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Lord Cullen of Ashbourne: My Lords, I do not think that I should give a 'plug to the pornographic magazines in that way.
Lord Nugent of Guildford: My Lords, is my noble friend aware that advertisements by tobacco companies in pornographic magazines would be likely to cancel out the enhancement of their image which these companies derive from their prestige promotion of grand opera and other valuable activities? In his coming review would my noble friend consider requiring a double health warning: Cigarettes can seriously damage your physical health and pornography your mental health "?
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Lord Cullen of Ashbourne: My Lords, that is a very interesting suggestion.
A noble Lord: My Lords, how is the noble Lord to tell?
Lord Cullen of Ashbourne: My Lords, I will try to get on. It might also be wondered whether the health warning on advertisements in pornographic magazines should be removed.
Viscount St. Davids: My Lords, while the noble Lord will no doubt deprecate the fact that bad pur- poses are supported by the tobacco manufacturers, will he not also agree that it is very sad that good purposes also have to be supported by the tobacco manufacturers? Nevertheless would he also agree that what is really important is the final part of the noble Lord's Question, which implies that tobacco advertising ought to be decreased to the point where finally it stops?
Lord Cullen of Ashbourne: My Lords, I know there are many people who take the same view that the noble Lord takes. My right honourable friend made a voluntary agreement last November. He did not manage to achieve all that he wanted to achieve, which is why the agreement is only going to last until July 1982. There are perpetual talks going on with the industry. At the moment negotiations are going on about sports sponsorship, the details of which are being kept confidential in the meantime.
Lord Paget of Northampton: My Lords, sharing the noble Lord's views of this subject and his dislike of nicotine- and other dope-peddlers, does he not think that if there is to be advertising at all, pornographic magazines form a far more suitable medium than sports sponsorship?
Lord Cullen of Ashbourne: My Lords, I do not think I really see the point of that question. On the other hand, I should like to say that the Question seems to be directed to whether tobacco companies should advertise in these magazines, and I should have thought that that also applied to other companies, such as car manufacturers, manufacturers of hi-fi equipment, and
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Viscount Barrington: My Lords, is the noble Lord, the Minister in a position to assure the House that
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The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord Belstead: My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now again resolve itself into Committee
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Moved, that the House do now into Committee.--(Lord Belstead). On Question, Motion agreed to. House in Committee accordingly.
[The Lord ABERDARE in the Chair.]
Lord Bethell moved Amendment No. 111: After Clause 9, insert the following new clause:
(“Right to registration by virtue of United Kingdom nationality for European Community purposes
A person who is a United Kingdom national European Community purposes by virtue of the operation of Article 227(4) of the Treaty of Rome or who has a right of abode in a British Dependent Territory to which the provisions of Article 227(4) of the Treaty of Rome apply shall be entitled, notwithstanding the provisions of Part II of this Act, on application, to be registered as a British citizen.”).
The noble Lord said: I beg leave to move this Amend- ment standing in the names of my noble friends and the noble Lord, Lord Hughes. The effect of the amendment, as I am sure most of your Lordships will appreciate, would be to give to the people of Gibraltar the right, if they so wished, to apply for British citizen- ship under the new Act and to have it granted as of right and not as a privilege. It is the belief of those of us who have put forward this amendment that this is a correct procedure in equity and in the law of Europe, as I shall endeavour to demonstrate in these few opening remarks.
I think it would be appropriate for me to say a few words about the history of the problem and the situation generated by it. The territory of Gibraltar became British nearly three hundred years ago, in the year 1704, and the Britishness of Gibraltar was confirmed by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, since when there has been an unbroken British sovereignty on the Rock and its hinterland. Indeed Gibraltar has been British longer than it ever was Spanish and, while it is true that Spain has maintained a claim to Gibraltar ever since the treaty, it is also true that Spain has not possessed, by
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