Road Safety Bill [HL]

Without wishing to bring this one to an end, we have had a very interesting debate. I said right at the beginning that no one wanted to do anything to permit the award of the maximum number of points to anyone who had really committed an offence that deserved it. My noble friend Lord Lyell summed it up well when he said that when you put a mandatory six points, are we sure that we are not sometimes going to catch the innocent? That is something that this debate has been going around and around. I hope that the Minister will take advice and reflect on the matter. I repeat that no one—certainly on these Benches—wants to stop someone who actually breaks the law and deserves six points getting them. We want to make certain that there be no miscarriages of justice in any way by having the mandatory six points. I repeat that I hope that there can be some reflection on and discussion about our debate for the future. With that, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 22 agreed to.