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There is manufacturing happening in this country, laboratory testing, quality assurance, distribution and specialist retail activity that I fear will be disproportionately harmed by this legislation. The review would find that out. Whether in e-liquids, mixing, bottling in manufacturing, device assembly, quality control, UK-specific compliance schemes and mechanisms or specialist shops, there is a whole ecosystem around this industry in the UK. It supports skilled employment across the country in production, laboratory sciences, logistics, retail management, product safety training and more. This matters because there is a concern that the Bill will reshape and perhaps damage supply chains servicing the UK market, making it more reliant on overseas production—whisper it: Chinese vapes. By the way, I use them regularly and will not have a word said against them, but even I know that they are possibly not great on the quality scale. But we are creating quality vapes at home, domestically.