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Food Products (Marketing to Children) Bill

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

474 c1584-652 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Food Products (Marketing to Children) Bill.
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Nigel Evans | 474 c1607 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and I therefore wonder whether products such as Coca-Cola and McDonald's would even be allowed ...

Philip Davies | 474 c1607-8 (Link to this contribution) May I bring my hon. Friend back to the point raised earlier about the promotion of particular brands...

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Nigel Evans | 474 c1605 (Link to this contribution) I shall do so, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I take every opportunity to plug the shop. I guess I could,...

Philip Davies | 474 c1605-6 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend the Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale), my hon. Friend the...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1605 (Link to this contribution) No, that is too simplistic. Some people are allergic to nuts, for instance, and if a product contain...

Speaker | 474 c1605 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that that has been quite sufficient. Will the hon. Gentleman please confine his comme...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1606-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall not name and shame anybody. When the doctor discussed with the patient's eating habits with ...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1607 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says that they ““might”” become illegal; under clause 1, they would. It would be ille...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1606 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, with his expertise in the supermarket field, knows exactly what might happen. That i...

Philip Davies | 474 c1609 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very powerful point. As an esteemed member of the Select Committee, he wi...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1609 (Link to this contribution) We had to wait two hours before the mention of the dreaded EU on a Friday morning; we apologise for ...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1609 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend should be aware that the Father Christmas that we know so well is actually an inventi...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1608 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept that, and that is the direction in which we need to go. We need to work with the indu...

Simon Burns | 474 c1608 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to my hon. Friend's speech with great interest. Does he also accept that in recent ye...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1609 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept that. People are becoming obese for reasons other than sitting watching television ad...

Philip Davies | 474 c1608 (Link to this contribution) Does this not get to the nub of the issue? In the past 20 years or so, at the same time as the amoun...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1608 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that Coca-Cola would fall into that category, because it produces not only the drink Coca-...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1616 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way again. He is being extremely patient with me. He says we canno...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1616-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a very intelligent gentleman so I am sure that he has made an important point, and...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1614 (Link to this contribution) As part of its review, will Ofcom examine not only the efficacy of the new changes that have been in...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1613-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, but as the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South has rightly pointed out, a numb...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1614 (Link to this contribution) I have no doubt that Ofcom will consider that aspect, because it acknowledged in its own recommendat...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1614 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may be right, but having seen figures showing the significant decline in broadcas...

Philip Davies | 474 c1614 (Link to this contribution) Might not many broadcasters be fearful about where banning advertising when a problem is identified ...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1614-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to be slightly more generous to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South than others have been—pa...

Eric Joyce | 474 c1614 (Link to this contribution) I am touched by the slavish defence of the advertising industry that was presented from the Tory Fro...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1613 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making characteristically astute observations on the Bill, and I hope that they wi...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1612 (Link to this contribution) Quebec's ban on advertising was introduced in 1980, which is 28 years ago. Does the hon. Gentleman n...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1612-3 (Link to this contribution) Of course I do. That I why I used that particular example—although the point would apply equally to ...

Speaker | 474 c1610 (Link to this contribution) Order. I want to make two points. First, please can we follow the rules of debate in this House if p...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1610 (Link to this contribution) In that case, the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South would not even need a separate piece of legislati...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1612 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman rightly speaks with great passion, as this is an important issue. My concern is s...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1611-2 (Link to this contribution) We must be clear about one thing: everyone is agreed that extending the watershed would work. The de...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c1630 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that the main responsibility for what children eat lies with their par...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1630 (Link to this contribution) That is an aspect of the Bill that I have not yet noted, but I am sure that my hon. Friend is absolu...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1630 (Link to this contribution) I want to drag my hon. Friend back to when he was talking about the print media. We are talking abou...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1630 (Link to this contribution) So it all comes back to the basic principles, which are moderation in all things and a healthy mind ...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c1631 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the same principle that applies to the spending of pocket money and w...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1630-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am not sure whether she was here during some of the earlier en...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1628 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend will remember, the leader of our great party once attacked one well-known shopping...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1628 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Another example that springs to mind in the light of today's opi...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1629 (Link to this contribution) Buoyed up by the Jaffa Cakes I have eaten, I have thought of another instance of people or organisat...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1628 (Link to this contribution) As always, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. There is the related issue of school lunchbox inspec...

Philip Davies | 474 c1628 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions chocolate marketing. Does he agree that when Cadbury's sponsored ““Coronatio...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1630 (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

Philip Davies | 474 c1629 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my surprise that when the promoter of this Bill was a small business Minis...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1631-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The more we undermine responsible parenthood by measures such as...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1632 (Link to this contribution) We are again returning to the ridiculous nature of this Bill. A ban on the advertising, and therefor...

Philip Davies | 474 c1633 (Link to this contribution) When he was a Minister in the Department of Trade and Industry, the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1632 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend tempts me to mention home-made ginger beer, on which many of us were brought up. Thos...

Baroness Hodge of Barking | 474 c1633-4 (Link to this contribution) What is good about Friday debates is that people engage with the issues in a much more open and less...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1633 (Link to this contribution) I fear so. The facts speak for themselves. Paragraph 1.1 of the Better Regulation Commission's repor...

Baroness Hodge of Barking | 474 c1634-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman wants Rome built in a day. Let us consider the statistics. Five years ago, I thin...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1634 (Link to this contribution) The Minister cannot be allowed to get away with skimming over things that easily. Will she confirm t...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1635 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Minister. We are all concerned about the disappearance of children's programming fr...

Speaker | 474 c1622 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind hon. Members of the Bill's short title: to make"““provision about the advertising, m...

Philip Davies | 474 c1621 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Clause 2 refers to the banning of"““any brand name which is a...

Eric Joyce | 474 c1620 (Link to this contribution) When I referred to vested interests, I was referring to the food processing companies. I agree that ...

Speaker | 474 c1620 (Link to this contribution) Order. I really do feel now that the remarks must be related to the Bill under discussion. We are go...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1620 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, by banning advertising, the Bill would take £250 million away from the commercial br...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1620 (Link to this contribution) I am not following the hon. Gentleman's argument. How can Conservative Members argue simultaneously ...

Eric Joyce | 474 c1619 (Link to this contribution) In that case, will the hon. Gentleman explain why Nickelodeon.com and Nickelodeon TV are taking mark...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1619 (Link to this contribution) They are using American imports. The hon. Gentleman, who has made comments about other people and ve...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1619 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman not see that the solution to the problem of encouraging domestic production l...

Simon Burns | 474 c1618 (Link to this contribution) On fewer fat Finns, might the problem relate not to food but to the alcohol problems that the Finns ...

Speaker | 474 c1618 (Link to this contribution) Order. I want to protect the hon. Gentleman from being led astray by his hon. Friend. He is well awa...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1617-8 (Link to this contribution) Following the speech of my mentor, I thought I would take this opportunity to speak. As the Minister...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1619-20 (Link to this contribution) We are back in the land of unintended consequences. As a result of the abolition of the 10p tax rate...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1627 (Link to this contribution) First, I am not sure of the facts about the amount of breakfast cereals consumed in emerging economi...

Philip Davies | 474 c1627 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right about that. It also depends on the maturity of the market, and th...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1626-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Indeed, there is substantial econometric literature that disproves the ...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1627 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is putting on a characteristically fascinating exhibition, but if he really suppo...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1627-8 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are not talking only about advertising on televi...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1626 (Link to this contribution) Everybody knows that people should eat five pieces of fruit a day, and there is a lot of advertising...

Philip Davies | 474 c1626 (Link to this contribution) One of the supporters of the Bill said earlier that if advertising made no difference, companies wou...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1626 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that that is the avowed purpose, although I have some disappointing news on that subject f...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1624 (Link to this contribution) I am all in favour of joining in celebrations with the hon. Gentleman, and perhaps the information p...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1624 (Link to this contribution) All the talk of food made me hungry, so I nipped out and had a Jaffa Cake. I suspect that Jaffa Cake...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1624 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The importance of a balanced diet and not consuming more in calories than t...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1624 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my hon. Friend would like to reflect on some other examples, such as Gary Lineker's promotio...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1625 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes his point extremely well without any need for me to try to trump it in response...

Philip Davies | 474 c1625 (Link to this contribution) As usual, my hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Does he also agree that the hon. Member for Edinbur...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1625-6 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The Bill has a number of shortcomings, including the absence of a proper cost-benefit an...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1622-3 (Link to this contribution) That is correct, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have to say that M and S was the culprit in my downfall as ...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1623-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Wantage (Mr. Vaizey), who made a witty, hig...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1624 (Link to this contribution) I want to spare the hon. Gentleman from citing an out-of-date report. Yesterday in Scotland, evidenc...

Jim Devine | 474 c1585 (Link to this contribution) Central to my hon. Friend's Bill is reinforcing assistance to parents. I have had a lot of correspon...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1585 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing that out, and for his continuous support for the Bill. ...

Simon Burns | 474 c1585 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that this is a very difficult subject to get right? There are a numbe...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1585 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with the hon. Member, and I shall tell him what I think can be done. We can dimini...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1585 (Link to this contribution) That is a telling point from the premier organisation representing consumers—something it has done f...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1584 (Link to this contribution) It is the case because having listened to people, I have introduced a Bill that is a compromise. I a...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1585 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware of the survey included in the Which? submission on the Bill, in which 80...

Julie Kirkbride | 474 c1585 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for being generous in allowing interventions. I wanted to stop h...

Philip Davies | 474 c1584 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that everyone accepts that the Bill is needed to tackle childhood obesity, y...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1584 (Link to this contribution) Obesity, especially among children, is a threat to their health, to the NHS and to the economy. The ...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1587 (Link to this contribution) The term used in the Bill, ““less healthy food””, is fairly subjective, but I assume that it would e...

Mike Weir | 474 c1586 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that pestering is not just for specific products, but for such things...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1585-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is one of the luckiest parents in the country. She must be one of the few whose childr...

Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 474 c1586 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for being so generous in giving way. Before I came to the House I did work in...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1586 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Member for that important point, which gets to the heart of the Bill. It is about...

Jim Dowd | 474 c1586 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on his success in the ballot and on introducing the Bill. In response ...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1586 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks with great authority and reflects what food nutritionists, as well as Nick Nai...

Kerry McCarthy | 474 c1605 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman does the weekly shop for his family, but nowadays a lot of ...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1604-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Nigel Griffiths) on being successful in the pri...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1604 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we should do that. As I suggested earlier, we should also make available more facilities in the...

Philip Davies | 474 c1603 (Link to this contribution) Is it not striking that, although we know the consequences on commercial broadcasters of such a ban ...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1603 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I would agree that it is necessarily very damaging. I would have to confess my al...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1603 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks about advertising and markets. Does he accept that for a product such as cannab...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1604 (Link to this contribution) I gave that example to produce a reductio ad absurdum in respect of the Bill's arguments. As my hon....

John Whittingdale | 474 c1604 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is showing alarming interventionist tendencies for a Tory! I have to say that that is...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1604 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that what probably has a much greater impact on obesity is how much televi...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1603-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and I am sure that he will want to expand on that point in his own speech. ...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1602 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, wearing his Select Committee hat, knows a lot about the advertising industry and the...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1602 (Link to this contribution) Again, gambling is a different issue, but I wish to address the issue of the 9 pm watershed. The Bil...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1602-3 (Link to this contribution) The question is a little premature. Gambling advertising has only just been permitted on television,...

Kerry McCarthy | 474 c1601 (Link to this contribution) What is the hon. Gentleman's opinion on the advertising of alcohol and cigarette products? It is gen...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1601 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that there is no evidence that a total ban on advertising alcohol has any ef...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1601 (Link to this contribution) There are differences, but the hon. Lady raises an interesting point. It is worth considering whethe...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1602 (Link to this contribution) What is the hon. Gentleman's opinion on a 9 pm watershed for gambling advertising?

John Whittingdale | 474 c1601 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a strong point. As I had the honour of representing the Opposition during the p...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1601 (Link to this contribution) If I thought that bringing in a pre-9 pm ban would remove the problem of obesity and save the nation...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1600-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a strong case, and I am touched by his concern for my former employers and ...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1600 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman demonstrates his usual foresight by anticipating the exact point that I was about...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1600 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, but so far he has not told us of his estimate of the Bi...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1599-600 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. My children grew up eating cereals—I imagine that most parents in ...

Philip Davies | 474 c1599 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a typically powerful case. Other products covered by the restrictions inclu...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1599 (Link to this contribution) I may have to make an exception for my hon. Friend, who is clearly a Marmite addict, but most people...

Michael Fabricant | 474 c1599 (Link to this contribution) Well I would—I love the stuff.

Jim Dowd | 474 c1597 (Link to this contribution) We should make it plain that the Food and Drink Federation is not an impartial academic centre, but ...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1596-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Nigel Griffiths) on his good fortune in being a...

Kerry McCarthy | 474 c1594-6 (Link to this contribution) As I suggested in an intervention, I want to focus on the impact that the changing nature of the foo...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1594 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that clarification. My closing point is about the seriousnes...

Kerry McCarthy | 474 c1596 (Link to this contribution) If that is the case, why do food manufacturers spend so much money on advertising their products? A...

Philip Davies | 474 c1596 (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. Lady's argument with interest. The problem with the Bill is that Brian Young...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1593-4 (Link to this contribution) No, not just yet. I have a point to make. I will not be distracted by debate on the Olympics. My thi...

Jim Dowd | 474 c1593 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Jim Dowd | 474 c1594 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned McDonald's. The hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) has vacated hi...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1592 (Link to this contribution) No. We have to ask ourselves who is standing up against such weighty groups—apart from the hon. Mem...

Jim Dowd | 474 c1592 (Link to this contribution) On that point, does my hon. Friend agree that food processors, and food processors alone, are resist...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1592 (Link to this contribution) Can I ask a specific question on that point?

Philip Davies | 474 c1593 (Link to this contribution) You haven't yet heard what the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) has to say.

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1592 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend could not be more right, and could not speak on a subject more dear to my heart. Earl...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1592 (Link to this contribution) I had not intended to speak on the Bill, not least because I am keen to see the next Bill on energy ...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1593 (Link to this contribution) I will not be distracted by that point.

Martin Horwood | 474 c1593 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that if my hon. Friend the Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) has objections to the Bill, they w...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1593 (Link to this contribution) What does the hon. Gentleman think about the decision to allow McDonald's—an American company—to be ...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1590-1 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress. The hon. Member will have plenty of time to respond to my points l...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1591 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that as several of those top 20 programmes were shown after the 9 pm wat...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1591 (Link to this contribution) I do not dispute that. I am saying that existing regulations do not cover the top 20, most of which ...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1591 (Link to this contribution) Surely, then, the logic of the hon. Gentleman's position should be that he favours a complete ban on...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1591 (Link to this contribution) I do not favour a complete ban. I believe that adults have the right to exercise a choice and that c...

Betty Williams | 474 c1591 (Link to this contribution) Those of us who have followed debates on this matter in the Chamber for a long time will have notice...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1591-2 (Link to this contribution) I do. In short, they have been right and we have been wrong. It is time that the House caught up by ...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1589 (Link to this contribution) The BBC channels CBeebies and CBBC dominate younger children's programming. They have no advertising...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1590 (Link to this contribution) I will, of course, give way to the hon. Lady, because she will want to explain her statement that th...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1590 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member makes a very valuable point. However, let me tell her that if such well-funded indus...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1589 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member is advocating putting the health of American television before the health of British...

Julie Kirkbride | 474 c1589 (Link to this contribution) It is fairly obvious that not everyone agrees with the hon. Gentleman's Bill—there is a fair amount ...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1589 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member is right. With the exception of one or two hon. Members, the whole House knows that ...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1589 (Link to this contribution) Since the advertising restrictions were introduced, children's television commissioning has fallen o...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1590 (Link to this contribution) The restrictions have been in place not for one year, but for less than 10 months. However, if it is...

Kerry McCarthy | 474 c1588 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has focused on the impact on obesity in children of consuming junk food and the influ...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1588 (Link to this contribution) That is a critical point. That is the reason why local schools in my constituency—I am sure that thi...

Brian Iddon | 474 c1588 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend has mentioned the role of education. Will he join me in congratulating...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1588 (Link to this contribution) I certainly congratulate Bolton council. In the manifestos for the next election, I want to see all ...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1587 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to go down in history—I am sure that this is true of the hon. Gentleman, too—as the pe...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1587 (Link to this contribution) We should be debating the issue of being ““taken in quantity””. If the Bill were to become law, unhe...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1587-8 (Link to this contribution) The definition would not include those foods. I urge the hon. Member to study what the FSA has actua...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1589 (Link to this contribution) When the hon. Member previously intervened, I asked him whether he would put the health of the adver...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1589 (Link to this contribution) Having killed off Ronald McDonald, the hon. Gentleman is moving on to kill off children's television...

Baroness Hodge of Barking | 474 c1635 (Link to this contribution) We must wait to see what Ofcom recommends, as it is the body to which we have given responsibility f...

Philip Davies | 474 c1635 (Link to this contribution) Is not what the Minister has just said exactly the point? Ofcom is looking into the issue, and its r...

Baroness Hodge of Barking | 474 c1635-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree; I have been given some words to say on where we are in the timetable, and I hope that they ...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1636 (Link to this contribution) The sponsors of the Bill and the many hon. Members who have signed early-day motion 445 will be reas...

Baroness Hodge of Barking | 474 c1636-7 (Link to this contribution) I hope that everybody submits appropriate evidence. During the debate, it has become clear that the ...

Baroness Hodge of Barking | 474 c1637-8 (Link to this contribution) That is a difficult one. That is precisely the type of issue that one should consider so that we can...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1637 (Link to this contribution) Speaking of unintended consequences, there is a campaign in the House for free bus travel to school ...

Baroness Hodge of Barking | 474 c1638-9 (Link to this contribution) I share that view, although the hon. Member for Christchurch, who is sitting behind the hon. Gentlem...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1638 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has just stated that we eat out more often, which is absolutely right. When we are prep...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1639 (Link to this contribution) I had rather hoped that the Minister would move on to the important non-broadcast points raised by t...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1648 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not think it a bit ironic that the campaign behind this Bill is being promoted b...

Philip Davies | 474 c1648 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend; she is absolutely right. It is far better to educate people—fo...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1648 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman arguing that advertising has played no role in increasing the size of the mark...

Philip Davies | 474 c1649 (Link to this contribution) To be honest, I am not sure whether it has or not, but the point that I would make to the hon. Gentl...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1650 (Link to this contribution) It seems to me that another of the Bill's aims is to stop youngsters pestering their parents. Howeve...

Philip Davies | 474 c1649 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an interesting point about what motivates people. To be perfectly honest, I th...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c1647-8 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend join me in acknowledging the very good work being done at school meal times in e...

Philip Davies | 474 c1650 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is the logic of this argument. I am sure that we have all b...

Philip Davies | 474 c1644-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. She is a great champion of people taking individual responsibility for thei...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c1644 (Link to this contribution) Does not that exchange highlight the difference between information and regulation? Provided that pe...

Hugh Bayley | 474 c1644 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to Members for coming into the debate so late, but I have been at a meeting of the NATO ...

Philip Davies | 474 c1646-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. Like her, I believe passionately that parents have responsibility ...

Philip Davies | 474 c1645-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very interesting point. If I did not know better, I might have thought that ...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1647 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and does he agree that if this line of thinking continues we wil...

Philip Davies | 474 c1647 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and it does not take a great leap of faith to see the direction in which Bi...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1643 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right to remind hon. Members of the valuable role that he has played on our ...

Philip Davies | 474 c1642-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entirely right: he is far more knowledgeable about regulating than I am, becau...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1643 (Link to this contribution) Even the restrictions that have already been introduced have produced unforeseen consequences. For e...

Philip Davies | 474 c1643 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Equally, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for his work on the Committee, which he chairs with...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1642 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of prolonging the unfortunate attempt to talk out the important measure, I want, as secr...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1642 (Link to this contribution) I speak with quite a lot more experience than the hon. Member on this issue and can tell him that I ...

Philip Davies | 474 c1642 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said at the start that he had come in for the second Bill on the Order Paper. His...

Philip Davies | 474 c1643 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and he made a powerful speech about how the Bill is so badly flawed. In his...

Martin Horwood | 474 c1643 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me, but I thought that the hon. Gentleman argued earlier that the Bill would have no impact ...

Philip Davies | 474 c1640-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I hope that we are conscious that the public have a low regard for politici...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1640 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that in this case and in others, there is an element of scapegoating? The...

Philip Davies | 474 c1640 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entirely right. The Bill opens up a huge array of issues, not just to do with ...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1640 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman quite rightly repeats a point that a number of us made about the need to have res...

Philip Davies | 474 c1640 (Link to this contribution) I have followed the debate with great interest, and I was particularly interested to hear what the M...

Baroness Hodge of Barking | 474 c1639 (Link to this contribution) I concur with the hon. Gentleman's remarks; we believe that, for the non-broadcasting media, a self-...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c1641 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that many large corporations, which manufacture what is encompassed by the umbr...

Philip Davies | 474 c1641 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Others who spoke in the debate made it clear that some organisations, such ...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c1641 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that opinion about whether a food or drink is healthy or unhealthy is high...

Philip Davies | 474 c1641 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Foods that were once deemed unhealthy are later considered good for you bef...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1652 (Link to this contribution) Let us suppose that the food police decided that a breakfast cereal was unhealthy, and a supermarket...

Philip Davies | 474 c1652 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made an important point. As he says, clause 2(6) gives the Secretary of State pow...

Philip Davies | 474 c1652 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. Any Government who tried to restrict the range of offers available...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1650 (Link to this contribution) While my hon. Friend is on the subject of supermarkets, may I ask him whether he thinks the Bill wou...

Philip Davies | 474 c1651 (Link to this contribution) I cannot share my hon. Friend's enthusiasm for Marmite, but I share her concern that it will fall fo...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1651 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that packaging is covered by the Bill. I am looking at some Kellogg's Frost...

Philip Davies | 474 c1651-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I am not entirely sure that the Bill's supporters have thought through the ...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1652 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern about the wide drafting of clause 2(6), which gives the Secreta...

Philip Davies | 474 c1650 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise that, and I return to clause 2(3), which is over-zealous to say the...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1650 (Link to this contribution) The other unintended consequence would be to deny youngsters and their parents information on the pr...

Philip Davies | 474 c1651 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right, and he picks up on the point made by the hon. Member for City of Y...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c1651 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for drawing my attention to clause 2(3). I hope that it does not mean that Ma...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1631 (Link to this contribution) We know what the consequences of that would be. The law of unintended consequences would apply, and ...

Philip Davies | 474 c1631 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is touching on an important point. When the initial restrictions were placed on adver...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1629-30 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly hard to find any consistency between what the hon. Gentleman said was his role then ...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1620-1 (Link to this contribution) The record will show that the hon. Gentleman referred to me as the vested interest of the advertisin...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1618-9 (Link to this contribution) I think that there is an alcohol advertising ban in Sweden, but I hear what you say, Madam Deputy Sp...

John Whittingdale | 474 c1597-9 (Link to this contribution) All I would say to the hon. Gentleman is that I have some reservations about traffic lights. They ar...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c1646 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. A lot of the pestering comes from children themselves. I can well recall co...

Philip Davies | 474 c1643-4 (Link to this contribution) My point is that it would not make any difference to overall market size, but it could make a big di...

Nigel Evans | 474 c1610 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sure that none of us would wish to see Father Christmas killed...

Lord Foster of Bath | 474 c1610-1 (Link to this contribution) I should like to begin more or less where the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) ended his sp...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1629 (Link to this contribution) Provided that they are English strawberries and it is British cream, I am sure that that would be al...

Julie Kirkbride | 474 c1590 (Link to this contribution) I will set that one aside; the hon. Gentleman can explain it later. The ban on advertising fatty pr...

Angela Watkinson | 474 c1649 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that a great deal of psychology goes into the creation of the ambience of ...

Philip Davies | 474 c1644 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should not apologise for coming in late. His contribution is more than welcome at...

Christopher Chope | 474 c1645 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend had the benefit of attending yesterday's Select Committee interview with Ofcom. Is he...

Philip Davies | 474 c1606 (Link to this contribution) It was Peter Hain.

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 474 c1620 (Link to this contribution) No one, not least the Liberal Democrat Front-Bench spokesman, the hon. Member for Bath, has ever bee...

Nigel Griffiths | 474 c1586-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That report was critical in ensuring that the Government's views...

Philip Davies | 474 c1648 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. It strikes me as utterly bizarre that an organisation that supposedly s...

Subjects

Children Advertising Broadcasting programmes Diabetes Food Labelling Heart diseases Nutrition Marketing Mental health Obesity Sports Television

Legislation

Food Products (Marketing to Children) Bill 2007-08

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