Health Bill

Yes, there is one in Cambridge, which Greene King owns. There is also a large Wetherspoon pub. Unfortunately, it took the Regal cinema in Cambridge and turned the premises into the largest bar area in the country. As it is Wetherspoon, that is non-smoking. I think that I can find the hon. Gentleman at least three such pubs. To correct the hon. Gentleman—having done so, I must move on to what is in the Bill rather than what might have been in Conservative legislation—I did not say that the market would deliver these things. I said that there would be a self-regulatory solution. I appreciate that there are market pressures, but such pressures can take a long time to have an impact. We were aiming for a self-regulatory solution. He should accept—although Ministers appear not to have accepted it—that, throughout the hospitality industry and in the British Beer and Pub Association and elsewhere, substantial measures have already been put in place to try to deliver smoke-free solutions for customers. The way in which the Government propose to interfere with what might otherwise have been achieved on that basis is excessive. I am a shadow Secretary of State for Health, and in my view there is no acceptable outcome other than that we deliver much reduced smoking and smoke-free environments for everybody who wants them. There should be smoke-free environments for children, but there is no reference in the Bill to children. There is nothing that says that, wherever children are present, second-hand smoke should not be permitted, although the evidence of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health points to the impact of second-hand smoke on respiratory disease, on asthma and on sudden infant death syndrome.