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Health Bill

My Lords, that is not the point I was making. You can make the penalties even more severe, but first you have to catch people smoking. That is the great problem—how on earth do you catch them? If you cannot catch people who are not wearing seat belts and you cannot catch people who are using mobile telephones, how will you catch them smoking a cigarette? There will not be an army of enforcers. The police say that they will not enforce the ban, so there will be inspectors, presumably in cars, patrolling the motorways, the byways and the countryside. I said in Committee that my mind boggled at the task being imposed on local authorities and the Minister thought that that was rather amusing. But it is not amusing. We have to have the answer to this question before we pass the legislation. It is no good having legislation unless it can be enforced. The Government have no plans about how to enforce a non-smoking policy on 35 million vehicles parading up and down our country every day. What is more, a lot of them are foreign. Foreign lorries coming here will not be aware of the no-smoking legislation because none of our European partners—or whatever they are—has this smoking policy. So how will they know? How is that to be enforced? It does not matter to them about penalty points. This is a complete and utter nonsense. I would like to hear how the Government will enforce this impossible ban. If the Minister can convince me, I should be very much obliged, but I feel certain that he will not be able to do so.