Smoking MPs to be given special shelter
MPs to be given specially-constructed smoking shelter outside House of Commons
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Wednesday, 26, Nov 2008 01:01
Complaints from smokers in Parliament about having to light up outside during London's freezing winter have prompted plans for a House of Commons smoking shelter.
Workers and politicians in Westminster only have a limited number of places to smoke since the smoking ban.
Fierce conditions during the winter have made daily puffing routines anything but pleasant.
The issue has been raised on numerous accounts, and now English Heritage, the Westminster city council, and the Commons Administration Committee are working on plans for an affordable and simple Pugin-style smokers' sanctuary.
Promising to be the "Taj Mahal of all smoking shelters," as one MP put it, the design style is named after Augustus Pugin, the architect of the Houses of Parliament.
A budget has yet to be fixed for the project, though the excited boasts hyping the space as Britain's first "neo gothic smoking shelter" show fervent interest in the task.