Clause 9 - Prohibition of free distributions
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]
4:30 pm
Mr David Amess (Southend West, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to take the following amendments: No. 39, in page 4, line 29, leave out 'or effect'.
No. 43, in page 4, line 36, before 'each', insert
'all reasonable steps are taken to ensure that'.
No. 40, in page 4, leave out lines 40 and 41.
No. 50, in clause 11, page 6, line 15, leave out
'or whose effect is to do so'.
Mr. Wilshire: In order to help the Committee to make progress, I tell the Minister that she need not pour great scorn on me for being in favour of amendment No. 42 or read me many pages of briefing on it because I shall ask leave to withdraw it.
I plead guilty to drafting amendment No. 42, and displeasure should not fall on any of my hon. Friends because they were not party to it. In my defence, I can say only that I was listening to an especially tedious debate in the Chamber last Friday afternoon while I examined the Bill. Perhaps that frame of mind caused me to draft the amendment.