Clause 11 - Television and radio broadcasting
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill
9:30 am
Ms Yvette Cooper (Parliamentary Secretary (Public Health), Department of Health; Pontefract and Castleford, Labour)
We had that discussion many times in the debates on clauses 1 and 2 and several more clauses since. I have made it clear every time that the word ``advertisement'' in this sense carries its natural meaning. Clause 1 states that a
```tobacco advertisement' means an advertisement—
(a) whose purpose is to promote a tobacco product''.
The main offence in the Bill, as set out in clause 2, relates to
``A person who in the course of a business publishes a tobacco advertisement, or causes one to be published''
or distributed. Our intentions have been made clear.
The Committee has discussed issues surrounding display, and will discuss them again when we reach the new clauses. We have also discussed how the Bill does not include freedom of speech or news reporting. The Bill is competent and adequate, and we have had quite enough debate to make clear the intention of the House on advertising.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 11, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.