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Road Safety Bill [Lords]

I can perhaps cheer and disappoint my hon. Friend at the same time. We do not think that such legislation is needed, because such things will happen anyway, but when my hon. Friend the Minister of State explains the issue in Committee, he will amplify that and—who knows?—he might even deal with it extensively when he replies to the debate. Other measures will introduce advanced learning packages and ensure that we improve the standards of tuition and instruction. There are proposals on the registration of instructors and others that will allow the publication of their performance, and other measures that, I hope, will raise people’s general education and awareness of good driving on the roads. I wish to draw the House’s attention to the proposal on tiredness, which was contained in the previous Road Safety Bill. We intend to introduce picnic areas—or aires, as they are called in France—where people can stop, so that they need not go to a service station or McDonald’s, or anything like that, to sit and relax, and the first one will be on the M5 in Somerset. Other measures relate to radioactive material, London private hire vehicles and the certification of vehicles.