Clause 5 - Advertising: defences
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill
10:45 am
Ms Yvette Cooper (Parliamentary Secretary (Public Health), Department of Health; Pontefract and Castleford, Labour)
I understand that a meeting is scheduled between officials and the internet service providers, and I can also tell the hon. Gentleman that officials have had other conversations and contacts with ISPs and continuing discussions with the DTI to ensure that the Bill is fully compatible with the e-commerce directive and that we are fully up to date. We recognise that this is a complicated area, especially given the international issues involved, but it is a sensible approach to set out a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising and then to set out specific, legitimate defences for individual circumstances, because in that way we will maximise our chances of reducing the kind of tobacco advertising that is so damaging to public health and especially to the health of children.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 5, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.