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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillThe point I am making is that it is true that the majority of smokers do not sit around and discuss whether filters have a benefit to their health. I am quite sure that, had you…03 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, it is entirely positive that we can say, “Let’s look at the wording of this”; we might have some qualms about whether we need to reword it to avoid unintended…03 Nov 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, I worry that this group of amendments indicates that, in the name of public health, state overreach can get completely carried away with itself. I ask that we take a…03 Nov 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillVaping, as a mechanism for smoking cessation, is now recommended by NICE as the first-line quit method. It has been endorsed by the NHS and it has formed the backbone of the…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillThis has been a wide-ranging debate and I thank the variety of noble Lords who spoke. There has been some clarity: it might not be clarity that I am happy with, but we heard the…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Kamall, and the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, have made some interesting cases probing the issue of the high nicotine content of pouches.…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillI want to clarify how we make policy based on evidence if that evidence is unknown unknowns about what might possibly be the problem with something. It is absolutely the case…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillThe noble Earl, Lord Russell, is good at advertising the product that he is promoting. If anyone is interested in doing PR on anything, this is your man.30 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, I stand with some trepidation on this one, but I will give it a go. I have some reservations about this series of amendments. On Amendment 12, I have a lot of sympathy…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillI can clarify that she has answered her own query in a way. My concern is that lawmaking—and bans—should not be rushed through without any cost-benefit analysis. That is what…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, I am pleased to see this group of excellent amendments. They have been so well explained and motivated that I do not need to add very much more. I support them for a…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, is not able to be here to move this amendment. For me, this amendment falls in a slightly odd group. I thought that it would be in the…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillThe point of vape vending machines in a lot of nightclubs and late-night premises—of which I hear tales and know nothing—is that, when people are out and about, very often they…30 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, on the Minister’s response, I positively welcome the Government’s commitment to this review of the right to be accompanied, and I thank the Government in this instance…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMaybe the Minister could respond to this. There are more opponents to these parts of the Bill than just the party opposite, as the Minister described them. All the concerns that…28 Oct 2025HANSARDNon-crime Hate IncidentsMy Lords, the noble Minister talks about—27 Oct 2025HANSARDNon-crime Hate IncidentsThe noble Lord the Minister—27 Oct 2025HANSARDNon-crime Hate IncidentsI feel as though I am about to be issued with a non-crime hate incident. The noble Lord the Minister talked about the importance of not speaking out ahead of the review yet stated…27 Oct 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes BillMy Lords, I do not want prohibition and I do not want smoking to be illegal, but I feel that I would be having a more honest discussion if that was what was being proposed. I feel…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, Ministers have noted in many of our exchanges that the Bill which we have discussed was a great improvement on the original Bill put forward by the previous Government.…23 Oct 2025