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Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from NCD Alliance Scotland to the HSCS Convener concerning the Tobacco and Vapes Bill LCM, 17 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill LCM

Correspondence May. 17 2024

Committee: Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Found: Legislative Consent Memorandum evidence session on Tuesday 21 May including witnesses representing the UK Vaping


Deposited Papers
Department for Education

May. 16 2024

Source Page: I. Draft Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health education: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, teachers. 44p. II. Review of the Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health education statutory guidance. Government consultation. 27p. III. Letter dated 16/05/2024 from Gillian Keegan MP to the Deposited papers clerk regarding the above documents for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.
Document: Draft_RSE_and_Health_Education_statutory_guidance.pdf (PDF)

Found: behaviours (e.g. the impact of alcohol on diet or health). 32 Drugs, alcohol , tobacco and vaping


Bill Documents
16 May 2024 - Bill
Bill 220 2023-24 - large print (as amended in Public Bill Committee)
Tobacco and Vapes Bill 2023-24

Found: and nicotine products 7 Sale of vaping products to under 18s 8 Purchase of vaping products


Bill Documents
16 May 2024 - Bill
Bill 220 2023-24 (as amended in Public Bill Committee)
Tobacco and Vapes Bill 2023-24

Found: and nicotine products 7 Sale of vaping products to under 18s 8 Purchase of vaping products


Written Question
Smoking: Trading Standards
Thursday 16th May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Eaton (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether additional new burdens funding will be committed to local authorities who will require additional enforcement capacity within trading standards teams to enforce the policies included in the 2023 Department For Health and Social Care policy paper Stopping the Start.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department published the command paper, Stopping the Start, in October 2023, which sets out our plans to create the first Smokefree Generation, to tackle youth vaping, and to strengthen tobacco and vape enforcement. These measures amount to the most significant public health intervention in a generation.

The policies announced in the command paper are being introduced through the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which is currently undertaking its passage through Parliament. The bill changes the age of sale of tobacco so that those born on or after 1 January 2009 will never be legally sold tobacco. It also prohibits the sale of non-nicotine vapes to under 18-year-olds, and the free distribution of vapes to under 18-year-olds, and introduces fixed penalty notices for breaches of the age of sale legislation.

To help tackle the rise in youth vaping, the bill provides powers to restrict vape flavours, point of sale displays, and packaging, and the Government has also confirmed that under environmental legislation, we will ban the sale and supply of disposable vapes. Any new burdens on local trading standards to enforce these new measures will be assessed ahead of any future regulations.

We are strengthening our enforcement activity through £30 million of new funding per year for enforcement agencies, including for trading standards, to boost the enforcement of underage tobacco and vape sales. In addition, fixed penalty notices introduced in the bill will support trading standards to take quicker action against irresponsible retailers, through using on-the-spot fines rather than going through lengthy magistrate’s court processes. Local authorities will keep the proceeds, to invest back into their enforcement activity.


Non-Departmental Publication (Policy and Engagement)
HM Prison and Probation Service

May. 15 2024

Source Page: Whatton Prison: Action Plan
Document: inspection report for Whatton Prison (PDF)

Found: A leaflet had also been developed to assist those wanting to stop vaping, which was a good initiative


Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Ministry of Justice

May. 15 2024

Source Page: Whatton Prison: Action Plan
Document: inspection report for Whatton Prison (PDF)

Found: A leaflet had also been developed to assist those wanting to stop vaping, which was a good initiative


Bill Documents
15 May 2024 - Amendment Paper
Notices of Amendments as at 15 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill 2023-24

Found: To move the following Clause— “Application of Part 1 of the Health Act 2006 to vaping (1) The


Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from the Convener to the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health & Social Care, 15 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill letter to the Scottish Government

Correspondence May. 15 2024

Committee: Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee

Found: nicotine products • Clause 44: Free distribution of nicotine products • Clause 45: Displays of vaping


Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Eighth sitting)
Committee stage: 8th sitting - Tue 14 May 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: None product business,“vaping product business” means a business involving the sale of vaping products by - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) at all to do with whether it should be okay to advertise vaping companies and vaping products on football - Speech Link
3: None . (2) For the purposes of this section, “vaping” means the use of a vape or vaping product to vaporise - Speech Link
4: Trudy Harrison (Con - Copeland) who are vaping but those who are in the vicinity of vaping products? - Speech Link