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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend has previously sought to amend the Bill in various places to add the qualifier “save for the first offence”. It seems to me that, particularly in the first…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)The shadow Minister is a doctor, so she is learned in this area, and she makes the case that snus is harmful in the same way as tobacco. What does she know of the relative harm? I…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)It is, Sir Roger. I went to the toilet.14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)I will ask my hon. Friend about this point later.14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)I have supported the Government so far on the principle of not allowing under-18s to vape, but I am concerned that, as we get to these clauses relating to distribution and…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)rose—14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)Perhaps I explained myself ineloquently —or maybe my hon. Friend was being mischievous in her characterisation. I agree with her wholeheartedly, but I would say that raspberry is…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)I support my hon. Friend wholeheartedly on restricting flavours aimed at children, which I think is the Minister’s intention, but does she agree that vape flavours that are being…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)I am sorry if this is my ignorance as a new legislator, but clauses 7, 8 and 9 applied to England and Wales. However, clauses 56, 57 and 58 apply the same measures to Scotland,…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)We are talking specifically about under-18s. I disagree with some of the later regulations on vaping, but when it comes to under-18s being given vaping products, I am aligned with…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)rose—14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend is making an eloquent case that we should not be advertising vapes, or their pricing and products, to children. What she is not doing is making a case for banning…14 Jan 2025HANSARDMigration Levels: Indefinite Leave to RemainThe mass import of low-skilled workers could cost the taxpayer more than £61 billion—a financial ticking time bomb. Will the Minister commit here and now to extending the…13 Jan 2025HANSARDMigration Levels: Indefinite Leave to Remain16. What estimate her Department has made of the potential impact of levels of net migration on future trends in the number of people who will be granted indefinite leave to…13 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I am well aware that that is the case. Part of the reason for that change in Government—although I do not want to overplay the significance of this singular issue—was that the…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I am sure I am winning some hearts and minds here.09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)The stated aims of the Bill are really quite clear: as the previous Government and the new Government decided, it is a generational smoking ban, such that anybody who turns 18…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I take the Minister’s point, but there is the potential throughout the Bill for double standards. He talks about addiction—I disagree with him, but it is a perfectly reasonable…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I take the Minister’s point somewhat, but I think that there is a conflation of argument here about cigarettes and tobacco. If I may say so, the Minister alternated somewhat…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)I would like to press the amendment to a vote. Question put, That the amendment be made.09 Jan 2025