HC Deb 19 July 1995 vol 263 cc1448-9W
Mr. Hawksley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on his Department's monitoring of conditions being imposed by magistrates when issuing children's certificates. [35333]

Mr. Nicholas Baker

We hope to complete our assessment of evidence of concerns about the operation of the system of children's certificates by the early autumn.

Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what action his Department is taking to support the restrictions on smoking associated with children's certificates in pubs granted by magistrates; [35020]

(2) what guidelines his Department has issued to magistrates regarding the issuing of children's certificates in pubs and restrictions on smoking. [35065]

Mr. Baker

It would not be proper for us to seek to intervene in the exercise by the licensing justices of their statutory discretion to attach specific conditions to the grant of children's certificates, whether as to smoking or on other matters.