Health Bill [Lords]

I am about to finish, so I am not going to give way. In particular, we should see the impact of measures that came into effect only on 1 April under the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, which specifically introduced the concept of negative licensing for retailers who are found to be selling tobacco to under-18s. That provision has been in force for two months and there has not been a single prosecution under it, because it requires three offences to take place before a prosecution can be brought. Thus, it seems completely nonsensical to introduce additional legislation precisely to target that user group—the under-18s—and stop them from smoking when there is legislation on the book that will have an opportunity to be much more effective in directly addressing the Government's concerns. We should see how that works before introducing this unnecessary and potentially very damaging measure.