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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship once again, Sir Gary. I rise to speak in favour of the measures that I and other colleagues on the Committee have proposed.…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. I am always willing to praise people who do the right thing. Unfortunately the SNP Government do not always do the right thing, as…14 May 2024HANSARDReoffending RatesClearly, providing safe and secure accommodation for ex-offenders when they leave prison is the first and most important part of getting them on the path to rebuilding their…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)There is a degree of repetition in this. New clauses 7 and 8 relate to where tobacco products are sold and the licensing of them. There is a genuine debate, in both the industry…14 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)I always seek a spirit of compromise in such circumstances. At the moment, the Bill states: “The amount specified in a fixed penalty notice must be £100.” I am concerned about how…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Siobhain. I rise to support the proposals outlined by the Minister. It came as quite a shock that one of the…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank my right hon. Friend for the speech she is making and of course I absolutely support all the measures in the Bill. One concern, which I think was raised on Second Reading,…09 May 2024HANSARD Business of the HouseToday, we have had the excellent news that Harrow has been allocated Government funding for a new special educational needs school—something that has been campaigned for by the…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)Does the hon. Lady not accept the counter-argument that putting things in the Bill means that we have to change primary legislation, but that by doing things via regulations, the…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)We have to consider the various tactics used by big tobacco. I campaigned long and hard for the standardised packaging of tobacco products, which was finally achieved, and one of…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank my right hon. Friend for explaining the nature of these various different measures. I think retailers will have a concern about, for example, where a manager or an errant…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)I want to put one issue to the Minister before she sums up these clauses. Obviously, the overwhelming number of retailers will wish to conform to the rules and regulations under…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)One of the challenges we are talking about is not only nicotine itself—we had medical evidence last week to suggest the damage it does to the body, let alone its delivery…09 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)One issue that has been raised in the debate is non-nicotine vapes and the potential to get people on to vaping, followed by the escalation, presumably, to nicotine and then,…09 May 2024HANSARD20 mph Speed Limit: Impact on Road Users6. What recent discussions he has had with the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport on the impact of the 20 mph speed limit on residential roads and pedestrian streets…08 May 2024HANSARD20 mph Speed Limit: Impact on Road UsersI thank my right hon. Friend for his answer. Clearly, there is a strong case for 20 mph limits outside schools, in shopping areas and in other areas where there is huge pedestrian…08 May 2024HANSARDWar in GazaThe 130-plus hostages have now been held for 214 days, in barbaric conditions, subject to rape and torture, and denied medical access from the International Red Cross. The sad…07 May 2024HANSARDDefence Spending2. What recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the level of defence spending in Scotland.01 May 2024HANSARDDefence SpendingClearly it is good news for the United Kingdom, and Scotland in particular, that 2.5% of GDP will be spent on defence. Will my right hon. Friend update the House on the number of…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Third sitting)Q I think the whole panel have said they are 100% behind the Bill. It is great that the whole medical fraternity is going together, but are there any tweaks that you would like to…01 May 2024