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Health Bill

My Lords, I put my name to this amendment because it is a completely unnecessary clause. Anyone wanting a high level of entertainment should take the opportunity to read the Hansard report of Grand Committee when we debated this amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Stoddart, said that it was amusing in parts. In my humble view it was actually hysterical. Indeed, although I was present during the Grand Committee, I read the report on the train going north to Scotland, and one of the senior conductors on the train came to check that I was all right because I was actually crying with laughter. The most important thing about this is that the provision would be completely impractical and impossible to enforce. Surely, our hard-stretched police forces have much better things to do than check whether people are smoking in vehicles. Therefore, I give this amendment my fullest possible support.