Speech Index

• 16 June 2009 - Addiction to Prescription and Over-the-counter Medication, An Adjournment Debate In Westminster Hall
• 12 June 2009 - Khat Facts Launch Speech Made During National Tackling Drugs Week, At the Bolton Science and Technology Centre, Farnworth
• 2 June 2009 - Food Safety and the Public Analyst Service An Adjournment Debate in Westminster Hall

May 2009

• 21 May 2009 - Engineering Council UK ‘Sustainability Guidelines’.  Speech given at the leaflet launch
• 14 May 2009 - Physical Dependence and Addiction to Prescription and Over-the-counter Medication.  Speech given at the 6th UK/European Symposium on Addictive Disorders (UKESAD 2009)
• 5 May 2009 - Impact of Unregulated Importation of Health Products from the Channel Islands.  An Adjournment Debate in Westminster Hall

April 2009

• 30 April 2009 - “That this House Would Negotiate with Hamas” - The Oxford Union Debate

March 2009

• 27 March 2009 - Speech Made At the Centenary Dinner for Farnworth Town Hall
• 3 March 2009 - Private James Smith And the First World War - an Adjournment Debate

February 2009

• 6 February 2009 - 'Substance Misuse: Some Current Controversies' - a presentation at a ‘Substance Misuse Workforce Away Day’ Last Drop Village, Bolton

January 2009

• 21 January 2009 - Mountain Rescue Teams - an Adjournment Debate in Westminster Hall

November 2008

• 19 November 2008 - Road Traffic (Accident Compensation) Bill 2008.  Bill presented under the Ten Minute Bill Rule

May 2008

• 21 May 2008 - Liver Disease.  Adjournment Debate in Westminster Hall
• 15th May 2008 - The Funding of Science And Discovery Centres.  A Debate on the Science and Technology Select Committee’s Eleventh Report of Session 2006-07
• 8 May 2008 - Reclaiming Lives: Best Practices for Sustainable Recovery - speech given at the 5th UK/European Symposium on Addictive Disorders (UKESAD 2008)

April 2008

• 3 April 2008 - The Government’s 10-Year Drug Strategy (2008- 2018) - a topical debate
• 2 April 2008 - Biosimilar Medicines.  An Adjournment Debate

February 2008

• 12 February 2008 - Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.  A speech to Bolton Samaritans

January 2008

• 22 January 2008 - Geological Society Dinner
• 15 January 2008 - 21st Century Science Teaching.  An Adjournment Debate in Westminster Hall