Health Bill [HL]

Is it not a fact that under the 2004 point-of-sale regulations, there was a definition of a point of sale and, furthermore, that no regulations have ever been tabled by the Government in relation to that? In 2006, the trading standards organisations, in conjunction with the industry, carried out a survey and found very good compliance. An invitation was made to the Department of Health to make suggestions for any amendments that should be made, and none was forthcoming. The noble Baroness says that the tobacco industry is very prone to thinking up ingenious new ideas, and one of them will be to do with price lists. It is not good enough that, particularly when prices change at every Budget—inevitably so, and I suspect that they will continue to do so—price lists will now be viewed as point-of-sale material. The Government will presumably define type size and maybe even which type should be used. The consumer—who is, after all, the key person—simply wants to know what the price is.