen Watt SNP

I have had representations and correspondence about that from members and others. The introduction of such measures is not without its challenges, but we are...

Jenny Marra (North East Scotland) (Lab) Lab

The last bill of 2015 is very well scheduled, as we woke this morning to a new report about cancer and its risk factors. In debates in the chamber, we genera...

Jackson Carlaw (West Scotland) (Con) Con

I begin where Jenny Marra finished, by congratulating Jim Hume on the progress of his member’s bill through to what I think will be unanimous support at deci...

Stewart Maxwell (West Scotland) (SNP) SNP

As others have done, I congratulate Jim Hume on getting his Smoking Prohibition (Children in Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Bill to stage 3. I lodged my propos...

John Mason (Glasgow Shettleston) (SNP) SNP

Stewart Maxwell mentioned enforcement. Is he as convinced as Mr Hume is that it will work? I see many drivers still using their mobile phones in their cars. ...

Stewart Maxwell SNP

Strangely enough, that intervention has echoes of the arguments that were made in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in advance of the smoking ban coming in. There is a dif...

Jim Hume LD

It is a misconception that there is no enforcement of the legislation on using mobile phones in cars or wearing seat belts. According to the last figures tha...

Stewart Maxwell SNP

I thank Mr Hume for that statistic. I think—he probably does, too—that the general public will accept the bill similarly to how they accepted the original ba...

The Deputy Presiding Officer Lab

Mr Maxwell, could you conclude, please.

Stewart Maxwell SNP

The public is in favour of the bill, health professionals are in favour of the bill, and the time is ripe for us to protect our children and move Scotland to...

The Deputy Presiding Officer Lab

I call Malcolm Chisholm. Speeches should be of four minutes, please. 15:30

Malcolm Chisholm (Edinburgh Northern and Leith) (Lab) Lab

I congratulate Jim Hume on introducing the bill, which I am sure that everyone will vote for at decision time. We went over some of the arguments when we d...

Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con) Con

As we round off our work on the bill, I add my thanks to the witnesses who gave both written and oral evidence to the Health and Sport Committee as we scruti...

Dr Richard Simpson (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Lab) Lab

I join other members in congratulating Jim Hume on introducing the bill and seeing it through all its processes. I hope to do something similar in the spring...

The Deputy Presiding Officer (John Scott) Con

You said that you were just about to finish, Dr Simpson.

Dr Simpson Lab

I am. I support the bill and the call for a debate—in Government time—on major public health issues. 15:42

Maureen Watt SNP

I thank all members for their constructive and almost entirely consensual speeches on what is a very important piece of legislation for the health of Scotlan...

Jim Hume LD

It gives me great pleasure that the bill crosses party lines. We have a mutual goal of protecting children’s health in Scotland, which does the Parliament pr...