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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I think the Minister is teasing me ever so slightly. I just want to say that I did write what I said; it was not given to me by the IEA.28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Government Members will be glad to know that I do not intend to repeat my points from the previous clause. Like the shadow Minister, I am less familiar with heated tobacco…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My hon. Friend gets to the nub of the point that I am making. Vapes can be a tool to help the Government in their desire to create a smoke-free generation, and this legislation…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is nice to have a fellow freedom fighter on the Committee— [ Interruption. ] I am trying to get the Minister to intervene. My third point is one to which I think the Minister…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am afraid to say to Government Members and to the shadow Minister that I am going to break up the cosy consensus. I had lunch at the Institute of Economic Affairs, which has…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is not that people are not going to vape. They will go outside to the designated vaping spot, which in the overwhelming majority of instances will be either the same place that…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)As my hon. Friend knows, I am not a doctor as she is, but I will repeat that Cancer Research UK said that there is “no good evidence that second-hand e-cigarette vapour is…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I agree with my hon. Friend that this is a step too far. Does he also agree that this would be an enormous waste of police time? The police often get their priorities wrong as it…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I will come on to the point about the relative effects of second-hand vaping and of smoking, but I will make some progress first. My second point, which I have made throughout our…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I would not describe myself as libertarian; I would say I was arguing straightforward centre-right classical liberal opinions, rather than libertarian ones, but we might differ on…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My hon. Friend’s points have been noted for the record. From what I have read and seen in the representations to the Committee and more widely, heated tobacco seems to me to be…28 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will bring my remarks to a close, Mr Dowd, but I will make the point that some of these sponsors are online crypto casinos. I would argue that they are worse than vapes, so I…23 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Twelfth sitting)I encourage my hon. Friend not to criticise the Minister for doing something quite sensible in pursuing this evidence-based approach. I have said before that people who have a…23 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Twelfth sitting)I wholeheartedly support the Government on tobacco, but does my hon. Friend agree with me that there might be an inconsistency being applied here? For example, vaping and nicotine…23 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for her intervention.23 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Twelfth sitting)In my home office, I have a wonderful watercolour painting of the Lord’s pavilion that celebrates Lancashire winning the Benson & Hedges cup final sometime in the mid-1990s. I…23 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention and I will seek to address both interventions in my further remarks. The point I was making to the Labour party is that a lot of its…23 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am glad to hear that—it sounds like positive news, but I will finish my point and go down the list. Crystal Palace FC is sponsored by Net88, a Vietnamese betting company;…23 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eleventh sitting)Members will be glad to know that I have curtailed my remarks, because the Conservative Benches almost seem to be in agreement, which will delight the Whip. However, I do have…23 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Eleventh sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her comment. I was struck in the written evidence—we have been overwhelmed with written submissions; I am not sure whether we were expected to read them…23 Jan 2025