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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Professor, you talked about choice, and about business and the need to maintain profits by addicting a new generation of people to a nicotine-based product that will be hard for…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Why do you think that is? Professor Agrawal: I do not know. Presumably it is related to what they feel is a good commercial bet or not.01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)Q So you think vapes are available that could be prescribable in the United Kingdom. Professor Agrawal: No, I am not saying that there are: I am saying that companies have started…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I am a consultant paediatrician in the NHS and a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and one of the witnesses this afternoon—Mark Rowland—is known to me.01 May 2024HANSARDSecure 16 to 19 Academies BillI thank those who have contributed today, and the Government and the Minister for their support. I thank the hon. Member for Neath for coming along today and for her contribution.…01 May 2024HANSARDSecure 16 to 19 Academies BillIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I am pleased to deal with clauses one and two together. Secure schools are an innovative new form of custody for…01 May 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)I want to ask about the passive effect of vaping. We know that if you are proximal to someone vaping you can smell the blueberry flavour, or whatever it is. Do you have any…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q I proposed a ten-minute rule Bill to ban disposable vapes last February, so I am delighted to see that the Government have brought in an statutory instrument to do exactly that.…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)I am an NHS consultant paediatrician, and a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q I want to ask you about the licensing regime. You have to have a licence to sell alcohol and tobacco, and some have suggested that you should have to have a licence to sell…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q If someone cannot smoke in a pub, why would not being able to vape in a pub make them smoke? Greg Fell: I am thinking of my logic now, and would agree. What I would not want is…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q There are effects. One reason why a former Government brought in the ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces was so that people would not be forced to experience such a risk,…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q My question follows on from that of my colleague. Lincolnshire police measured what was in vapes confiscated from children in my constituency. They found chemicals like…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q If I may, Mr Fell, I will bring you back to the issue of passive vaping. You talked about there not being so much evidence on the harms of passive vaping compared with passive…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)Q I want to ask about flavourings because we have heard that flavourings may encourage some adults to switch. We know that where adults stop smoking using vapes, flavourings might…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)Q Is that an absence of evidence, or does evidence exist but is inconclusive? Sarah Sleet: I am not aware of any serious evidence that has been gathered around this at this stage.…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)Q In the Health Committee, of which I am a member, we heard evidence that some schoolchildren with lung diseases, such as asthma, were not able to visit school toilets during the…30 Apr 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Sir Robert Pattinson Academy in my constituency is a great school providing an excellent education to children. However, it is struggling with the challenges of aged…29 Apr 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Solar FarmsWill the hon. Gentleman give way?18 Apr 2024HANSARDLarge-scale Solar FarmsOf course. I will get the next sentence out eventually.18 Apr 2024