On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Before deciding on the European Community document on tobacco products, I seek your advice.

One of the great constitutional problems with which we are faced is the acquisition of powers by stealth by European Community institutions. The House, in agreeing to the Single European Act 1985, agreed on the establishment and functioning of the internal market of the European Community. Powers were given to the European Community to decide various issues by a qualified majority. The document that we are about to decide deals with the internal market with reference to the labelling of tobacco products. It is sensible to argue that, if a tobacco product can move from one part of the internal market to another, the labelling should be the same throughout. We have given such powers to the European Community by a qualified majority vote.