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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eleventh sitting)My hon. Friend makes her point well, and she is right that there is a slight disagreement between us. The Government should be wary—23 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am going to make some progress. Even judging by the Government’s own standards, we should be treating vaped tobacco and heated tobacco very differently from cigarettes. We…23 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningI thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention; I am sure the Minister takes note of his questions. My view is that yes, the public simply deserve transparency on this issue.…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Tenth sitting)Indeed. In fairness, I also share both the Minister’s and the shadow Minister’s concern. It is very clear that the incremental changes to tobacco retail packaging are one of the…21 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningI beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of re-opening hotels for asylum seeker accommodation. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John, and a…21 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningIt is a privilege to speak on an issue that I know is important to the British public and needs to be urgently addressed by the Government. It is great to see colleagues here from…21 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningI was trying to be generous in my remarks, but I think the point has been made for the record. This issue is emblematic of the failure of our current immigration system. I will…21 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningI agree wholeheartedly, and that is why I have broadened my remarks. To talk about cutting the backlog is not of interest to me, if that simply means processing people into the…21 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningI thank everybody who has contributed to this crucial debate. I certainly agree with my right hon. Friend the Member for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge (Sir Gavin Williamson);…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Ninth sitting)May I put a question? Perhaps the shadow Minister knows, but who is paying for the snuff ordinarily? Is it the Doorkeepers, out of their own pockets, or is there some kind of…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Ninth sitting)Is my hon. Friend also concerned that there might be a power imbalance in that set of circumstances? Windsor castle is in my constituency, and lots of deference is given to it. A…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Ninth sitting)Government Members will be delighted to know that I do not have quite as much content as my hon. Friend the Member for Farnham and Bordon. However, I will make two points, and I…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that point. The point I was trying to make is that although, as Members have heard, I do not necessarily agree with all the impositions on civil…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Ninth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for providing that clarity. That is good to hear, but it is important to put on the record that we in this House should apply the same rules to ourselves…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Tenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. It seems to me, both from the text of the clause and from his introductory remarks, that the Minister aims to do two…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Tenth sitting)It should be given great weight, but generally speaking, there should be a permissive rather than a prohibitive bent in public policy—something the shadow Minister and I might…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Tenth sitting)Earlier in the debate, we voted on a clause about splitting up cigarettes—I was just trying to find which clause it was—so I think we are already proposing to make it illegal to…21 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)I made my substantive points in the previous sitting, so I just want to summarise my position and conclude. Clauses 15, 62 and 80 concern the free distribution and discount of…16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)Shame!16 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Seventh sitting)In my remarks to date, I have tried to support responsible vaping businesses, which I think are legitimate, and to champion vaping as a smoking cessation tool. These clauses are…16 Jan 2025