New Clause 3
Road Safety Bill [Lords]
9:00 am
David Kidney (PPS (Mr Elliot Morley, Minister of State), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Stafford, Labour)
I am disappointed because, as I explained, the Metropolitan police has developed a system to deal consistently with road traffic offenders. On Tuesday afternoon, when my hon. Friend asked us to vote against several clauses in the Bill, he said that the laws were adequate and that we just needed to enforce them consistently and effectively. Does he not recognise that there is an inconsistency in his argument if he thinks that a whole strategy can rely on thinking, “One day the court might grant a discretion to allow the officer to present the case when he gets there.”?