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Political Parties and Elections Bill

I am not for a minute suggesting that some of the necessary public health information, for example, on the smoking ban, should not be advertised. What I am suggesting is that the total budget for it is excessive, having grown enormously during an era of spin in the past 12 years, and could be reduced significantly. There is clear evidence that some of that advertising is not about public health information, for example, but promoting the policies of the Government in a partisan way. I quoted one example from the previous Conservative Government and the introduction of the Australian points system as an example of the Labour Government advertising improperly for party political purposes.