Clause 8 - Displays
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]
12:30 pm
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne, Conservative)
That confirms my worst suspicions. The Minister said that we cannot control such people, so it is right to state that in the Bill. There are enough pages of legislation all over the place. We have necessary clauses to consider as it is, which affect the jurisdiction of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. If we are to write into the Bill all the powers that it does not have, we will need a lorry to move it because it will be so vast. I understand the point that we cannot control people outside our jurisdiction. It was helpful of the Minister to admit the obvious, but we still have not got to the bottom of why it is considered necessary to admit the obvious. What is it about the clause that makes it necessary to say that it cannot do something that we all know it cannot do?