House of Lords: Smoking Policy

HL Deb 13 October 2000 vol 617 cc59-60WA

Viscount Simon

asked the Chairman of Committees:

Whether the Health and Safety Commission's approved code of practice on smoking in the workplace will be implemented in the House of Lords. [HL4041]

The Chairman of Committees

The Health and Safety Commission has recently announced that it favours the introduction of an approved code of practice on passive smoking at work but no such code has yet been issued. Responsibility for smoking policy in the House other than in staff offices rests, in the first instance, with the sub-committees of the Offices Committee. It will be for those sub-committees to consider any code if and when it is issued.