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The other point that the Minister made was that schools themselves as areas would be designated vape free. Have there been any discussions with teachers’ organisations or teachers’ unions? The noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, talked about the child or young person who was desperate for a vape. You can imagine after a particularly challenging lesson a teacher desperately needing to turn to an e-cigarette or a vape. What options are available for teachers in those settings, if they really want to turn to a vape? I hope the Minister will not say that they could turn to a bottle of whisky, or anything like that. Clearly, there is, or could be, an issue here. The Minister might say that I am finding a problem where there is none, but you can foresee that situation where an adult teacher desperately wants to turn to something as a sort of a calming measure but is unable to do so because it is a non-vaping environment. It could be simply that they have to walk five minutes down the road or something. I should be interested in what the department’s current thinking is.