Health Bill [HL]

As the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, indicated, large quantities of briefing material have been circulated. I have seen it and I would be happy to make available to the noble Lord illustrations of existing displays and how they might look if gantries were used. I shall also be happy to make available to the noble Lord the 2008 LACORS consultation response, Tobacco Advertising Point of Sale Report, so that he can see what I am talking about. I appreciate that people feel strongly about this and do not agree with the proposal. I wish to be quite clear: I said that there is no intention of dictating that tobacco products have to be located in any particular place such as under the counter or overhead. The objective—which will be discussed, which will be part of the regulations and which will have a considerable lead-in time to allow retailers to achieve it—is that the advertising of tobacco products will not be visible to children and young people when they enter shops.