I am pleased to receive support from both sides of the Committee. Many local authorities and disabled groups up and down the country are pleased that the Bill is making progress; that must surely be good.

My hon. Friend the Minister adequately explained the cost to local authorities, but it is estimated that  some £46 million of fraud could be saved if the loopholes were closed. On public perception, I must say that public perception is everything. The blue badge scheme is valuable and valued by disabled people up and down the country, but there is a perception that there is a great deal of fraud and misuse of badges. If we can change that perception, that can only be a good thing.

As to whether there is any impact on resources, I believe the relevant figure is £2,000 a year for military-issued badges; otherwise, there will purely be savings for local authorities. On design consistency, it is clearly important that if someone has a badge issued in one local authority and they use it in a different local authority, they are not accused of it being a copy or a fake. The Bill does not seek to change design consistency; it seeks only to disguise some of the secret and high-tech features contained in the badges by not publishing details of them in regulations.

I thank everyone for their attendance and for their valuable contributions, including Members on both sides of the Committee and the Minister. I thank you, Mr Gray, as well as the Officers, the Hansard reporters and everyone else involved in getting the Bill to this stage.