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HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Fourth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. Having spent decades helping people quit smoking, I would like the hon. Member to think carefully about saying that…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Third sitting)Will the right hon. Lady give way?09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Third sitting)Software systems I have worked with already have the facility to differentiate by product, including for razor blades and alcohol products. That already exists across retail and…09 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q We have spoken a bit about the gradual change and about that preventing uptake, but how does the gradual change in the age of sale affect the impact on tobacco and vaping…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)Q Comparatively, how addictive is nicotine in tobacco and vapes compared with other products? I seem to remember that it is harder to get off nicotine than methadone. Is that…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you for the evidence submissions so far. In your opinion, will the Bill’s restriction of flavours for vaping products prevent the appeal to children and ex-smokers, if…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (First sitting)I declare an interest as a practising pharmacist. [Interruption.]07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q From what I remember, vapes really started in the UK around 2010. Do you think that the Bill is sufficiently future-proof for the next evolution of nicotine or oral tobacco…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, Chair. In a couple of your answers it seemed that you were almost putting the point that maybe a vape should be a medicinal product. Is that the view of the MHRA? Dr…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q I thought you said that there are no licensed products on the market? Dr Laura Squire: There are not, which is why that is the way we would prefer to do it. Again, if we…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q When we give a new medicine to somebody, we give them advice and explain what it is and what it is safe to do with it. When people get vapes, do they get the right level of…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q You have listed a couple of bits, but do you think there are any further measures that would help to limit the appeal of vapes to children and young people? Matthew Shanks: I…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q The only thing I would say to that is I can go into a small Tesco and it sells different things from the other small Tescos. Inga Becker-Hansen: Precisely. But then it should be…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q Would you like to explain how it would affect the confidence of the individual going into that shop? Inga Becker-Hansen: If you have certain branches of a certain brand selling…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q I can understand how it would increase complexity for a large retail organisation, but I cannot understand how it will individually affect the confidence of an individual…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q From my point of view, if I had one shop, I would have a larger burden with an individual licence. If I had 1,000 shops, I would have the same burden. That does not seem to…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q We talked a little bit about the new licensing scheme’s impact on retailers, and you have talked about a level playing field. You say that large companies should have one…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q Thinking specifically about vapes, do you feel that this Bill goes far enough in providing tougher regulations and more resources for enforcement, while balancing the burden on…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q We have touched on local variations. How do you think local variations should take into account the small variations in health inequalities that exist in different areas? You…07 Jan 2025HANSARDTobacco and Vapes Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you believe the measures in the Bill to prevent vapes appealing to children are likely to work? Alison Challenger : The short answer is yes, I think they do. The need not to…07 Jan 2025