Clause 8 - Fixed penalties for offence of smoking in smoke-free place
Health Bill
4:45 pm
Andrew Murrison (Shadow Minister, Health; Westbury, Conservative)
Well, it will be useful to know what model she is using. Fixed penalty notices for traffic offences are where most people come across such fines, and it is then easy to determine who the individual is for the reasons that I have described. However, in this case, that does not seem to apply in the same way. There is less of a lever on who the person is and it will be far more difficult to determine and verify that. How will the Minister get around that?
Perhaps the Minister can give us an idea of the cost of the fixed penalty notices. I am sure that she has some idea of the total cost of the system, and I suspect also that she has benchmarked the system that she will propose against those that apply in other countries. I hope so. Perhaps she can give us an idea of the cost of the infrastructure that will be necessary to introduce fixed penalty notices.