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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank Members for their contributions. Clauses 16 to 22, clause 85, and schedules 1 to 4 and 11 to 13 establish powers for Ministers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)Where we know an area is moving from a two-tier to a unitary authority, the clue is in the name: the unitary authority will be the licensing authority because there will be only…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)If the hon. Lady lets me finish my contribution, she might get an answer that she likes. I have already had discussions with my officials about how we have less ambiguity in…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)No. The local authority, not the parish council, would be and will remain the licensing authority, as is the case at the present time. Notwithstanding that there may be a…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)I will come to Scotland in due course. Schedule 1 establishes the framework for the regulations. It establishes that the licensing authority will be the local authority, and…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)I was just about to say, Sir Roger, that might be one thing that we have to divide on later. I wish my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford all the best for today and hope that he…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move.16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. May I start by not only thanking the shadow Minister for her support, but congratulating my hon. Friend the Member…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. This group of clauses relates to restricted premises orders. These are existing measures that local authority trading…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)As I have said during previous outings in the course of this Committee, the Bill merely rolls over the existing fines. We would need to do a much more complex piece of work to…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)Scotland does not have the powers in the Bill, and nor does Northern Ireland. We have discussed all of this in terms of where we are legislating for different parts of the United…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)In that case, clauses 28 to 30 relate to restricted sale orders, which are another tool in the arsenal of trading standards that can be used against those who repeatedly commit an…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)The shadow Minister makes an important case for these measures covering England and Wales. There are no known cases of Ministers needing to take over the enforcement of tobacco…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Lady has asked a number of technical questions. We will get back to her and the Committee about the interrelationships between different clauses. On the question that she…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)We have already discussed at length the Government’s intentions to have a robust but workable system that does not overburden retailers, but enables them to have the confidence…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)Yes.16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)If the hon. Lady is not talking about retailers breaking up packets, which is illegal, she is talking, effectively, about proxy purchasing—an adult buying tobacco products for…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)Yes, I believe it will. Of course, this measure is not being taken in isolation, and it is not just a stand-alone measure. This is part of a whole package of tobacco control…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)Clauses 5, 6 and 72 replace the requirement for age of sale notices in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to reflect the new age of sale for tobacco products. Clause 55 provides…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful for the opportunity to open this debate. Amendments 60 to 62, 70 to 72 and 77 to 79 would create a more lenient penalty regime for the offence of possessing the…14 Jan 2025