Contributions
1,620 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I think there is another person to whom thanks need to go on the record, and that is my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond and Northallerton (Rishi Sunak). Let us not…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifteenth sitting)My hon. Friend makes the point about the plastic content. I just spotted that in the explanatory statement for new clause 4 from the hon. Member for Dartford, he talks about…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I think it is inevitable that much of this will be legally challenged, because the effect of the legislation is to hamper severely an industry that has a lot of money. They are…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I take the Minister at his word. He is an honourable man and I hear that he has sympathy for the new clause. The important thing is that it gets done, not necessarily that it gets…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifteenth sitting)When we adjourned on Tuesday evening, we were talking about this clause, which relates to shipping and a power to prohibit vaping and so on ships. We were —or I was—talking about…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifteenth sitting)That depends on whether the Minister can assure me that he intends to bring forward legislation under the Environment Act 2021 to deal with plastic filters.30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for making my point, which is that some parts of the United Kingdom are choosing to do this in a different way.30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixteenth sitting)New clause 6 will introduce a process of consultation and scrutiny of the licensing regulations for the retail sale of tobacco products, when the relevant sections of the Tobacco…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for his detailed response to this new clause. Can he confirm that the reports are produced on an annual basis, and will continue to be produced on that basis…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixteenth sitting)But there is nothing to stop the Union doing it together. In the event that England chose to do things at a particular pace, as it has a right to do, the Scots have already chosen…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. New clause 8 is designed to require the Government to produce annual reports detailing the scale of the illegal sale and…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The purpose of new clause 7 is to ensure that the regulations surrounding tobacco products are both well informed and effective before they come into force. Subsection (1)…30 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I shall speak to amendments 95 and 94, which stand in my name. Amendment 95 is similar to the amendment moved by the hon. Member for Dartford a few minutes ago. Members will…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Clause 158 relates to shipping. I think a question was raised earlier about why ships were specifically excluded. That is partly because ships are important enough to have their…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I doubt whether the Minister has provided a huge amount of reassurance to the hospitality sectors in those jurisdictions. I want to pick up on a point made by the hon. Member for…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is talking about the enforcement and practicalities of such a move. If we have a national campaign and national uniformity about the areas in which one can and…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Amendment 14 defines a local authority as “a county council…a district council, a London borough council, the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for making those interesting points. Can he clarify whether powers such as those enacted in Enfield create a criminal offence?28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)My question was not so much about the enforcement, which is defined in the Bill as the local weights and measures authority. Amendment 11 says that a local authority may make…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)In response to what my hon. Friend and the hon. Lady the Member for Worthing West are saying, as a doctor, I have a lot of sympathy with her position. Certainly, if I take my…28 Jan 2025