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Road Safety Bill [HL]

I will give my noble friend an opportunity to consider his reply before he decides to write. Would he agree that the recruitment of some 500 police in London who patrol on pedal cycles is a better way of enforcing some of these regulations? The police are on mountain bikes so they can pedal up steps such as at St Paul’s Cathedral and also go quite fast. They are much more capable or apprehending those cyclists who do not obey the regulations—and, sadly, there are quite a few. There are a lot more cyclists anyway after the sad events in July, which is good for cycling and it is very important that they obey the regulations. I would be interested to hear whether anyone on a bicycle has been stopped and convicted of some of the offences that we have been talking about.