Health Bill [HL]

I support my noble friend on the Front Bench. I do not want to be repetitious but if you are running a specialist tobacco shop you must have a degree of certainty about the future. The one thing you cannot have when taking a new lease, extending a lease or entering into contractual arrangements with anyone else is a situation where it is entirely at the whim of the Secretary of State to amend the regulations. As it stands in the existing tobacco Bill, the matter is quite clear and such forward planning is possible. Under what is proposed here, it is not possible, and that is desperately unfair to anyone trying to run a business.