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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I do, which I have just said. The £30 million in the next financial year to boost the enforcement agencies will meet the needs that the Bill sets out. It is also about boots on…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)We want to ensure that people who are smokers are not criminalised. Public space protection orders do potentially go down the criminal route. We want to ensure that that is not…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for her questions. The Government are investing over £100 million over five years to boost His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and Border Force’s…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister, who is now making my case perfectly for why we need to have the regulations as we do. It may well be that, at some stage in the future, a…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The clause relates to an existing regulation-making power in the Health Act 2006 that allows for the Secretary of State to make regulations that permit performers in England to…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Pritchard. Clauses 126 and 127 and schedule 16 contain provisions relating to audiovisual services and radio broadcasting.…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)But he supported it.28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)This is an existing power, in the Health Act 2006, that we have retained in the Bill at the request of the creative industries in England. I reiterate what I said in opening the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The shadow Minister would probably have a large degree of sympathy—at least one of her Back Benchers less so—with our updating the Health Act 2006 to allow us to take action to…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The point is that that is open to interpretation; that now runs counter to our ambition to have a smoke-free United Kingdom. We have put in place a much more flexible and workable…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for her comments. I have a sense of déjà vu, given that we have already debated ad nauseam her desire to weaken the enforcement regime and the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The hon. Lady says that is not true, so maybe it is not quite ad nauseam, but we have covered an awful lot of ground on these arguments.28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I certainly can. I have had umpteen conversations with Health Ministers from across the United Kingdom, and none of them has indicated to me that they intend to extend this to…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I have at no stage said that Ministers would not come back to Parliament. What I have said is that we should not be seeking to find one of those rare things—a slot in a King’s…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am grateful for our debate on amendments 4, 94 and 95. I am even more grateful that a lawyer, my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff West, is sitting behind me—as a non-lawyer, I…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I can speak only for England, but I am legislating for the United Kingdom with the permission of Health Ministers. It may well be that Health Ministers in other parts of the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The hon. Gentleman obviously wrote it after being inspired by his wonderful dinner with members of the idiotic economic arguments committee. I only half jest and half pull his…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I will come to the shadow Minister’s point at the end, but first I want to nail the pernicious lie peddled by the tobacco industry that there is a tobacco product that is an…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford for putting this amendment before the Committee for discussion. The amendment would require the Government, within six…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Clause 136 amends an existing power in the Health Act 2006, relating to the designation of additional smoke-free places, to allow the Secretary of State to make regulations to any…28 Jan 2025