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HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I am listening with intent to the right hon. Gentleman’s contribution. It may be that the Government are more innocent than he suggests and that there is not this hidden agenda he…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]My experience in this place—I am mindful of what my hon. Friend has said already—is that there are two types of Bill to beware of. The first is the Bill whose provisions are so…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I am interested in the Attorney General’s view, and we should take it seriously. Does the hon. and learned Gentleman recognise that primary legislation in this place…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]On that specific point, further to the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis), that presumably means that the Government will press for…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]The hon. Gentleman may not know this, but I collect ceramics, by the way, so I am extremely interested in them. He is right that we should support and, indeed, revere the British…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]rose—01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]I hesitate to interrupt the hon. Gentleman, because he is making a wonderful contribution to our affairs, which is indicative of the beauty of science, about which we hear too…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [Lords]On that note, the point is the one I made to the Secretary of State: where, as the impact assessment suggests, regulations are moving at pace—the Secretary of State repeated…01 Apr 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseAs a Minister, I was partly involved in the introduction of a Groceries Code Adjudicator. The aim of that supermarket ombudsman was to ensure a fair food chain, yet years later,…27 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillThe hon. Gentleman will have read my new clause 12, which asks for a review. It would be really good to look at whether the measure can work in the way he says. I hope he might…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillWhat I am saying to the hon. Lady is that the Government—and the previous Government should have done the same—need to take concerted and decisive action to deal with the…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI will give way to the hon. Gentleman, who is going to tell me why we should.26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI will give way. As I have cited the hon. Lady, how could I do anything other?26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI tell you, there are two things about this legislation—26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillMy hon. Friend has rightly taken a fierce line on illegal tobacco sales in Lincolnshire. Does she acknowledge that those illegal tobacco sales are often linked to serious and…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillIn our post-spiritual or at least post-religious age, two phenomena are evident. When God is forgotten and faith declines, people do not believe in nothing but, as G.K. Chesterton…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI said “two”. I said that there were two things about this legislation.26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI agree that it would be better if children were able to avoid either first-hand or second-hand smoke. We have to stop young people themselves smoking. Sadly, too many people do…26 Mar 2025HANSARDSpring StatementThe Chancellor was right to highlight productivity as an issue, and right, too, to focus on skills shortages, although she did not explicitly note the implicit link between them.…26 Mar 2025HANSARD Tobacco and Vapes BillI am moving to my thrilling peroration, but I will hesitate for a moment or two.26 Mar 2025