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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I was merely giving examples.28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for giving way, although I would point out that it was not my hon. Friend the Member for Farnham and Bordon’s amendment at all.28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)He is supporting it, but the Minister asked why my hon. Friend did not include things in it. The answer is that he did not write it. The amendments were written by others, one by…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The Minister is suggesting that to be able to restrict access to these products in prisons, he needs to have a wide scope within clause 136. Given that prisons are already…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The Minister is making a reasonable point. However, the evidence can change on what constitutes a significant amount of smoke—in the past, people may have believed that someone…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The Minister is being generous with his time. He knows my thoughts on smoking and vaping, particularly in relation to children, and how important I think creating a smoke-free and…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for his clear explanation of what he wishes to achieve. I have great sympathy with it, because nobody wants to see people making their health worse by…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The key difference between a mobile phone and a cigarette is that with mobile phones, it is the driver using a mobile phone while driving that is the problem. If one is pulled…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)That’s not true!28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 84, in clause 136, page 77, line 33, at end insert— “(3A) In section 7 (Offence of smoking in smoke-free place)— (a) in subsection (6), at end insert ‘,…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)This group of amendments comes back to the principle of proportionality, because there is not complete coherence between the different penalties across the United Kingdom and on…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I do not seek to weaken the Bill or its enforcement. I wish to see the Bill be successful in stopping people smoking and vaping, particularly our young people, and I wish to see…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Does the Minister accept that a fixed penalty notice of £200 is actually a more lenient penalty than a fine of £1,000 or a caution, which incurs a criminal offence?28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for outlining his thoughts on the matter, and I do not want to see the Bill weakened in this regard. As such, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for setting out what the clauses do, which is, essentially, to provide for smoke-free places in England. Clause 136 introduces changes to the Health Act 2006,…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for City of Durham for her excellent point; I agree entirely with her that we need to ensure that children are not exposed to cigarettes. Could the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The Minister is making a very powerful argument that smoking outside also poses a danger to the health of the nearby public. On that basis, if I were taking an older relative—with…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Can the Minister clarify a point? There seems to be a contradiction in my mind, but perhaps I have not understood him correctly. On the one hand, he is being very clear in stating…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I remain a bit confused. On the one hand, the Minister has been very clear: no consultation on hospitality areas. On the other, he has been clear that consultation will occur on…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The Minister is right to say that the clause recasts an existing regulation-making power in section 3(5) of the Health Act 2006, whereby the Secretary of State may make…28 Jan 2025