This page lists every recorded use of the words injurious and injuriously in parliamentary debate during 1985. Each instance is reproduced in its context as recorded in Hansard.
This survey forms part of the evidence for the correct legal interpretation of injurious weeds in the Weeds Act 1959. See also why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law.
| Speaker | Context |
|---|---|
| Mr. Giles Shaw | Some containers made of light plastic, such as a lady's scent bottle, might come into that category, although a plastic bottle is likely to be less injurious than a metal bottle. |
| Mr. Howell | : It would have to be in a container which was not likely to be injurious or broken. |
| Mr. Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside) | Hon. Members of all parties have spoken with deep concern about the likely injurious impact of the regulations. |
| Mr. Pavitt | It shows the way in which Coca Cola, ice cream and so on are injurious to children's health. |
| Mr. Pavitt | There is no way in which one millionth of a part of fluoride added can in any way be injurious to health, and that has been proved time and again. |
| Mr. Gerald Howarth (Cannock and Burntwood) | It is argued that although fluoride may help children for a limited period of their growth, it is injurious to the body and is a possible contributory cause of certain diseases, including— it has been suggested in some quarters— cancer. |
| Mr. Frank Dobson (Holborn and St. Pancras) | Those who spoke earlier showed that in the quantities proposed, fluoride is not injurious to anyone's health. |
| Mr. Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside) | With regard to the quality of services in the counties, the Government have had five years in office, and this settlement and settlements preceding it have had an injurious effect on the quality of services provided by the shire counties. |
| Mr. Eldon Griffiths | They might well seek to make public information that is injurious to the interests of this country, not at the behest or for the benefit of any foreign power, but simply to harm this country itself, whether by causing a rift between it and its allies or otherwise, and by these means to weaken its defences against the overthrow of democratic government here by force." Those are the words of the Security Commission as quoted to the House in the White Paper laid by the Prime Minister in 1981–82. |
| Mr. Michael Meadowcroft (Leeds, West) | Surely they would withdraw that power if they believed that fluoridation was injurious to health. |
| Sir Raymond Gower | asked the Secretary of State for Wales what is his latest information regarding the consequences in Wales of the coal mining strike in loss of coal production, revenue for British Rail, production of steel, production of tinplate, injurious effects on other industries and in consequential loss of jobs; and what consultations he will have with the Confederation of British Industry, leaders of nationalised industries and private industries, local councils and public authorities and with trade unions to seek to secure the earliest possible recovery from these consequences. |
| Mr. Foot | Any attempt by the Government to trivialise Adjournment debates will be injurious to the House. |
| Mr. Barry Jones (Alyn and Deeside) | The system of targets and penalties is deeply injurious to the prospects of the most vulnerable of our pupils in the state sector in rural Wales. |
Injurious weeds and the law | Why “harmful weeds” misrepresents the law