Road Safety Bill [HL]

I thank the noble Baroness. I was making the technical point that I thought that that definition needed to be clarified. I am sorry to say that I do not agree with Amendment No. 80, tabled by my noble friend Lord   Dundee. Local authorities are so busy doing reports on pretty well everything all the time that they should have discretion on whether to take on the burden of an annual report if there is a local demand for it. I am always reluctant to give extra burdens to local authorities. We legislate all the time and push work on to local authorities, but we never give them the money to do what we have asked them to do and the cost goes to the council tax payer. I thought that Amendment No. 82 was very surprising, as the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley said. I did not understand that there were no regulations already. It is important that there should be regulations. Since we started on the Bill, the noble Lord, Lord Davies, has repeatedly made the point that speed cameras are supposed to be safety cameras. As for Marlow Hill in Wycombe, I have now seen photos, and I realise that I know it. It is an unbelievable hill. It is hard to believe that people can ask drivers not to wish to put their foot on the accelerator to try to get up it. At the moment, it is apparently the local authority that has the right to decide what speed to put where. That needs to be considered. I have no further comments.