Road Safety Bill [HL]

The reason why I have not covered it is that various members of the Committee intercede as I am developing my argument, and I do not get that far. Now that the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, has resumed his seat, I can address myself to Amendment No. 76. Before I do so, I am reminded by the other interjection that I have not replied to the noble Earl, Lord Mar and Kellie. He wanted to know whether we would be able to recycle the devices that we extract from the cars. So far as we are aware, it will not be possible to recycle those devices for other purposes, so we have a straight loss with regard to that factor. However, we regard the gains from road safety as being such that that loss may need to be sustained. It may still be possible to use a device that has both the GPS and the detector, if the detector can be put out of use and the GPS part of the system can continue, so the impact may not be quite so drastic. That would depend on the technology of the device in question. I hope that the noble Earl will not press me too much further on technology; I am fast getting out of my depth.