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Finance Bill

No, I want to finish my point. There is an important point to make about cots. No matter where people get their cot from, they should never put a baby to sleep on another child's mattress, because they do not know what has happened to that mattress—whether it has been vomited or urinated on, for instance. We talk about putting babies ““back to sleep””, and about cutting the rate of sudden infant death—which predominantly happens in lower income households. There are issues here to do with families living in overcrowded housing and babies sharing beds with their parents, yet the hon. Lady is saying that new mums and expectant mums are supposed to go round hauling cots home in their eighth and ninth month of pregnancy and then putting them up. Frankly, she ought to think a little bit more about what she wishes for her constituents.