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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)With your permission, Dame Siobhain, I will take the intervention on the same subject from the hon. Member for East Renfrewshire.09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)I appreciate the clear cross-party support for the measures in the Bill. I understand that hon. Members will have views on ways to amend or strengthen it, but I urge the Committee…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. She will be interested to know that I have recently written to the Advertising Standards Authority to ask about how well it considers…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)I will give way to the hon. Member for York Central and then to the hon. Member for East Renfrewshire.09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)In response to all those points, I am extremely sympathetic to the need to clamp down on advertising. It seemed to me, when I came to the Bill, that it was important to get a…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)The clause restates the ban on tobacco vending machines in England and Wales. This prohibition came into force in 2011 in England and 2012 in Wales through regulations made under…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)The purpose of clause 3, as with a lot of the clauses that we will debate in line-by-line consideration of the Bill, is to tidy up the statute book for the whole tobacco regime,…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)I will get back to my hon. Friend on that point, which is a good one. This clause and many others are intended to tidy up the statute book, rather than to introduce new subjects…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her views. As I said earlier, I will take away all the views expressed in Committee and reflect on them. I am grateful to her for her comments.…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)Clauses 4 and 38 restate that it is an offence if tobacco retailers do not sell cigarettes in the packaging in which they are supplied. Selling unpackaged cigarettes is currently…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)I do not have all the answers to hon. Members’ questions. The purpose of the clause is to restate and clarify the statute book, so the answer to many of the “Why haven’t you done…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)Clauses 5 and 6 introduce a requirement for age of sale notices in England and Wales to align with the new age of sale for tobacco products. Additionally, clause 42 provides…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Lady makes a fair point. The clarity of the single message is, on balance, considered to be more important. If it is absolutely clear that products may not be sold to…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)Once again, I thank all hon. Members for their thoughtful and considered remarks —I really do appreciate them. Essentially, the questions are pretty much around the product…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend raises an important point. The legislation covers non-nicotine vapes, and unfortunately, as has been pointed out, a number of illicit so-called non-nicotine vapes…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)The key point is that legal vaping products must be notified to the MHRA. If they are compliant, they go ahead. If they are not compliant, they go away and make themselves…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)As the hon. Lady will know, the MHRA is not an enforcement body; enforcement is for trading standards. As I mentioned earlier, there will be new resources for trading standards,…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)I am frantically looking through my pack here. Clause 10 covers nicotine pouches, so we will come on to that— [ Interruption. ] The Whip is saying it will be after lunch, if that…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)Welcome back, everyone. Clause 10 provides regulation-making powers for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in England, and Welsh Ministers, to extend the offences…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)I wholeheartedly endorse almost everything I have heard. I share hon. Members’ concerns and applaud them for their commitment to solving the issue of nicotine pouches. As my hon.…09 May 2024