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Road Safety Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 35:"Page 9, leave out line 40." The noble Baroness said: Amendments Nos. 35 and 36 are put forward to try to tackle the scourge of legislation by statutory instrument, although we welcome the Government’s amendment to that effect that we have already dealt with. I ask the Minister to give us a clear explanation of how much deposit we are talking about. I touched on the issue on the previous amendment. There is no indication in the   legislation whether that deposit is meant to be a proportion of any fixed penalty, the equivalent of a fixed penalty, a proportion of the maximum penalty that can be charged, or the maximum penalty itself. Will the Minister give us any indication about that? If we are not careful this will be another area where we will spend an enormous amount of time quizzing the Government about whether they are raising revenue for other purposes or whether there is a proper rationale to the decisions being made. That brings us back to the question I asked at the end of the previous amendment about where was the legislation that enabled enforcement officers, whether police or others, to take money from motorists. I beg to move.