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Road Safety Bill [HL]

My noble friend is trying to lead me into the wilderness rather than along the path of grace by introducing that subject. Suffice it to say that he knows the arguments about personal identification on identity cards, which will be widely debated in the other place and in this House when the issue comes before us. We are talking about breath for the obvious reason that the issue is about alcohol. We have a secure test. There is the problem of whether people can cheat by having the wrong person supplying the sample, and that is the part of the technology on which we seek to make progress. I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Hanham, that I do not want to have it both ways with regard to the legislation. If the date 2010 is in the Bill—I want it retained—that is the date on which the experimental period will end. After such an experiment over a number of years, even in such a difficult area, I should have thought that the House would expect the Government to decide whether the scheme was viable. The provision in the Bill will guarantee that.