The issue is not whether the number of betting shops is going up or down, but whether ordinary people are affected by the consequences of this product. If there are 1 million smokers now but 999,999 tomorrow, the number is going down, but still, as Philip Morris said this week, this is a disease. No matter whether the number is going down or up, the people who are affected should be our primary concern.
Neighbourhood Planning Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Graham P Jones
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13 December 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Neighbourhood Planning Bill.
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2016-17
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