Extracts from committee stage (Lords) (day 2) of the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Oct 28
Thursday, 29 October 2020 07:54
Lord Young of Cookham (Con):...My Lords, Amendments 39A, 47A and
52A are in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Northover,
and the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner of Worcester. They have the
support of Cancer Research UK, the Faculty of Public Health and the
British Heart Foundation along with Action on Smoking and Health
and the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, for whose briefing I am
grateful... ...We have made great strides forward in public health,
in part because the swiftest moving...Request free trial
(Con):...My Lords, Amendments 39A, 47A
and 52A are in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady
Northover, and the noble Lord, . They have the support of Cancer Research
UK, the Faculty of Public Health and the British Heart Foundation
along with Action on Smoking and Health and the
Alcohol Health Alliance UK, for whose briefing I am grateful...
...We have made great strides forward in public health, in part
because the swiftest moving parts of our union have been able to
lead the others. England led the way on restricting tobacco displays in shops. Scotland and
Wales are ahead on policies such as minimum unit pricing. This lack
of a broad public health exclusion risks this advantage being
inverted and our pace being locked into the slowest moving of our
constituent parts. I know that the Minister will have taken note of
the concerns raised by noble Lords in this debate and that he will
endeavour to meet them, but I hope that between now and Report
there will be discussions with a view to finding acceptable
amendments that do not prejudice the key pursuit of legitimate
public health objectives...
(Lab) [V]:...Secondly, it demonstrates
the risk that this Bill poses to future public health legislation.
We know about minimum unit pricing, so we can modify the Bill to
attempt to protect it, but it is not hard to imagine that we might
in future see innovative and effective policy based on health
labelling bans or content reformulation of
alcohol, tobacco or food products. All
these aspects would likely be subject to the rigid mutual
recognition principle...
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