Member of Parliament
Jack Rankin
Member since
04 Jul 2024
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Last spoke
27 Apr 2026
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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)The nub of clause 3 is age verification. The reason the Minister and the Government do not want tobacco vending machines in operation is not that they do not want convenience for…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fifth sitting)Certainly in my experience, the only reason people sell unpackaged cigarettes is to make them cheaper for schoolchildren, so I find it strange that subsection (2) states that the…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco 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)At first sight, the clause can appear to follow on naturally from the rest of the Bill, and in some sense it does, but I think it is important. We heard from shopkeepers in the…14 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)That is exactly the kind of situation I am thinking of. The language could be a bit more practical, less legal and it might aid that shopkeeper to point to an external source for…14 Jan 2025
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