Parliamentary search - Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

504 c1054-84

Session

2009-10

Department

Department of Health

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Private members' bills proceedings

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill. Explanatory Notes Bill 19-EN also published.
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Bruce George | 504 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I am truly delighted by the introduction of this Bill. However, I am a little sad, because as I said...

Mark Simmonds | 504 c1077-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, but I would go further. Not only are people under 18 unaware but ...

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Charles Walker | 504 c1077 (Link to this contribution) I am not a scientist, but one of the drawbacks of the prolonged use of sunbeds and exposure to the s...

Mark Simmonds | 504 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Cardiff, North (Julie Morgan) on her success in the ballot, on he...

Nia Griffith | 504 c1074-5 (Link to this contribution) It gives me enormous pleasure to congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, North (Julie Mo...

Bruce George | 504 c1073-4 (Link to this contribution) I tried to make an argument, unlike the hon. Gentleman, who came out with a series of nonsensical wo...

Philip Davies | 504 c1073 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is giving the most nauseating performance that I have heard in my time in t...

Bruce George | 504 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for your protection, Mr. Deputy Speaker; I manage without it outside. This is not about p...

Speaker | 504 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman. He went in for a bout of sedentary commenta...

Nia Griffith | 504 c1071 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that, just as we are shocked when we look at old TV footage and see people...

Bruce George | 504 c1067 (Link to this contribution) Soon.

Sian C James | 504 c1069-70 (Link to this contribution) Two hon. Members mentioned the Sunbed Association, with which I have been working very closely from ...

Nia Griffith | 504 c1069 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend shared my experience in discovering that people who have no idea that there is no...

Sian C James | 504 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Some 1,700 deaths a year are attributed to skin cancer, and it is calculated that 100 of t...

Caroline Flint | 504 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I commend my hon. Friend for her dogged determination to support the introduction of legislation. It...

Speaker | 504 c1067 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is a very interesting little diversion, but I think that we can now move back to the Bil...

Philip Davies | 504 c1067 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is a long-standing and distinguished parliamentarian, so I hope he does not...

Sian C James | 504 c1068-9 (Link to this contribution) I speak today as a long-term campaigner on the dangers of sunbeds. My attention was initially drawn ...

Philip Davies | 504 c1067-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am delighted by your intervention to prevent my being sid...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1084 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I want to thank everybody for their contributions. In particular, I tha...

Speaker | 504 c1080 (Link to this contribution) Order. Can I share the hon. Lady’s feelings?

Sarah Teather | 504 c1080 (Link to this contribution) I am eager to speak briefly so that my hon. Friend the Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Si...

Baroness Merron | 504 c1080-2 (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, North (Julie Morgan) on bringing the Bi...

James Duddridge | 504 c1082 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this Bill and its use of the 18 age limit. If that limit proves to be too low and it is fe...

Baroness Merron | 504 c1082-4 (Link to this contribution) All these things are, of course, a matter for Parliament. The important thing to emphasise is that t...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1084 (Link to this contribution) I want to thank everybody for their contributions—

Speaker | 504 c1084 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Lady, but she must seek the leave of the House.

Sarah Teather | 504 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief, as I do not wish to detain the House. I congratulate the hon. Member for Cardiff, ...

James Duddridge | 504 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) I am sympathetic to the argument that it is difficult for a child to make such a decision. The age c...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1060 (Link to this contribution) That is an essential point to make. It is important that the House supports the Bill, because we hav...

Caroline Flint | 504 c1060 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has done a great service to the House in securing this private Member’s Bill. I have ...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1059-60 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her supportive intervention; that would be a good situation to arrive at. ...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1058-9 (Link to this contribution) If the regulations are introduced, the required information will represent a major step in that dire...

Sandra Gidley | 504 c1059 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on introducing this Bill, and I am very pleased to support it. Does she...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. Scotland is certainly ahead of us, because it has alre...

Laura Moffatt | 504 c1058 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on introducing this fantastic Bill, which I sincerely hope becomes law...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1057-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there are many examples of young people who become addicted and feel that they cannot manage un...

Betty Williams | 504 c1058 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend moves on to another topic, I must note that she mentioned the discussions betw...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1057 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who has worked so hard on the issue, has brought a shocking incident to the attentio...

Caroline Flint | 504 c1057 (Link to this contribution) Thinking about the way in which tanning salons are promoted, they are almost pop-up businesses. Anyo...

Philip Davies | 504 c1062-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with that. I merely highlight the salami-slicer effect of legislation in this plac...

Bruce George | 504 c1067 (Link to this contribution) There are lots.

Philip Davies | 504 c1067 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will be able to catch Mr. Deputy Speaker’s eye and give us the benefit—

Philip Davies | 504 c1060-1 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Cardiff, North (Julie Morgan) on her success in the ba...

Sarah Teather | 504 c1062 (Link to this contribution) There is an analogy with smoking. No one argues for banning smoking altogether—at least, not at this...

Philip Davies | 504 c1062 (Link to this contribution) Yes. However, the hon. Lady should be aware that many hon. Members would like to ban smoking and tha...

Sarah Teather | 504 c1062 (Link to this contribution) The fact that some people want to ban smoking is not an argument for not banning smoking for childre...

Bob Spink | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady accept that although the parental permission route may have worked in several US ...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) That would not be the way forward. We have already reached the stage when we need legislation. I tha...

Philip Davies | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) This is a useful debate and I am grateful to the hon. Lady for engaging in it. Her Bill, as she made...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I am delighted to present this Bill to the ...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) There has been every opportunity to introduce voluntary measures, but clearly they have failed. As I...

Philip Davies | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. Lady given any thought to trying other measures before we go for the nuclear option of ...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that important intervention. There is ample evidence that under-18s u...

Bob Spink | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate the hon. Lady on her Bill. It is a small measure but an important one. Does sh...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. There are certainly examples of untrained people super...

Sian C James | 504 c1057 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that a recent BBC programme in the south-west took two 14-year-olds into an ...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is an important point. I thank the hon. Gentleman.

Bob Spink | 504 c1056 (Link to this contribution) The intervention from the right hon. Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) was telling. It has been...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an important point and I shall provide evidence about the number of young...

Jessica Morden | 504 c1056 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent argument on the health issues, but does she agree that there is al...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1056 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I shall now talk about the strong evidence base fo...

Betty Williams | 504 c1057 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend gave an example of a schoolgirl attending a sunbed salon. Does that indicate that the...

Julie Morgan | 504 c1056-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. That is an important consideration. The International ...

Sarah Teather | 504 c1080 (Link to this contribution) Oh, crikey. I am not sure that I really want to get on to that.

Sian C James | 504 c1071-2 (Link to this contribution) That is true. From those who have suffered with skin cancer, the message is clear and consistent: "...

Caroline Flint | 504 c1055 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the younger a person is when they start to use sunbeds, the greater the repe...

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Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill 2009-10

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