Clause 3 - Exemptions
Health Bill
1:15 pm
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire, Conservative)
My point is that there should be either a total ban or nothing at all, and we should explore the routes of self-regulation. From Conservative Members’ perspective, there is a free vote. Perhaps I would support a total ban. I have no idea, actually, because that is not the option on offer. What is on offer is a bit of a botched job, but that is what we have to discuss, and what we are working on.
The lower socio-economic groups in my constituency are in a worse situation, because more of the clubs, pubs and restaurants will stop serving food and will become private members clubs. I already know of one pub in the constituency that is looking into becoming a private members club with a very cheap membership rate so that it can be exempt from the Bill.