I have only been in this job for two weeks, but if I had been in it for a bit longer and the Public Bill Committee was not next week, I would have nipped over to Ireland to find out. My information is that the ban has closed down the head shops. The second piece of information from Ireland is that the number of people going to hospital with the effects of psychoactive drugs has also declined. I have managed to glean those two pieces of information from Ireland. I promise that I will do more research on Ireland before the Committee next week. Even if I am not allowed to go across to Ireland—can I go?—I will certainly have a look at that. [Interruption.]
Psychoactive Substances Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Lyn Brown
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 19 October 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Psychoactive Substances Bill [Lords].
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