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Health Bill [HL]

I apologise for interrupting very briefly. In answer to an earlier question—I may be quoting her incorrectly and I apologise if I am, and indeed Hansard will prove otherwise—I understood the Minister to say that she and her Government were restricted in their contacts with the tobacco industry. Is it not a fact that the Department of Health states in its guidelines that they do not prohibit appropriate engagement between Government and the tobacco industry or its representatives, but suggest that any contact that could be deemed as interference in the development of tobacco control policy should not be permitted? Perhaps I could ask the Minister to look at what she did say and see how it resolves itself in relation to what I have just quoted.