Member

As is acknowledged in Amendment 148, Clauses 94 and 95, which relate to provisions on the new tobacco and vapes registration scheme, already provide the Secretary of State with powers to make regulations that would require producers or importers to provide specified information. It may be helpful for me to say that this information could include sales data, as well as market research, from producers of any relevant products within the scope of Part 5, not just tobacco products. These clauses also enable us to make provision on when and how the information must—to use the noble Baroness’s word; I heard her challenge to me—be provided, as well as on the publication of any such information. I am not going to disappoint the noble Baroness by saying that Amendment 12 is, therefore, not needed, for the reasons I have just set out.