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Health Bill

My Lords, I do not want to delay the House too long, but I want to point out that, without this clause, we again have a problem for the National Assembly for Wales. The clause states that regulations may be made for the descriptions of vehicles, circumstances and so forth. Some of the things that have been said do not seem to be included in the Bill as it stands, but this clause allows regulations to be made. The National Assembly for Wales is very clear that it wants to have the ability to make such regulations because some vehicles are used as public transport in Wales. The concern is that they would then be outside the scope of the Bill should the clause be removed. I do not want to revisit all the other arguments but I will simply point out that the reason why there is no specific research on vehicles and vehicles only relates to the complexity of having a control group if you are going to look at the full range of diseases. But with asthma, which is a disease that is triggered by exposure to the toxic substance, there is good evidence from patients for whom getting into smoky vehicles—we have already heard about it tonight—triggers an asthma attack. We should not forget that every year there are people who actually die from their asthma attacks.